Thread: Aussies and Wapiti

Originally Posted by bigbear

Its not just the wap blocks we should be worried about, As i said i think there needs to be a new game animal foundation set up. The permit money goes them and they run the whole permit system on all doc land and manage all game animals. All 1080 programs and culls will need to go through the foundation with 18month notice just stay
The only thing i will say is once NZers start paying is the price will only keep going up. It might start at stay $100 season license for 12months but next minute it will be a $1000 and it will become a rich mans sport
Just my thoughts

yeah man i can see that happening here. we have a good area to a fiord block type permit, as u guys do in alps i guess, but have it for a little fee to go toward things, an make the period 3 month or whatever, maybe one so a more up to date idea of whats in there an who, but not a booking system per say, lots to learn from a block type approach to "limited entry hunting" you could call the national park from here on in... but now the prize is gone theres no real Special about it. unlike ya Waps in Fiord.

Same thing with Aus that $50 last few years, now with COVID the "GMA" / not foundation, govt run lollipop authority over deer huntin/ are issuing FREE hunting next year right.... right after fires, culls an all this... i bet you, i will put money on a over haul now hunting is restricted here, that it becomes a Pay for it, an pay more for it for "old historic areas" which rigns true to ya Wanaka ballot.... o much to learn from NZ with AU but au wants no bar of a introduced GAME animal or managing them....

its fucked.

Also if a game animal foundation was set up once it had any surplus money it could used to educate hunters on game management also used on these back country huts that a slowly getting pulled out cause they aren't on a great walk.

Unfortunately am not the person to take this further

Does anyone know if that wombat Greentree ever made a donation back to the rescue helicopter after it pulled him out of the hills TWICE in New Zealand? He sure seemed to get a lot of miles out of promoting the fact he's a dumbass whilst professing to be the opposite for Instagram likes

i cant speak for the fella in question but you're not assuming all Aussies are of that Calibre, are ya?
theres a young one who is basically a shadow of the man in question, he been caught once, i thnk he hunted with the fella from the Timber stag club (curley fella) on a swap hunt sika for sambar, they are the ones who will get ya waps in feb with the thermals..

Cos instagram selfies are worth so much these days, ya know..

that selfie proclaims the pinnicle of the great southern trophies, dont mind how it succumbed to the shot.

Originally Posted by bigbear

Also if a game animal foundation was set up once it had any surplus money it could used to educate hunters on game management also used on these back country huts that a slowly getting pulled out cause they aren't on a great walk.

Unfortunately am not the person to take this further

much like here if there is no hut, there is no want to go there.
no hutters, no hunters.
im fairly sure DoC dont give a fuck abotu your hunting recreations either

As an Australian that drew first period last year and got the call not to come the day before we were due to fly out, we pay $130 to enter the ballot and $500 to accept the block.
Roughly five times the amount New Zealanders pay if the amounts haven't changed.
I didn't enter this year as I don't think we will be allowed over there for quite some time.