Thread: Spot lighting deer

[QUOTE=scottrods;26622]NZDA oppose it. It's not hunting.
Private land, farmer wants one for the pot - why not.
Public land - never.[/
I've had some fantastic hunts with a light and have lasting memories I'll never forget .probably while a nada meeting was in session will a room full of guys winging about helli hunting and 1080 , that's not hunting!

I'm surprised people say it's not hunting. I've done a reasonable amount of hunting under the magic moon beam and for one reason; a busy lifestyle. I usually meet my mates after we have helped put our young kids to bed and have been released by our wives. I've always found it a great time to hunt, and sometimes have mixed it up with some rabbit spotlighting - carrying a subsonic .22 and the single shot .243. I still walk as far as I do hunting those blocks during the day and we still gut them and carry them out whole. At night it is harder to judge distance and with someone else holding the light you don't always find the deer straight away.

I've hunted the areas that pop shot and raging bull hunt and the deer are just as easy to shoot during the day, I'm sure they'll both agree that there are no shortage of Sambar in the Turakina Valley.