Thread: Better Hunting - free online NZ hunter training programme by the Game Animal Council

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

It looks like a great initiative to me so far from what little time I have had to look through it.

If having rangers stops the dicks who shoot up road signs in the back country or ripping off gates that are in place to save areas getting damaged in winter as happened last year in the St James then I'm all for it, those dicks should have their firearms and vehicles crushed in front of them

that is the job of the police - warranted Officers of DOC and this GAC have very limited powers on private land or public roads -the exceptions on private land is shooting of protected species under the Wildlife Act and little else - they do not have powers in respect to shooting up signs or ripping gates of - thats vandalism and its a police matter -

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

that is the job of the police - warranted Officers of DOC and this GAC have very limited powers on private land or public roads -the exceptions on private land is shooting of protected species under the Wildlife Act and little else - they do not have powers in respect to shooting up signs or ripping gates of - thats vandalism and its a police matter -

I should add signs within DOC managed Public land yes a DOC warranted Officer can act but a person appointed as a Warranted Officer under the GAC act probably not - likely not under the scope of their warrant