Thread: New world record

Originally Posted by P38

Think Tens of Thousands $$$$

There is plenty of people willing to pay, that's why these "Shooting" businesses exist.

Cheers
Pete

Try hundreds of thousands. Tower Farms sold one at $138,000 this year. Crowley's top deer "Nixon" went hunting for $300,000, that might have been it!

Hes probably done us all a favour by taking it out of the gene pool. But the best bit is he paid to do it.

Originally Posted by nelpop

Hes probably done us all a favour by taking it out of the gene pool. But the best bit is he paid to do it.

There was never going to be much risk of that one making it into the public herd gene pool

As a foreigner looking to come to NZ and hunt/hike the area I thought about hiring a guide but after seeing the prices, I am better off finding some decent folks and buying them beer (for some of the prices I saw I could get a whole town drunk!). If i get general directions from them awesome, If I get a deer great, if not then I will at least have seen some awesome landscapes. At least that's how I grew up hunting, look for a good area way out that few want to hunt and spend the time exploring on the way. It's not about killing everything but the experience.

Originally Posted by krazykarl26

As a foreigner looking to come to NZ and hunt/hike the area I thought about hiring a guide but after seeing the prices, I am better off finding some decent folks and buying them beer (for some of the prices I saw I could get a whole town drunk!). If i get general directions from them awesome, If I get a deer great, if not then I will at least have seen some awesome landscapes. At least that's how I grew up hunting, look for a good area way out that few want to hunt and spend the time exploring on the way. It's not about killing everything but the experience.

Thats is much like how most of us feel. There is aways a market for the big $$$ same as cars have a market for old fellows with money to own ferraris that have never seen a race track but the General population still moves about in corrollas and utes...