Thread: Pest deer on private property.

Originally Posted by video hunter

Problem deer on private property....What would you pay and what would you charge financially?

Perhaps some of us have met rural property owners who have problem deer on their property and want to get rid of 1...2...3...4...5 deer or whatever. What would be a fair price to pay a deer shooter to get them disposed of?

If you are running a professional pest deer shooting business what would you charge per animal or time involved.
Allowing time to travel there....to do the work required....and travelling back to you base. Total time say 10 hours labour.

What would be a fair price per hour or animal?

Forget about comments of doing it for nothing you are running a business with overheads, expenses etc
Every thing is done legally, safely and properly.

waro helicopters are the best bet to knock down numbers quickly and efficiently on private property - but not sure who is operating North Island - a friend in the Contract business has been doing heli shooting on a few propertys to reduce numbers - but there is culling and then theres hunting for sale meat or pet food and they are two different things - why -when I hunted as a culler we left most of the deer where they were shot and that is the right way to go about it - time wasted retrieving carcasses is time that could be spent shooting more deer - simple as that- you need to be hard hearted and practical about it - to spend time humping deer around one will soon get sick of that and you need good access with decent tracks -I know contract rates to employ experienced hunters was around $50 an hour - but for that you get very very experienced hunters with top dogs - and fit hunters - one could try a safari type operation with groups but skill levels will be either nill of feck all - if you did get permission ask for a koha for your costs and see how much work you might get - but North Island you have genuine competition from some very experienced out fits if the farmer has big pockets and can afford to pay