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View Poll Results: District with highest hind numbers in South Island

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  • North Canterbury/Marlborough

    5 45.45%
  • South Canterbury

    1 9.09%
  • West Coast

    2 18.18%
  • Otago

    3 27.27%
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Thread: Highest hind numbers in South Island

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    District with highest hind numbers in South Island

    Where does everyone's experience tell them the best districts in the South Island are for getting out and shooting some meat animals?

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    None of the above
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    270 is a harmonic divisor number[1]
    270 is the fourth number that is divisible by its average integer divisor[2]
    270 is a practical number, by the second definition
    The sum of the coprime counts for the first 29 integers is 270
    270 is a sparsely totient number, the largest integer with 72 as its totient
    Given 6 elements, there are 270 square permutations[3]
    10! has 270 divisors
    270 is the smallest positive integer that has divisors ending by digits 1, 2, …, 9.

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    Why do you need the one with highest numbers?

    Only need to find one a trip? Or plan on shooting a mob?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Average-Lad View Post
    Where does everyone's experience tell them the best districts in the South Island are for getting out and shooting some meat animals?
    Would you like grid references with that? I'll find you a few if you want.......
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    Every where farms and stations have stopped access to public DOC land or a good days or twos walk to access it with no WARO.
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    Not this part of North Canta we had WARO for years

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    Early March I put 4 in, does that count?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Average-Lad View Post
    Where does everyone's experience tell them the best districts in the South Island are for getting out and shooting some meat animals?
    The more animals in a area, the more ears and eyes and can make for harder hunting.
    Pick a spot and go for it. Ask your local doc for areas or even your local hunting shop to get you started. Join the local deer stalkers.
    I am sure SI is like NI at the moment where its never been any easier to harvest a game animal at the moment.
    Soon as that spring growth starts check out slips and river flats early and late evening
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    The last spot I shot one was good for me.
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    Curious. What is the purpose of the pole? Are you looking for an area where a cull would be most beneficial ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Average-Lad View Post
    Where does everyone's experience tell them the best districts in the South Island are for getting out and shooting some meat animals?
    If you are in ChCh go to the Pinchgut and out to Cattlepeak stream, but none of the Back steaks and boned out hind quarters leave half the meat on the hill BS

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    Rather a weird thing to vote on as its just conjecture and guess work...............oh like the last election coool bottom of the north island has a stringy old haggered looking one....
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    No trouble finding them in the Canterbury area, and have my own spot x's sorted like everyone else. But in the year I've been hunting in SI I've been surprised at numbers being quite low. I often see articles about certain area's being overrun with deer but am a bit skeptical. Given the pressure from govt to manage animals I wonder if us Christchurch based people should be going further afield to target area's where numbers at too high.

    I've found DOC to be super helpful and try to routinely give them a call about area's I'm going into. I can't say the same about deer stalkers, have been a member for a couple years and don't rate it as worthwhile, that said I'm pretty inconsistent with getting to the meetings.

    Just to be clear, no plans on doing a rambo and gunning down a mob. Have carried all the meat from every animal out. Don't want your spot x's, if by voting for 'Otago' or 'South Canterbury' you think you're giving your spot away then don't vote.
    Last edited by Average-Lad; 08-09-2022 at 10:15 AM.
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