Thread: Okay, who was it?!

fertilizing...the soil ????maybe???? be a bit chilly on the willy during a frost.

Originally Posted by Sauer

Someone tried to set up a game park type arrangement in Landsdowne Valley around the early 90’s. I believe this turned out to be a flop so the animals were released (or fence cut) into the scrubland/gorse in the valley. I was told back then that Fallow deer and pigs were released.
A guy I trained at work used to shoot Fallow on his girlfriends parents farm in the valley, and that would have been pre 97 as I left that job then. Pigs on the eastern faces of the Port Hills weren’t necessarily recent releases, and are more than likely descendants of those from Landsdowne Valley.
Just another fairytale from Stuff.

Exactly this ^

I know a guy who shot a fallow deer on the summit road, must've been around 2003ish.

Was it PT?

If there rooting the ground then I feel sorry for the worms
As for cows burning up on re-entry this must be why we have green House gases
It’s all coming together now all because some cock couldn’t stay on his side of the fence where Bruce Lee deer kung fu

Originally Posted by Rushy

a dish can run away with a spoon .

this happens you just have to understand the poetic licence......
dish = hot girl
spoon = dickhead
"the hot girl ran away with a dickhead"
happens all too often..........

Originally Posted by Sauer

Was it PT?

No it was a maniac tradie who slotted it from the truck window, with a solid slug from a shotgun.

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

... taking one out of a trap would not be commiting an offence and would be a saving in ammunition, especially considering your last 200mtr group at the range.

Are you saying @Moa Hunter that the way I shoot at 200 metres, it would be better if they were stuck in a box?! Sounds like I'd better come up for some more practice!

Loving the hard-case responses to this article, but it's a bit of a worry what some people read into the news

Originally Posted by Sauer

Was it PT?

Ask Simon as he took him, was further around towards Akaroa from memory?

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Bruce Lee deer kung fu

Forget Bruce Lee, grasshopper, CHUCK NORRIS deerfu.

Originally Posted by mopheadrob

Apparently someone's been releasing pigs into the Port Hills for future shooting, although they don't comment on how the peacocks got there...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/ne...chs-port-hills

Pretty frustrating to know there's an over-abundance of game on my doorstep but unable to access it.

i bet you $5 it was a .270 owner

Originally Posted by Rushy

Max if a cow can jump over the moon and a dish can run away with a spoon then I for one can believe that a deer can kick a peacock over a fence. Sideshow has offered up an entirely plausible explanation.

and illsecond rushys motion (as long as it aint a wet one).seriously this port hills thing .iwas approached a while ago by a sheila at work (didnt know her from Adam)who asked if i could shoot a deer for her !
seems the family have a lifestyle block out Tai _Tapu somewhere and had recently had problems with a particularly belligerent red stag whod taken a liking to their vege crop but a distinct dislike to the families kingcharles spaniel who was sent in to "chase the deer away!"(oh dearie me thinks me struggling to keep a straight face at that image).seems this stroppy bugger dined royally for a week or more before a "farming" friend of theirs converted him into freezer product-strangley enough this sheila was vegetarian so dunno who got the deer. Idid not ask about the actions of the farming friend _Ido not want to know -but me -no i wouldnt -to me using a centerfire in a urban area -NUP
I have from time to time heard of more like this though further out little river way.

wild game on the port hills -yupand guess what else is looming as a major problem for the CCC and E-Can-bloody canada geese an absolute infestation of the bastrds in the avon ,esturay ,and over in the wildlands formerly QE2 area.wonder which munchkin is gonna get the job of solving that !

Originally Posted by Sauer

Someone tried to set up a game park type arrangement in Landsdowne Valley around the early 90’s. I believe this turned out to be a flop so the animals were released (or fence cut) into the scrubland/gorse in the valley. I was told back then that Fallow deer and pigs were released.
A guy I trained at work used to shoot Fallow on his girlfriends parents farm in the valley, and that would have been pre 97 as I left that job then. Pigs on the eastern faces of the Port Hills weren’t necessarily recent releases, and are more than likely descendants of those from Landsdowne Valley.
Just another fairytale from Stuff.

I was talking to a hunter over 18 moths ago who would get both deer and pigs up there. Some very easy to get to-some not all. I got the impression they had been there for a while.

The deer and pigs swam / washed down the Selwyn river in flood to lake Ellesmere along with Fallow deer, all from Selwyn plantation Board land up by 13 mile bush. Then they followed the Halswell river to the foot of the port hills. Nothing to do with hunters
The Peacocks were released by a woman who makes hats for NZ trotting Cup at Addington Raceway. Again nothing to do with hunters

Not exactly the city part of Port Hills but there plenty of pig rooting evidence on tops above Little River

There have been a few pigs up the top near Gebbies Pass some years back and all that would needed is exclusion of honest hunters for them to build up. The article does mention the past populations. No need for any new release.

I dont know much about controlling pig numbers but a start might be to facilitate permitting of hunting with dogs in the private farmland, plantation and small areas of reserves so a trusted team could range wherever the pigs are on the day.

Fallow and goats are probably easier to control ( never heard of goats in that area) and again probably what's needed is permission for a a contractor to cover the area without boundaries which might be what the informant had in mind that they'd get the job.

The photo under the Bush isn't pig damage. Unlikely for deer to build up to such levels close to town either (and falllow live on grass) so probably what they really need is a stock proof fence.