Thread: Latest NZ Hunter Mag

I'm just wondering what you shoot this time off year as hinds are in milk stags are in velvet that only leaves yearling hinds it doesn't worry me as I only hunt for meat & the spot I hunt most off the time doesn't seem to hold stags & I don't shoot hinds in milk but isn't it better to shoot a velvet stag than a hind & the fawn staving to death AS LONG AS THEY TAKE ALL THE MEAT OFF THE STAG

The topic was about game management - stags don't breed. hinds do. This is where WARO and aerial culling come into play if the population gets out of control with excessive high numbers. Aside from hunting on the back of a station/farm, you shouldn't have a problem finding deer to harvest if you access public lands especially in the South Island at the moment. The NZDA throughout NZ have a very good Hunts programme to get you started. Social media wasn't around in my day, so we did the hard yards looking at a map and walking into the hills to get a deer. People nowadays are asking where to go to get these deer! Go figure...