Thread: Tahr cull to resume

Originally Posted by R93

Dont hate me but I will be culling a few animals. Just have to get that stupid licence sorted.
Guy I will be shooting for tells some different stories to what I have read here.
Animal numbers where I have been hunting are healthy as.
The Thar have evolved in the last 10yrs regarding their habitat and are not stupid.
Maybe some hunters need to as well.

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Maybe the areas with the big Tahr populations causing all the Sage/Green/Fuckwit angst, should be openly nominated to the hunting puplic.

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

Maybe the areas with the big Tahr populations causing all the Sage/Green/Fuckwit angst, should be openly nominated to the hunting puplic.

I don't know of any big populations so don't know what they're on about.
My spots have healthy numbers imo.
Good ratio of nannies to bulls etc.
They would never try and cull them unless they can find them in mature bush and thick scrub.
Any thar in the open also dissappear at a great rate of knots, long before you hear a helicopter yourself.
I used to hate seeing helihunting in my spots but now it works in my favour.

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Originally Posted by R93

I don't know of any big populations so don't know what they're on about.
My spots have healthy numbers imo.
Good ratio of nannies to bulls etc.
They would never try and cull them unless they can find them in mature bush and thick scrub.
Any thar in the open also dissappear at a great rate of knots, long before you hear a helicopter yourself.
I used to hate seeing helihunting in my spots but now it works in my favour.

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How about rethinking that, or at least explaining it really clearly to us about how you'd convey such a message to the powers that be. "I'm OK, fuck the rest of you" is how it comes across and that thinking will destroy our NZ hunting (and your livelihood with it).

I've been out and about on both coasts since last years culling and numbers are at best "different", low in many popular spots and some remoter ones too. If young guys can't get out into the handy spots with a reasonable chance of knocking over an animal the "anti's will have won and some sort of "green rain" will be developed to finish the job.

Originally Posted by Tentman

How about rethinking that, or at least explaining it really clearly to us about how you'd convey such a message to the powers that be. "I'm OK, fuck the rest of you" is how it comes across and that thinking will destroy our NZ hunting (and your livelihood with it).

I've been out and about on both coasts since last years culling and numbers are at best "different", low in many popular spots and some remoter ones too. If young guys can't get out into the handy spots with a reasonable chance of knocking over an animal the "anti's will have won and some sort of "green rain" will be developed to finish the job.

WTF? Who do I have to explain what to? Yeah I am ok.....for now. Probably because of years of adapting and hard work. Read it how ya like.


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For many years now they have been trying to get the last rabbit and have they? no and they never will.
Thar have been on the hit list for a very long time,recovery for the meat,live capture,Govt cullers,search and destroy missions bla,bla.
Regardless of what DOC think or spout they would have more chance pissing in the Queens hat than getting the last one,fact.
Yes they will take a huge hammering in the open shale and tussock areas but their saviour is the WestCoast srub & forested areas and lets face it there's no shortage.
Spending many years chasing around after thar one becomes quite familiar as such. I'm guessing the Bulls that R93 is referring to
would be what the old cullers referred to as scrub Bulls,I could be wrong,,a term we used for the thar that basically stayed in the high scrub/forest. The big boys were/are happy to spend their retirement in such areas, popping out for only short periods.

Originally Posted by R93

I don't know of any big populations so don't know what they're on about.
My spots have healthy numbers imo.
Good ratio of nannies to bulls etc.
They would never try and cull them unless they can find them in mature bush and thick scrub.
Any thar in the open also dissappear at a great rate of knots, long before you hear a helicopter yourself.
I used to hate seeing helihunting in my spots but now it works in my favour.

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This view (yours) is fine if your West Coast tahr have a nice forest to run and hide in. Unfortunately for us east coasters the tahr have nowhere to hide and wiping out massive numbers is easy for the choppers.