Thread: Newshub attacking Sika

Originally Posted by hebe

I also think a culture change in hunting may factor in too. A lot of my generation aren’t into bush hunting. Not bothered on learning how to do it. Sika in the Kawekas are mostly bush deer and it can be low percentage hunting sometimes.
A lot of people want easy deer on slips and tops. Not hard won deer from the back of nowhere. There are still plenty that do, but the number of guys I meet in there with long range rigs is easily double what I would meet in the more heavily bushed country in there.
Surely that has some impact. I think the park has more pressure than ever but its concentrated on the open stuff more so than in the bush. Its still relatively simple to find a bush catchment with no one in it both in the front and back country. But finding a set of tops that doesnt have a hunting party there from September through to May is a little more challenging.

Just my thoughts.

I agree with this
All my hunting years ago was bush hunting. Now i hardly go bush. No need to deer a every where. Also the headache of parking at a road end or on the side of the road.
I shot a deer in the bush yesterday (doc land) and its been a while. Thankfully this deer one of three was the dumbest deer ever come across
I do my best to target hinds during the year up until mid November then will target yearlings now for 3 or 4 months.