Thread: Time to re-introduce a paying for deer/goat tail scheme?

Originally Posted by Kelton

Wouldn’t work to easy to scan with the amount of wild animals on private property

thats the fly in ointment..... UNTILL the entire country is seen as a block to be culled..with no exempt places the mindset wont change. the big hairy mountiain goats are a classic case in point....the legislation states we should have a TOTAL population between X and Y ok fair enough we need to be realistic and live with that...but when a certain large company owned by a fella who started out on a digger in waimate and now is large land and company owner,can have numerous farms with very large number of animals on them for safari /guiding/shits n giggles it takes that number out of public shootable land around it...actually out of entire countrys allowable tally....in t"heory" you could end up with situation where he had more than 25% of all the animals allowed..... which is a win win for him as he can raise his guiding fees as high as market will pay...supply and demand,he controls 25% of supply so can demand whatever market will stand.