Thread: Hunter shot in Kaimanawa ranges

Originally Posted by TeRei

Does it matter what you are wearing. Identify your target.

Does it matter? Seems that in thick bush, where for whatever reason a lot of guys (like me) don’t wear hiviz, it does matter. Because every year we have the same small but disastrous hunter-shoots-hunter nightmares. The id your target mantra isn’t working for a tiny percentage of hunters, with the same consequences over and over. Never has worked 100%, seems like it never will. So the next step is legislation like many of the US states, thou shalt wear blaze orange to a certain level of coverage. Which no one really wants to see happen, because many of us balk at it.

Ask your wife / girlfriend / mother, whoever, how would you like me as a hunter to be dressed in thick bush? I make my kids wear blue hats and blaze orange singlets matter of course, why the fuck don’t I wear it myself???

Anyway, as pointed out above, the Taupo team pulled off an amazing rescue today and that’s worth recognising big time.