Thread: Venison meat hunting in NZ in the past

yes the old FS took a poor view of its hunters selling deer - despite the fact that many of the shall we say upper management got away with it - we did give the loggers at Willow flat deer and they would drop us of beers - one of the closest near crashes was at the Wairata chiller - Spud had sold and the new owner was standing on the side of the chiller holding his young son when a fully loaded 300 came in totally committed - the hook release failed and the pilot managed to drag the load sideways and dump down onto the paddock - he reckoned that was as close to a fatality as he came in his flying - he had no ability to lift at all - he had been only able to maintain level flight all the way from upper Waioeka