Thread: First Helicopter Company pulls The Pin On The Tahr Cull

Originally Posted by Sideshow

They will go the extra mile be sure of that! Just to make us look bad. Here in the UK I've had more than my fair share of run in's with the anity hunting fraternity. Speaking from that personal experience I would not put it past them. Hunt Sabs are some of the worst here. Some RSBC members are just as militant, poisoning water in pens, realising of pheasant and partridge chicks and dumping of dead birds of prey on shoot's. You just need to have a look at the badger cull and the threats to life of those that have been taking part in that cull! So making up a few false email, Facebook accounts saying I'm a "hunter" and then threatening a helicopter company that is involved in the cull so we get the bad name. Yep that's pretty tame from what I have seen.

You just need to look at the trolling on line and how far people will go with that. This is no different imho. Who's to say that a few of these great people have not moved to NZ to carry on where they have left off in the original country. Or even NZ'ders that have picked up a few ideas from overseas...look how the pros get it done!

If you feel this is a little to 'conspiracy theorist' well fine.....but from my experience with antis, pragmatic is NOT a word that I would use to describe them, they will go the extra mile to get what they want!

I left in 2001 for good partly due to what you describe, pheasant beating for pocket money pretty much disappeared down south, fox hunting got banned, beagling got banned. Both fox hunting and beagling employed sevaral of my friends as pack masters and tha last big estate stopped the shoots so making redundant all the game keepers and under keepers.