Thread: Should I have shot this Deer?

1080 isn't used to target deer. Deer numbers are not a 1080 use criteria.

Good on you for doing multiple pack in out trips to recover the meat.

One theme I see in this thread is choice of sex importance in herd management.

Look we are quite happy as a group to criticise DOC for culling bull tahr in their culls. On the grounds that killing bulls does nothing for herd management. Well it's the same for deer. We need to kill females!

Im at the stage now where my attitude has changed so much, and Ive seen so big an increase in numbers in some areas. Like the ruahines, like sumner, that I will now shoot hinds and their fawns at this time of year. It's unpleasant for sure. But we really need to start getting serious.