Thread: Expensive wallabies

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/mpi-de...allaby-control

Mighty expensive wallaby hunting at $153000 per wallaby

Not surprised

They are obviously getting a ride to the sort of areas that they are turning up now.
I can understand plenty getting across the hydro dams up the Waitaki, but the other areas its not very likely they hopped their way there.

$34,000 spent on ground shooting..over 2 million on survelance...... and the numbers shot in canterbury.....the Timaru deerstalkers branch used to achive close to that on thier own each year....add in the number shot by aorangi recreation mob and it would make that number into chicken feed,private shooters far out shoot the goverment paid fellas and we get nothing for it and barriers put in way to doing it easier....closes seasons,no dog blocks,no using artificial lights just for 3.
oh and NO friggen gorse spraying along access tracks.....that would be $$$$ very well spent,cheap as chips for a whirly bird to fly along with spray gun out the side or a boom and keep a 10mtr strip clear...Ive spent 30 years keeping hook bush track open by hand,even asked DOC if they could spray it..no $$$ they said..

$2.3 spent just looking at Wallibies?

Fantastic!

they were in trotters gorge some time back...there are some by glenorchy...I believe....
Ive shot them within 10kms of Geraldine ..they do hop quite a long way,drought will push them further.

$28million is getting spent down here over 5 yrs to get rid of the roos.New fence from Lake Belmore to Lake Tekapo is going to be built sometime.Stop the roos getting into national parks.Interesting times ahead for the roos.

$34k on ground shooting (some of that my dad would have collected..)n and $2.3m on suits sitting in an office that wouldnt know what a wallaby looked like if it hit them in the face

Lots around hanging rock area,Kakahu forest fill of roos r too.

Certainly a good earner for local helicopter operators.

Im just gonna put it out there.........the fence wont work! And the majority of the $28m will be lost in compliance costs with fuck all actually spent on the ground. 6665 is a very accurate number too. Would be nice if they actually included the numbers shot by recreational hunters for free. Pretty sure it would exceed that number, our local DA deals to about 4-500, I know one landowner that was getting 80 per week, and the hunters on his place would be close to equalling that.

kakahu forest has SOME roos,wouldnt say its full of them...well 8 years ago when I got invite to spotlight in it we saw 4..all were shot.

Originally Posted by Husky1600#2

Im just gonna put it out there.........the fence wont work! And the majority of the $28m will be lost in compliance costs with fuck all actually spent on the ground. 6665 is a very accurate number too. Would be nice if they actually included the numbers shot by recreational hunters for free. Pretty sure it would exceed that number, our local DA deals to about 4-500, I know one landowner that was getting 80 per week, and the hunters on his place would be close to equalling that.

I know 250+ A NIGHT is achievable with boring regularity....

This is a good time to remind anyone with a wallaby problem on their farm or forest, go apply for P1 endorsement! Wallabies are recognised as our major emerging pest animal and the Regional Councils have been hassling the Police to get more semi autos back onto wallaby infested farms. So, if you have wallabies and want an AR15, go apply now. Conversely if you want an AR15, go buy a farm in a wallaby area.

The fence on the western side of the river is say nearly roos proof,odd rabbit hole.Only from Benmore to pukakie river road needs shut off,Marry burn stream and from Patterson ponds to canel and canel Bridge at Tekapo.Dont need millions for a new fence.