Welcome guest, is this your first visit? Create Account now to join.
  • Login:

Welcome to the NZ Hunting and Shooting Forums.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.

Night Vision NZ Ammo Direct


User Tag List

+ Reply to Thread
Page 2 of 13 FirstFirst 12345678910111213 LastLast
Results 16 to 30 of 190
Like Tree584Likes

Thread: Venison meat hunting in NZ in the past

  1. #16
    Member
    Join Date
    Feb 2022
    Location
    Nz
    Posts
    1,125
    I really should get dads photos scanned. He has some neat ones of those days, deer on horses, huts, trout etc.

    I should see if he has any meat dockets from those days. He probably doesn't. I think they used to supply false names to avoid the tax

  2. #17
    Member
    Join Date
    Dec 2011
    Location
    NI
    Posts
    12,930
    I didn't know it at the time in circa 1971 but I took this pic for @NIMROD.

    Name:  Picture702.jpeg
Views: 721
Size:  15.1 KB
    Micky Duck and BSA270 like this.
    Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing, and right-doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
    - Rumi

  3. #18
    Member
    Join Date
    Dec 2011
    Location
    Southern Alps
    Posts
    4,709
    I was doing my building apprentice then in 1970.$26/wk for 44hrs aweek.Id sooner be payed hunting.
    Tahr and BSA270 like this.

  4. #19
    Member
    Join Date
    Jun 2013
    Location
    Tokoroa
    Posts
    287
    Quote Originally Posted by SmokeyJason View Post
    The tax went on when labour come into power.
    From my memory it was Piggy Muldoon when he was finance minister about '71/72.

    I remember sitting on top of 3 stags above to slip up the Aniwaniwa valley, looking down at the landrover at Riddifords hut and saying to the father in law, I'd like to get that fat short arse up here to hump them down there and take 25% off him.

    But you adapt and all my vehicle and hunting expenses were tax deductible with little bookwork.
    Tahr, tetawa, Moa Hunter and 4 others like this.

  5. #20
    Member
    Join Date
    Dec 2022
    Location
    Whanganui
    Posts
    1,200
    Quote Originally Posted by Gamehunter View Post
    From my memory it was Piggy Muldoon when he was finance minister about '71/72.

    I remember sitting on top of 3 stags above to slip up the Aniwaniwa valley, looking down at the landrover at Riddifords hut and saying to the father in law, I'd like to get that fat short arse up here to hump them down there and take 25% off him.

    But you adapt and all my vehicle and hunting expenses were tax deductible with little bookwork.
    Piggy was all for encouraging the money flowing back to nz from overseas. So still say it was labour, they will find a way to tax sex with your wife one day.

  6. #21
    Member
    Join Date
    Feb 2016
    Location
    Marlborough
    Posts
    1,068
    Quote Originally Posted by HG Man View Post
    Food safety rules kinda killed it, but its on the way back. MPI has a system where if you pass a food safety test, you can supply butchers. I don't know costs, but I know a guy who does it in the middle of the North Island.

    You have to find the butcher yourself though.
    Has got to be an approved game processor and you have to have a contract to supply, with appropriate training on game animal treatment, to gain MPI accreditation.

  7. #22
    Member
    Join Date
    Jun 2013
    Location
    Tokoroa
    Posts
    287
    Quote Originally Posted by Gamehunter View Post
    From my memory it was Piggy Muldoon when he was finance minister about '71/72.

    I remember sitting on top of 3 stags above to slip up the Aniwaniwa valley, looking down at the landrover at Riddifords hut and saying to the father in law, I'd like to get that fat short arse up here to hump them down there and take 25% off him.

    But you adapt and all my vehicle and hunting expenses were tax deductible with little bookwork.
    Withholding tax must have come in 1974 as there is no tax on this docket.


    Name:  Meat docket 1973 001 (002).jpg
Views: 684
Size:  394.8 KB
    Tahr, Trout, 6x47 and 10 others like this.

  8. #23
    Member
    Join Date
    Jul 2019
    Location
    Canterbury
    Posts
    602
    I left school in 1973, that receipt was 4 months work for me... I wish I had been involved in the venison and particularly possum skin industry. Well done Gamehunter.
    norsk likes this.

  9. #24
    Member
    Join Date
    Feb 2022
    Location
    Nz
    Posts
    1,125
    wow $493 in a day would have been good money back then??
    6x47 likes this.

  10. #25
    Member
    Join Date
    Jun 2023
    Location
    Auckland
    Posts
    312
    A couple of questions for those that were there. What is the "weight" representative of, meat only, meat on bone? Would it be fair to say given the measure was weight that reds were the focus? I guess why would you target sika for example if this was the measure?
    "Death - our community's number one killer"

  11. #26
    Member Micky Duck's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2015
    Location
    Geraldine
    Posts
    25,096
    if it was a deer it got shot and sold..reds were by far the most common animals around..fallow were in small pockets...and in some cases VERY small pockets,mostly on private land..heck it was still that way 35 years ago.
    75/15/10 black powder matters

  12. #27
    Member
    Join Date
    Apr 2022
    Location
    New Plymouth
    Posts
    3,377
    Quote Originally Posted by Snoppernator View Post
    A couple of questions for those that were there. What is the "weight" representative of, meat only, meat on bone? Would it be fair to say given the measure was weight that reds were the focus? I guess why would you target sika for example if this was the measure?
    the weight is skin on and lungs heart and liver all attached to carcass - that offal was required to sell carcass - was checked at factory - much earlier ( 60,s) we could sell what were called pin bone hindquarters - this was whole skin with hindquarters attached and the back bone with back steak attached - one carried a small saw and cut the ribs of just out from back steak - was quite a good way to sell really - could carry two pin boned deer on a pack frame -the biggest red stag I know of that was sold was 404 lb and was shot at top of east coast - most stags we sold from Te Urewera were only in the 180 lb class by comparison - was a big stag in there to go 200 lb

  13. #28
    Member
    Join Date
    Jun 2013
    Location
    Tokoroa
    Posts
    287
    Those 3 were "head off, no offal, hocks off but sinews attached"

    No TB problems back then.

  14. #29
    mpf
    mpf is offline
    Member
    Join Date
    Dec 2020
    Location
    hastings
    Posts
    60
    Quote Originally Posted by Snoppernator View Post
    A couple of questions for those that were there. What is the "weight" representative of, meat only, meat on bone? Would it be fair to say given the measure was weight that reds were the focus? I guess why would you target sika for example if this was the measure?

    Red deer ,sika ,fallow ,rusa and samba ,hindquarters only ,deer cut in half ,whole deer clean shot ,body shot ,arse shot ,rolled down hills ,floated down creeks and flysprayed with coopers odourless ,they took the lot.
    Micky Duck, norsk, BSA270 and 1 others like this.

  15. #30
    MSL
    MSL is online now
    Member MSL's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2014
    Location
    Waikato
    Posts
    6,491
    Quote Originally Posted by 6x45 View Post
    Here's some of the last good days.

    Loved it @ $8.10/kg for headshots 45-64kg range.

    More deer about in places they shouldn't have got to now this market has been removed. Now we see more funding getting thrown at controlling deer... gotta wonder about all that.

    I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

    Attachment 230146
    Attachment 230147
    $5 drafting fee for a dead deer.


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

 

Similar Threads

  1. Replies: 59
    Last Post: 19-10-2022, 04:40 PM
  2. Prepping venison roasts - anyone brine their meat?
    By hotbarrels in forum Game Cooking and Recipes
    Replies: 18
    Last Post: 07-01-2022, 08:43 PM
  3. Mid Storm meat hunting
    By oneshot in forum The Magazine
    Replies: 8
    Last Post: 24-05-2018, 10:35 PM
  4. Meat hunting Zambia
    By Zamkiwi in forum Hunting
    Replies: 12
    Last Post: 10-10-2015, 10:37 PM

Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
Welcome to NZ Hunting and Shooting Forums! We see you're new here, or arn't logged in. Create an account, and Login for full access including our FREE BUY and SELL section Register NOW!!