Thread: Driven shoot, Northland-style

Yeh read some junk in the paper about the authority’s not being able to destroy them unless able to prove it was those animals in question 🙄, the farmer however is allowed to control them on his/her property. The bitch on heat is a good idea, then sit up on the hill with the long gun

Shenstone! Now that's a blast from the past.
When I was a teenager I used to spend holidays there. It was shenstone development block back then 400 acres of pasture 1000 or more of gum swamp and then sand dunes to 90 mile beach.
Wally Wymer was the manager, ( early 70s) he had an old maori lady Mrs Abraham as house keeper, she used to go home to te hapua on weekends leaving a huge pot of stew.
We had the first true 4wd tractor a same in the area and often got called out to pull tourist busses out of the tepaki stream.
Pigs were the problem then and where few days even over lambing there would be guys hunting.
Good luck, as i recall the occasional pig dog went missing, most were probably killed by pigs but some probably took a liking to living alone.
I still remember the phone no after all these years.

The old dog rangers used to carry the now banned ruger 44 carbine as a dog control measure!!

there is very interesting chapter in one of my later hunting books...hunting with the best I THINK.....guy close to Taupo who had dog problems,used to chase them on horsback and into them with mini 14 and 30 round mag...just kept shooting till they were hit,he said when hit they are like goats and just stop and scream allowing finish off....not a pretty thought but worried stock sure isnt pretty either.
hopefully member here who going out will keep us posted WITHOUT PHOTOS of how they get on.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

there is very interesting chapter in one of my later hunting books...hunting with the best I THINK.....guy close to Taupo who had dog problems,used to chase them on horsback and into them with mini 14 and 30 round mag...just kept shooting till they were hit,he said when hit they are like goats and just stop and scream allowing finish off....not a pretty thought but worried stock sure isnt pretty either.
hopefully member here who going out will keep us posted WITHOUT PHOTOS of how they get on.

I went up to Shenstone for Friday night. We were out for the whole night, 4.30pm through to 7.30am. I never thought it could get so cold in the North, it was bloody freezing just sitting and waiting. It seems that the dogs are getting smarter. They have broken up into much smaller groups, mainly singles and pairs. There were about 5 of us out that night some dogs were seen but they bolted the moment there was even a hint of human presence. The next day with the help of some of the locals we tried to flush them out with a human chain working through a large section of the bush edge. No dogs were even seen, it looks like they are traveling a fair distance back to wherever they spend the day holed up. I really do take my hat off to John, Anne-Marie, Jason and the others up there who have been up all night for multiple night in succession as well as continuing to run the farm. I plan to be back up there this week week to help out again.

I'm gonna don my flame suit and suggest 1080 laced goat meat or something like they do with dingoes and wild dogs in Aus

bitch in season......

And tethered judas goats

"Donated terminal cows as bait" will get the urban public going betcha

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3003...id=app-android

They will have no idea

Here is the actual wording. Note is says either seize or destroy, you cant catch the dog then kill it.
I don't know the legal definition of "running at large" is, I have heard somewhere (maybe not reliable) that the dog only has to be loose in the paddock and doesn't have to be in the act of attacking the stock.

60 Seizure or destruction of dog running at large among stock or poultry
(1) The owner of any stock or poultry or that owner’s agent or employee, or any constable, dog control officer, or dog ranger acting at the request of that owner, may forthwith either seize or destroy any dog running at large among that stock or poultry.
(2) Where, under subsection (1), a dog is seized by any person other than a dog control officer or dog ranger, that person shall ensure that the dog is returned to its owner or delivered into the custody of a dog control officer or dog ranger.