Thread: Shooting to waste

I was culler for some time and we had similar rules(though not really enforced)
Of course you have to remember foot hunting rarely has you killing animals close to tracks or roads. Sometimes that happened and on the odd occasion I encouraged someone to pop off a track somewhere and load up a trailer. This someone was a capable bushman set up to butcher and salami/sausage everything.
What I couldn't do was encourage the local Indian mechanic to go looking for carcasses and this was the person usually bugging me for the animals.

I would often take legs or design a return trip to pick up legs. Of course the most important thing was successful destruction of a herd of animals. As it was mainly goats I was all out to kill whole mobs in one go as escaped nanny's and Billy's could get very wily very quick. Billy's could easily leave the animal group as they weren't as gregarious. These things meant a lower removal rate for the contract.
We were using hicap mags and semis and I would use my dog to find them and learn their beds. I would be sneaking in amoungst them before opening up so that I could get the leaders then sometimes a running battle would occur across multiple valleys as I chased down the escapees.
None of this was good for meat collection and many animals would have two shots quartered in through the rear leg. I would almost never neck or neck shoot.

Unfortunately it worked well and the blocks round here have no goats. We cleaned out the ranges(400+ goats)up against our local town which now have kiwi release there now.

Basically I'm saying for foot hunters it's not really feasible and the money lost to meat removal could be spent just buying meat.
Chopper culling is a different thing. Much of that is collectable and some culling we were I volved with, all animals were collected and given to local marae.

Originally Posted by Cowboy

I was culler for some time and we had similar rules(though not really enforced)
Of course you have to remember foot hunting rarely has you killing animals close to tracks or roads. Sometimes that happened and on the odd occasion I encouraged someone to pop off a track somewhere and load up a trailer. This someone was a capable bushman set up to butcher and salami/sausage everything.
What I couldn't do was encourage the local Indian mechanic to go looking for carcasses and this was the person usually bugging me for the animals.

I would often take legs or design a return trip to pick up legs. Of course the most important thing was successful destruction of a herd of animals. As it was mainly goats I was all out to kill whole mobs in one go as escaped nanny's and Billy's could get very wily very quick. Billy's could easily leave the animal group as they weren't as gregarious. These things meant a lower removal rate for the contract.
We were using hicap mags and semis and I would use my dog to find them and learn their beds. I would be sneaking in amoungst them before opening up so that I could get the leaders then sometimes a running battle would occur across multiple valleys as I chased down the escapees.
None of this was good for meat collection and many animals would have two shots quartered in through the rear leg. I would almost never neck or neck shoot.

Unfortunately it worked well and the blocks round here have no goats. We cleaned out the ranges(400+ goats)up against our local town which now have kiwi release there now.

Basically I'm saying for foot hunters it's not really feasible and the money lost to meat removal could be spent just buying meat.
Chopper culling is a different thing. Much of that is collectable and some culling we were I volved with, all animals were collected and given to local marae.

Hi Cowboy. I always find your posts on this matter interesting. Are you able to share which DOC blocks were cleared of goats? Can't see what harm it would do and might save local hunters a wasted day or two.

I'll pm you
Here is one from Pukenui. Was a short distance from Maunu Rd.

Originally Posted by Cowboy

I'll pm you
Here is one from Pukenui. Was a short distance from Maunu Rd.

Cool. I've heard an old timer talking about walking through the city centre with a rifle on his way to a hunt in the Pukenui Forest. How times have changed!