Thread: Alpine Helicopters culling tahr

Originally Posted by R93

But you can't really moan about it when 95% of recreational hunters don't give a flying fuck about management or trophy potential. 99% wouldn't know how to assess a potential trophy deer when in its first couple years. The majority also wouldn't give a fuck and just shoot anyway so they have a kill. Or tney have the attitude if I don't shoot it now, someone else will.

Meat hunters using thermals, spotlights or just killing trophy stags in early velvet is just plain selfish and incompetent imo. I despise it and see it all the time here on the coast. If your after just meat why not just wait for a more suitable animal.

There is a lot of education and attitude change needed at the recreational level before any form of successful management can happen in NZ imo.





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I would not know where to start assessing a potential trophy but then I am not trophy hunter. I have no issue with trophy hunting as if if that floats your boat go for it, its just not my thing.
Eating .............now thats my thing so I have no issue myself tipping over pretty much anything using any method (excepting hinds when they have fawns at foot) solely based on how much meat I can recover.
For example if I could either
a) shoot a hind/yearling a long way from my transport and only recover 1/2 the usable meat and leave the rest on the hill
or
b) a stag (a goodie or otherwise) even in velvet where the whole animal could be recovered and utilised with no waste
then for me its a no brainer the stag would be all over rover.
I have let animals go as I simply don't think I can recover enough meat from where they are at
Thermal, Spotlights etc all have their uses too.

Left over dog bones


For those that say its not sporting I would say a sport is a contest between 2 equal parties or teams with same equipment used by both sides.