Thread: Had to be done

I think a few of us older buggers have seen this kind of thing a fair bit over the years. It is the absolute pits when a crew like this turn up where you are already camped. Sadly me and my wife have learnt to accept that it will happen from time to time, and we will simply pull up the tent pegs, pack up camp and move on without a second thought. One benefit is over the years we have learnt to camp very light. But it’s bloody annoying.

We cannot kid ourselves about how prevalent this kind of thing is. I’ve posted on here before about a night I spent at the Catlins Inn Owaka, about 5 yrs ago, on a road trip finding interesting new public land to hunt. Saturday night, All Blacks vs Australia, probably two dozen of the young hunters and their girls in the pub before the local pig hunting competition at the rugby club the next morning.

They got totally shitfaced and then at closing time went out spotlighting in the forestry up Morris Saddle Road.

Three utes, all drunk as fuck, none of the staff or locals in the pub batted an eyelid.

I slept in the little lean to behind the pub and visited the pig hunting competition the next morning, some of them were there, looking very very shabby indeed.

I hate to say this, and you know where I’m coming from, but it is part of the culture in some areas and in some parts of the general community. I’ve got a few more war stories like this, from out the back of Raetihi, one time up Watershed Road in the Wanganui, just recently on the east side of the Tararuas. Was with the family that time, middle of the night, very very bloody annoying. And what goes on on private land would make your hair stand on end.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

. And what goes on on private land would make your hair stand on end.

Theres a time when the general public of hunters must split or ackowledge the boundarys for this hunting Caper ,
it happen here Also.

Im talking about the Private behaviour that is basically " illegal hunting " anywhere else in the World, outside those fences....
the piss ups, the shoot ups, the bomb ups, the Spotlighting / walk lighting and now Thermalling, the burn outs , etc..... it all stems from Private land hunting, and washes out into the Public land sector , in which a legitimate Recreational hunter is a stakeholder by paying their fees to use that land as recreational hunting areas.

inside of this , we should be all aware, is "game animals" and under that comes a whole heap of Rules which is set to allow us to do what we are doing , 'walking around with rifles persuing game animals' .......

the private these days i pretty much have written off, it is a free for all, the Deer are seen as Pests inside those fences and with that comes the Open slather effect........

i just wish these "Legends" with their thermals would quite literally Fuck off onto Private land and use their expensive tool as a massive Help to the local farmers , by this, Targetting and killing as many deer as they want, but using the thermal to target problematic Dogs ........

instead they are all up in the "Recreational hunting areas" / National Parks , slinking around like closet poofs , targetting a Recreational hunters trophy deer...... an nothing else.

thats pretty laaaaaame ....

the "hunts" lost, but its up to Us to re portray that "Hunt" as the single most important aspect, especially if we are Youtubing......... thats where the kids are learning 100%..... it is not by going out for a hunt with the old local guru on his farm, its going over the Shoulder of guys like JJKB, Dooleys, the plethora of long range sniper guys in camo, JE wild man, etc, so instead of using the Social media as a Show Off platform, use it as an educational or Real, with some good ethic an responsible behaviour shown will go a long way an get a better Rep than blowin over the baby velvets at 572y for content fillers....
in aus we have youtubers, Thermalling off camera, creating "hunting videos"........... what the fucks