Thread: Bloody Poachers!

not a sausage ,unbelievable eh. Yes the chopper was on the ground in or near whites landing I think it s called in the Taupo area .While one of the guys was off hunting and the others around the machine or near a shot went off and the pilot Lyndsay yelled get down someone is shooting at us -the tail boom was hit .When the two guys showed themselves they threaten to burn the chopper and my cowardly friends gave the keys up .A walk out and trip to the cops and a few hours later they had the keys .
Now I say my cowardly friends because they would all be saying if this happened to someone else the macho bullshit about not surrendering anything would flow like the runs and when it came to the crunch shat themselves and gave the Keys up.This happened around 12-13 years ago

Originally Posted by el borracho

not a sausage ,unbelievable eh. Yes the chopper was on the ground in or near whites landing I think it s called in the Taupo area .While one of the guys was off hunting and the others around the machine or near a shot went off and the pilot Lyndsay yelled get down someone is shooting at us -the tail boom was hit .When the two guys showed themselves they threaten to burn the chopper and my cowardly friends gave the keys up .A walk out and trip to the cops and a few hours later they had the keys .
Now I say my cowardly friends because they would all be saying if this happened to someone else the macho bullshit about not surrendering anything would flow like the runs and when it came to the crunch shat themselves and gave the Keys up.This happened around 12-13 years ago

If its whites Clearing they have been battling poachers for years.... One of the boys ended up in Jail for taking pot shots at choppers in the air if my memory serves me correct, The dudes I met walking through seamed like a good crew, Offered to horse back the gear in if we went through again....But that was years ago and before he was jailed.

same place for sure .These guys that shot the boom went free as far as the offender story went to me and I saw him a few days after they went to court

It has always appeared damned strange to me that we do apply the label Poacher to someone hunting pigs, deer, chamois, or thar.

Deer and pigs and such like are vermin according to the powers that be in this country and we allowed them to be treated as such.

I would much rather see a block crawling with hunters without permits than see it recieve the status of having a high deer population and being treated by Helicopter search and destroy missions and a regular poisoning regime as sika blocks in the Kaweka and Kaimanawa blocks recieve now.

DOC'S mission statements are quite clear about this fact "There is no place in our forests for Introduced Vermin"

Get rid of the vermin, no more problems from poachers.

Originally Posted by Scribe

It has always appeared damned strange to me that we do apply the label Poacher to someone hunting pigs or deer.

Deer and pigs are vermin according to the powers that be in this country and we have allowed them to be treated as such.

I would much rather see a block crawling with hunters without permits than see it recieve the status of having a high deer population and being treated by Helicopter search and destroy missions and a regular poisoning regime as sika blocks in the Kaweka and Kaimanawa blocks recieve now.

DOC'S mission statements are quite clear about this fact "There is no place in our forests for Introduced Vermin"

Get rid of the vermin, no more problems from poachers.

I take it you are talking on Public land without a permit? Private land is another thing again and poachers you are for sure!