Thread: NZDA worth joining.

Is NZDA worth joining?
Hell yes. If it wasn't for these fellas giving up their time to teach my boy how to hunt through the HUNTS course, we would not have achieved what we have.
All I knew about hunting etc was what I'd read, or learnt through getting it wrong. He was always hassling me to take him out, and 9/10 times ended in disappointment. Through these fellas, we've managed to achieve success on places we wouldn't have been able to hunt on previously. The instructors have been very free with information to help out 'newbies'.
Whatever the sub was sounded a lot at the time, but to put it in context, was less than one wasted 'armed tramp'. Every club has members with their own agenda, but surely you're big enough to make your own decisions.
Everywhere there's blowhards and gohards, you don't have to be with them.
The cheap huts, access and organised hunts etc would cover subs.
The HUNTS course is the best money I've spent. It's kept the boy interested in not just hunting, but the whole package. Ethics is something that's needs reinforcing, and the more you see it around you, the more you practice it yourself. He's happy to watch animals now rather than just 'blow them away'. Hopefully this will cross over into real life as well.
Well that's my view for all it's worth