Hey guys my cobber and I are keen on a roo hunt next year (planning early as kids wives jobs etc) any advice on where to start, or who to talk to? Have done a search just looking for some more advice
Cheers in advance
Terry clynes
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Hey guys my cobber and I are keen on a roo hunt next year (planning early as kids wives jobs etc) any advice on where to start, or who to talk to? Have done a search just looking for some more advice
Cheers in advance
Terry clynes
can anyone join in?
You are 'bound' to get someone 'jumping' on this mate :D It would be ROOed if they didn't ;)
I would start with DOC and the blocks in the hunter hills they usually are well stocked, get a permit and go. Youll no doubt meet a few locals strike up a relationship and get some private land. That worked well for me.
Plenty of blocks you can get on to DOC blocks Hunter Hills can get a bit of a hammering, The Kirklistons long walk through private land. If you PM me I'll see if I can give you a couple of phone numbers on the Hakataramea side
Awesome start cheers will ring doc tomorrow
DOC are doing a 1080 drop in Kirkliston Range for wallabies this winter.
Pesticides Proposed Application at: Eastern Kirkliston Aerial Wallaby 1080
Pesticide: Sodium fluoroacetate
Trade name: 0.2% 1080 Pellets
Toxic loading: 2 g/kg
Method: Aerial
Application date: 21/6/2017 - 25/6/2017
Agency: DOC
Area (ha): 1444.6972
Time to warning sign removal: 9 months after bait application finishes
And also the Gammack Range Conservation Area. Eastern side of lake Pukaki , south of Jollie River, from First Creek to Landslip Creek, above Coxs Downs....1900 HaQuote:
Originally Posted by scottrods
Cheers guys!!!!!! They should spend the 1080 money on putting a small bounty on them instead of bloody 1080
I'm by no ways an expert on them , but have been shooting a few roos over the last year . Some days you see heaps other days they are there but you don't see them . Personally I find them challenging little buggers . I can totally see why they have to poison ,I'm not a fan on poison but they got no choice. The area I hunt is getting a drop too this winter . Will put a dent in Fallow numbers I'd be thinking toQuote:
Originally Posted by Blisters
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Mate, we should organise a forum hunt! Would be a good weekendQuote:
Originally Posted by Awaian
Bring guns ammo sausages and a fart sack, biggest roo wins the much coveted moro bar
HaHa! nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blisters
This is one of my new to do tasks since getting the govt check (oldie).
Need some practice with the new (to me) rifle tho.
Have to study up the Doc land (use of) theme too, finally indulging in shooting after skirting around it all life.
Where did you hear about that 1080? I can't find anything on DOC site?Quote:
Originally Posted by oraki
keen if its over the winter, but seeing your planning this far in advance i'm guessing its for summerQuote:
Originally Posted by Blisters
I'd def be keen if winter/spring and not summer (too busy w fruit). Count me in!!!!
Sorry, not 1080. Feratox in bait holders. Ecan are doing it. Was in most of the daily rags that came out yesterdayQuote:
Originally Posted by StrikerNZ
Dosent have to be summer that's the beauty of long planningQuote:
Originally Posted by 223nut
Ah, with you now. Thanks for the heads up. That will probably clean out a good number of the deer too. Bloody roos.. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by oraki
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Ok Guys, I thought I would post a few pic's of what you can expect when you go for your Roo hunt. For what it's worth I walk 20 or so meters up one side of the gully, then I might pause and throw a rock down into the scrub, once the Roo's start running up the other side I gun them down with the semi auto Beretta using 2 shot. You could use a pattern master for tighter choke but I haven't bothered. Bloody good fun and good luck chaps. As you can see by one of the photo's it's quite picturesque and it gives you an idea of the sort of terrain you will face, (very steep country)
Or you could go when its like this, makes them easier to find.
