Thread: Should I have shot this Deer?

"1080 isn't used to target deer. Deer numbers are not a 1080 use criteria."
While 1080 isn't currently used to target deer that could always change. There has been enough trial work done in previous years to have quantified sowing rates, application methods and dose rates to enable it's use if there was a policy change and approved label use change.By-kill is expected/accepted in most notified operations. Sometimes the by-kill is reasonably high, just look back to what happened on Molesworth in the not so distant past, numbers rebounded fairly quickly though. Used to be licenced under the old Vertebrate Pest Control system, had a bit to do with 1080,cyanide,phosphorus use over the years. Things have moved on over the years but never say never with 1080 I have a hunch.