Thread: Venison meat hunting in NZ in the past

carefully pick odourless fly spray from store and hope meat buyer did not pick it up some of them had damn good noses and if they picked up flyspray had been used no money

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

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.

Checked Wikipedia and labour held power from 72 to 75.. its very relevant to our future.

Some pretty cool history finding some tails

Thanks for showing your dockets....
How many meet hunting dockets are still left out there ?

For accountancy purposes i believe a common named used at that time was C..ASH.
How many rich ground venison meet hunters have you met....or.....How many poor meet hunters have you met?
What are they physically like now?

I worked out I carried every 4th deer for the government (tax).

That hurt when you actually had to carry 4 out of the bush and you knew that last one was for free.

Then I got a tax exception sorted. That only lasted for the last year until it all fell over.

Originally Posted by 6x45

I worked out I carried every 4th deer for the government (tax).

That hurt when you actually had to carry 4 out of the bush and you knew that last one was for free.

Then I got a tax exception sorted. That only lasted for the last year until it all fell over.

I work till the end of April each year,not earning a red cent ........

When I was meat hunting (1966/67) the venison rate was 1/4 per pound (13 cents) and it was still good money just by the sheer volume. By the early 1970's I was in business as a gunsmith and doing quite well from the venison industry (scope mounting and rebarreling FN FALs, AR15's, and Mini14's and big mag conversions on BAR's, and then flat out designing and making net guns). Good days but long hours, and it built my first house in 1973.

I arrived a bit later on the scene, right at the tail of it when live recovery was really kicking off in the early "80s IIRC Velvet was $2.20 a Kilo and Venison with Heart Liver and lung in was $2 A grade possum skins were $15 to $18 ea but mostly averaged around $10
Paua was $2 a kg never kept any reciepts someone might of labelled them evidence.

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

The best deer capture pen ever saw was/is on the Waiau block. The mechanism was smooth as silk. Very impressive.The gate swung like a spider web in the breeze and it clicked quieter than a Swiss watch.

A mate worked on a high country station and they used crops alot catching deer, they caught 24 one night and everyone of them lived, it was a huge amount of money many years ago.

Originally Posted by video hunter

Thanks for showing your dockets....
How many meet hunting dockets are still left out there ?

For accountancy purposes i believe a common named used at that time was C..ASH.
How many rich ground venison meet hunters have you met....or.....How many poor meet hunters have you met?
What are they physically like now?

Physically the same as shearers ,builders ,fencers and many of the professions that require manual labour. Finacially It was the same as any job ,some pissed it up ,some bought houses ,some bought into farms. Some took flying lessons and bought planes and helicopters. Holidays ,education for their kids ,new cars or even more piss. They worked their own hours, answered to no one and one things for sure ,they didn't/don't give a rats what some weekend warrior on a 'mission' thought about it.

Originally Posted by SmokeyJason

Checked Wikipedia and labour held power from 72 to 75.. its very relevant to our future.

the 70's version of kiwisaver would have transformed our country......

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

the 70's version of kiwisaver would have transformed our country......

Yes.

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