Thread: the OFF TOPIC to Stags shot 21 (discussion of wild animal management)

A very interesting thread that has given me much to ponder.
I don't shoot hinds from the start of November until the end of February, although i have shot the odd dry hind out in open country when i can see she is not milking.
I am all for managed areas with a tag system, for example you pay a nominal fee say $25 to hunt the Rakaia are and you get 3 hind tags and one stag tag but the the stag must have a minimum of 6 points on one antler. I hunted areas like this in Canada and the antler quality was far superior to the areas where there were any antlered bull tags. The problem with this system in NZ is that it requires self policing and perhaps some legislation change.
Shhoting deer and walking away is not much fun, i have done it on a few farms over the years just to get numbers down and i wouldn't advocate for anyone to do this but if you are after meat shoot two hinds instead of one and take the best bits.
It seems that here in NZ we have have a boom and bust cycle of population management, in the not too distant past we were talking about leave the hinds for breeding and now we as hunters have to start knocking over hinds for the good of the Habitat.
Has anyone made a Shoot 5 hinds for every stag sticker yet?