Thread: NZ Whitetail situation

Originally Posted by R93

The Wakatipu herd has good genes.
One of my best mates shot one 3 or 4 yrs ago any N American would be proud of.
Think it's number 3 or 4 in NZ and the best 8pt buck shot to date.
The 2 or 3 above it are at least10 pointers and from the same herd. A few rumours surround one or 2 of them and how they were taken.

Hopefully we can get to a point one day to change certain things in how we manage our game animals in NZ. Doc and people educated by them are extemely deluded and can't see that things will never be able to go back to what it was like before they were introduced.
Instead of embracing the potential of our game animals they waste tons of the tax payers money trying to flog a dead horse imo.

The Wapiti are a bit different in that they will always have their gene pool compromised by reds. The bush to tussock/flats ratio in the region will ensure that too many red deer will survive any effort to reduce them to a point where the Waps will come back to where they were after initial release.

Back when venison was in full swing well over 5000 deer were shot out of the Haast region alone, every year, year after year.
Hell, we were getting 2500 a year not that long ago and that was on a quota type system.
That to me is an indication on how resilient reds are once established.







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Yes we would never get back to pure blood in the wild but with current control of red type animals and release of high percentage wap type animals the situation would improve no doubt.