Thread: Hey all you Wellington slackers

Id be investing in a cross bow

I watched a guy on youtube shooting pigs with a .50cal PCP air rifle, he was able to knock over several at a time it is so quiet.
Still discharging a firearm in a public place but if no one knows....

Obvious wordings.....
A friendly red stag in velvet watching the photographer.

Originally Posted by Nathan F

Id be investing in a cross bow

Why not a compound bow? Far fewer $$$ if you look at like-for-like performance. But you are on the right track - super sharp pointy sticks barely even disturb the animals. A friend in SA shot an impala. It jumped like it had been spooked by the shot, looked around and then carried on browsing. He actually nocked a second arrow, because he thought he had missed, (and you pay for the animal you shoot at even if you miss over there...) After a few minutes, the animal sat, then rolled over and expired - turns out he made a perfect heart lung shot.

Well gwyn the CEO of nzda was at our club room yesterday.

He is in the process of negotiating access for nzda members to waikato, Thames valley council owned bush.

Ideally if it is a success then they will try to get every council on board.

Deer in the same place ?



Same clearing as the above previously posted photo of the velvet stag taken some 10 months ago.
Firstly on the clearing there was a hind and a yearly fawn, then they disappeared and then "another presumably different hind" came out? These new photos taken December 2021.

Not seeing many deer at the moment, but in a 1km walk with the dog last night I counted 73 rabbits

Originally Posted by video hunter

Attachment 174835

Obvious wordings.....
A friendly red stag in velvet watching the photographer.

ok im not as clued up as some you guys on here am i wrong or is that stag a bit sika-ish?

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

Well gwyn the CEO of nzda was at our club room yesterday.

He is in the process of negotiating access for nzda members to waikato, Thames valley council owned bush.

Ideally if it is a success then they will try to get every council on board.

if theres even a whiff of deer in the coromandels DOC send in the cullers.......so thames council would be a bust.....the rest of waikato tho, bring it on

Cant be as bad as Garth Eyles item on NZ Herald about mobs of deer destroying Hawkes Bay and a mob of 30-40 deer in Rissington. What a moron.

Originally Posted by TeRei

Cant be as bad as Garth Eyles item on NZ Herald about mobs of deer destroying Hawkes Bay and a mob of 30-40 deer in Rissington. What a moron.

Thanks for that article, link here https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-ba...RYJD5A43IHEQE/
I know Garth from the days when he was on the HBRC Land Management. What he's saying makes sense to me, the deer do a heap of damage, and big mobs are increasingly being seen. One of the HBRC biosecurity guys showed me a picture he'd taken of well over 100 reds in one mob on a farm near Tutira. I have not yet seen more than 20 at a time at my place, but 5 years ago there were none. What specific part of Garths article makes you class him as a moron?

Originally Posted by Ben Waimata

Thanks for that article, link here https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-ba...RYJD5A43IHEQE/
I know Garth from the days when he was on the HBRC Land Management. What he's saying makes sense to me, the deer do a heap of damage, and big mobs are increasingly being seen. One of the HBRC biosecurity guys showed me a picture he'd taken of well over 100 reds in one mob on a farm near Tutira. I have not yet seen more than 20 at a time at my place, but 5 years ago there were none. What specific part of Garths article makes you class him as a moron?

I always wonder why these landowners contact NZDA so that they can arrange organiser hunts on these properties. It would be an obvious solution.

Originally Posted by scotty

ok im not as clued up as some you guys on here am i wrong or is that stag a bit sika-ish?

Who knows, perhaps you are right - perhaps you are wrong. Maybe someone else can comment on your question for you.

Who knows what's lurking out there in the NZ bushes at the present time?

To those that like Red deer photos....



Another clearing not far away from the previous photos, more Wellington Red deer.

They"ve cleaned out my vege garden again.