Thread: Molesworth

Originally Posted by gimp

For 52 hours flying in the Clarence now you'd get closer to 15,000 goats

Utterly incorrect, more like 30,000. It's bad in parts and DOC do a skim through in a 500 occasionally, expensive and in the big picture ineffective. The last time goats were reduced to low numbers in there it was because of foot cullers

Originally Posted by Puddleduk

Utterly incorrect, more like 30,000. It's bad in parts and DOC do a skim through in a 500 occasionally, expensive and in the big picture ineffective. The last time goats were reduced to low numbers in there it was because of foot cullers

There are still ground hunters working in there regularly taking 300-700/ block /trip.

Originally Posted by Shearer

There are still ground hunters working in there regularly taking 300-700/ block /trip.

DOC shooters, six I think, flew into Molesworth on morning of 04/11/24. They used the same chopper as us before we flew out of Upper Spray. We used to see bugger-all goats over most of station in the 80's-90's, bit different now. There's always been heaps of goats in the Clarence. Rafted down the river from Accomodation House back in 80's, we all ran out of ammo from memory before we got to Gibson Stream. Two .222's, one 270 and a 308 in the group from memory. Good times.