Thread: Illegal hunting..does it bother you?

Originally Posted by deer243

Unfortunately as we all know a number in our hunting community hunt illegally.
Be it spotlighting DOC, using thermal gear in Doc or hunting without permission on private property. As it happens to be as i know other hunters, forestry workers and other people in
the know i get to hear inforamation that i rather not know and frankly laterly its really pissing me off.

Ok, people are going to spotlight areas, hunt deer in DOC using thermal gear but when you know they shouldnt be and they hunting the areas you hunt in a illegal matter and
these guys are out there spotlighting the place up and doing thermal missions its really annoying me.
They basicly getting easy deer in a place i do hard yards in and making my hunting harder than it should be . Now i dont mind if other people hunt spots i go, i happy tell or take people to DOC blocks and tell them to go for it.
But i want it a fair playing field, good luck to them if they get out there and get a deer but these guys that doing it with spotlights andthermal i have no time for now.

Fact is its annoying me that much i feel like doing something about it. still, do i really want to be a nark? Not really, but people should play by the rules and its having a effect on some of my hunting spots
because people want it the easy way and do it illegally.
Im talking about DOc, and yes, theres a little bit oif a jealous feeling about it as sometimes i wish i could do that but i never do it and i dont see why these guys should be doing it in my neck of the woods.

I hate to say it , but i really dont want hear about the law breakers now as i feel its time something was done and im only going to be pissed off for so long.

hey man, good to see this thread pop up on a kiwi forum.... its only just becoming 'known' just how the illegal harvest effects the legal recreational hunter.... esp in terms of 'trophies' or the older larger deer that everyone secretly wants, however they justify it..
In Australia i mean, it is beyond a joke to be honest.....

i hear ya an fell ya , my feeling is it isnt the same old story of sit back an dofuck all about it but 'complain' about it or let it deter you, (not you personally) but instead Report it to some bastard, IN Aus ,we have Police and also a "Game Managament Awfulrity " where we can report shit cunts and poachers, No it doesnt often lea to anything , if anything we hope it gets logged and the info soon adds up to paint a clearer picture that something amiss.... its obvious in places.

there is so many different sorts of illegal shit goin on, either a leuisurely spotlight, blow en em, a specific stag spotlight drive thru alpine country, walk lighting now replaced with thermal and day time thermal is also of note to claim as not in the name of a fair chase in my opinion, seen it first hand, its a piece of piss-proove me wrong-

my thoughts are genuine hunters stamp it out thru the community...... call them out, hang on, dont do that, Dob em in. fuck em.

Game animals, Game Regs and Game Rules...... Pay for a hunting Permit , play by the rules. simple. Do it differently, Ya taking the Game from Me (Us) YOU. an its becoming an issue in AU now interms of what animals are surviving an what isnt, where an the back log of big ol deer is dryin up pretty good , compared to how it should look if everyone did it legally....

an we dont have mad cunt heli businesses here... farkk