Thread: Venison meat hunting in NZ in the past

The whole animal/lungs requirement killed it for me as a foot hunter. Most of my dockets went through under "non deplumes". I don't recall paying tax.

Later when farming and catching deer I sent a few whole deer to the chiller like stags that jumped in during the roar etc.

But the best money was capturing and selling alive. I kept too many to build up a herd cos they became worthless in the late 80's during the slump. They should have been sold at $2k each as I caught them. We caught 100's through every method imaginable. The least effective were foot traps (cruel) and foot hunting with paxarm (finding them and getting them out was a night mare). Still have a half share in a paxarm somewhere. Automatic gates were hit and miss. The most effective were jump ins and crops with double sheep netting with the top run let down. Could catch dozens in a night. Great times.

Deer traps had their perils too....... but sometimes they were not quite salvageable