Thread: Tekapo Rabbits Ltd

Got sent this in an attachment today......

I used to sell Hares to a pet food processor in North Canterbury, I always got enough to pay for fuel, ammo, a couple of dozen beer.

That will make a few guys happy down that way.

Ive always thought its not worth the hassle.

I used to think of it as a fun night out spotlighting, all expenses paid for and usually $30-50 extra afterwards. average night earned me about $100-120

It's hard work to make decent money. Long nights, cold, boring after you've shot a few hundred, lonely.

Yep but as oneshot said.

If your already doing it for fun and it pays for ammo and fuel its win win.

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I looked at it a few years back but the requirements for cooling the carcases down made it uneconomic for us. And we were bagging often 600-1000 a night. Would have cost about $6000 for us to set up and added about 6 hours for delivery each time we went out.

I make my living shooting rabbits and the odd hare, get paid 7.00 a pair for large rabbits over here, what sort of money they pay over your way ?? Hares I get 5 bucks per kilo.

We used to do this around wanaka, as the farmers already let us full our tanks from there supplies and gave us the ammo(or more accurately-a hefty amount of it) it was a nice extra as one of our group had a chiller trailer.
When we lost the use of the trailer we did the math and it was not worth us buying one-would have turned what was a fun night out once or twice a week into a mad dash to brake even.