Thread: Illegal hunting..does it bother you?

I dont do it but the problem is theres no deterrent so why wouldn't you

bit like getting a permit really....in 40 years of hunting Ive seen a DOC worker once...in a car park.

Yes it bothers me, but I can only control what I do. Poaching, spotlighting on DOC land, disrespect for landowners etc is happening. Those same attitudes are evident in all facets of life, but I like to think that those attitudes are a minority in the hunting fraternity. There are f-wits everywhere.
I came out of the Waioeka on Sunday after a couple of days hunting, and most of the road signs had bullet holes in them. Imagine what all the motorists think of hunters when they see that!!! Same with hut books. Non-hunters use the huts also, and some of the comments in the books are made by morons masquerading as hunters. They are not hunters assholes.

Thanks otaku.

I think most of us break the law / rules on DOC by hunting past the half hour after sunset. It is hard not to if sitting watching a face and there is still shooting light so we have to be careful about being too righteous.

I hate seeing shot up road signs and property like the farm water tank I saw on Sunday. I fully support better screening during licencing to detect dick heads. I can only hope that road signs are shot by unlicenced people with illegal firearms

I think that the relatively higher animal numbers these days has brought out a lot of people looking for an easy animal who wouldn’t bother if the hunting was harder.

I was in my late teens to early twenties in the first half of the 1980’s when deer were recovering from the golden years of helicopter hunting. You would consider yourself lucky to see a deer, and shooting one was like winning lotto. The guys you ran into in those days were hard core hunters, not the opportunists you run into nowadays.

In my experience, generally the best spots to hunt now are those that some effort is required to get into. If you can ride your motorbike there, or better still drive your 4WD, then there is likely to have been some opportunist in there.

One spot my son and I hunt takes us 9-10 hours for the round trip, walking to the spot, a couple of hours hunting and then the walk out. You don’t get too many spot lighters or guys using thermals in a spot like that. I have seen another guy from this forum in there, but he is a true hunter, and not bothered by going home empty handed.

Note to self. Must read permit more carefully. Not that I have a thermal or want one anyway.

Originally Posted by Allizdog

Note to self. Must read permit more carefully. Not that I have a thermal anyway.

Yep same boat as me then


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Yeah illegal hunting bothers me. When I'm in a private block, take an aimed shot at an animal and hear some poaching cunt yell out in panic from near by, that bothers me. Probably not as much as it bothered him going in front of the judge tho...

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It used to be perfectly legal to use thermal on doc mismanaged land just not during the hours of darkness......where was the buyback on that? ������

Do the people dissing thermals use dogs? If you want to go down the purist route .......

Originally Posted by Steve123

Do the people dissing thermals use dogs? If you want to go down the purist route .......

indicating,bailing,holding , hounding or pot licker along for a walk who helps find what youve shot??????? HUGE difference between the five.
dogs are legal on most doc administered land...thermals ARENT.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

indicating,bailing,holding , hounding or pot licker along for a walk who helps find what youve shot??????? HUGE difference between the five.
dogs are legal on most doc administered land...thermals ARENT.

Apart from bailing and holding the advantages of using thermal and dog are pretty much the same. I don't use either but do find it funny that using a dogs superior hearing and smell to help you is a good thing but using a thermal to check whether its worthwhile climbing down into a supplejack choked gully is bad.

Yep, I just re read the conditions on mine too.
Mr Pulsar was very vocal on here saying that DOC had agreed to daylight use of

And dogs have probably been used for hunting longer than rifles have been, so maybe by that logic a purist shouldn’t use a rifle.