Thread: Herd management and Playing our part

this is really being pushed as of late...I guess tharmageddon has been a bit of a wake up call for us all...control numbers or it will be taken from our hands.
looking back over my kills from last 20 years,it is hind heavy,Im a bush hobbit at heart and it just works out that way. about to head out for roar hunt,if a hind is in front of me it will be interesting what I end up doing.my wife gives me shit about "looking at pretty antlers" due to leaving velvet stags to grow bigger and not shooting them for her to eat......
Im at stage of life where shooting large fawn is better than large stag,I can carry all meat out and it tastes great.
there is still protectionism going on from private land alongside DOC controlled blocks,heck I even got accused of poaching 1km plus outside of block across river and up through gorsey hillside...WHF would a fella bother doing that for??? I had spent pleasant day mousing around in thick bush with dog...its our happy place,a deer is a bonus.
talking to local chap last week it seems a certain landholder has gone all voodoo on anyone hunting alongside his block,the police seem to be on speedial for him,and they respond too....pity the copper I DEALT WITH didnt take 2 seconds to actually consider logistics of getting from where person was sighted to where we stood having discussion in the time frame involved.....
an encounter like that tends to make me reluctant to go back to area to hunt....typeing that explains my procrastinating now,I have all next week off yet struggling for motivation to get ready and head out door.