Thread: Tahr cull ? Extermination? What’s happening ?

Originally Posted by Cordite

If Tahr are so rare they must be located and shot from the air, do we really need a cull? Tragic waste of human lives in the pursuit of Eugenie's wet dream.

From past Forest Service culling operations it was found that they cannot be controlled by foot hunters alone. This from my uncle who tailed about 8000 from memory. By all accounts they do concentrate in areas and chew them out to bare ground.

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

From past Forest Service culling operations it was found that they cannot be controlled by foot hunters alone. This from my uncle who tailed about 8000 from memory. By all accounts they do concentrate in areas and chew them out to bare ground.

Yes that was the case and when the choppers started we foot shooters were told to push them higher up so they could
be mopped up. At first the Thar would try and out climb the machines anyway,they were buggered in deep snow.
As time went on they turned and headed for cover long before the sound of rotors could be heard,they wised up eventually.
It was and will be an awful waste of top meat,far to many all the same.

Just found out that one of the chaps involved in the crash was an old mate, way back in the Forest Service days. He was a trainee woodsman back then.He spent every opportunity with us hunters. He lived to hunt..RIP old mate.
Condolences.