Thread: Gamebird licence...

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Duck season is to queens birthday w/e for us moonhunt, don't know about pheasants, haven't bought the licence yet.
Requirement for a licence on land you manage is a bit of a can of worms. As head manager you should be entitles to shoot with out licence PROVIDED the owners don't.
However if someone lives on the property it can be argued that it should be them that have the right.

Just had a quick read:-
Auckland
Grey/mallard duck and any hybrid of those species 4 May to 2 Jun 2013
Paradise shelduck 4 May to 30 Jun 2013
Pukeko 4 May to 25 Aug 2013
Black swan 4 May to 30 Jun 2013
Bobwhite (Virginian) quail 4 May to 25 Aug 2013
California quail 4 May to 25 Aug 2013
Cock pheasant 4 May to 25 Aug 2013

Thanks for that, one block holiday home the other is overseas , so i fit that criteria

Originally Posted by Happy

Umm it's voluntary I reckon. They do it free and I certainly couldn't / wouldn't .

Thats what I thought too, Happy

Bring it on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! {Farmers} ,ducks ,pests they are all controlled by the hunter

Yeah cant wait 4 the dundee boys to full the freezer up with yummy duck lol.

Stock up on the sauce there mrs dundee.

It is legislation and tradition set up long before Fish and Game arrived on the scene that protects gamebirds. From a time when duckshooting was a not only a highly gregarious community event but an activity generally governed by rules based around a sporting culture- this has been eroded under F&G as an advocacy body (rather than a management body).

Generic season lengths and limits could be set by F&G's "supervisor" DoC, which is really very similar to what is actually happening now. I would happily have my $90 gamebird tax go towards back country hut and track maintenance. I would consider that benificial.

There is very few cockies that will poison birds for the hell of it. If it happens it is for reason of mismanagement. Most duckshooters I know are cockies, many passionate about ducks, many spending alot of time on habitat- Yet cast as villans?

Looking at geese Tussock has a valid point. If geese stay off regional pest management strategies then the current goose situation is great for :-

F&G- no cost, no work, no loss of revenue (most goose hunters still shoot ducks)
Retail Sector- No limitations- 12 month sales potential
Hunters- can hunt geese and buy gear 12 months of the year

Farmers mostly tolerate (in some cases) heafty production losses for the benifit of all of the above- despite the poor perception of the rural community F&G forces on hunters and the wider public.

Could the goose model work as well for other birds? There's still geese, still rabbits, still possums and deer all despite the gazillions spent on eradication.

I will be buying a license as I am deeply passionate about ducks and wetlands. Tussocks sentiment has wheels which F&G might pay some attention to.

Originally Posted by mrs dundee

Yeah cant wait 4 the dundee boys to full the freezer up with yummy duck lol.

Buy a bloody shot detector. Still got a swollen gum from where the tooth got ripped out last Monday from steel pellet.

It already happened man. I already quit.

So it's no skin off my nose how it pans out.

thats the fuckin spirit become part of the problem rather than the solution
theres no one more pissed off at the mo than me at what ecans done to fuck our opening .but not hunt opening day ?not buy a licence ??id sooner listen to the mom inlaws stories of the old days of knitting than not go out or go out illegally.
we adapt and overcome improvise even. we,re kiwis after all not fuckin moanin poms or annoying twangy auzzies''cup of tea darl'''
we dont just say fuck it i quit we bitch , cajole ,subvert ,work and eventually get want we want

Go GSP follower...we cannot quit...I want to see some real research done by the powers that be rather than formuli being based on hearsay...I cannot understand why they do not empower we the shooters out here to be part of privy to so called research...we have the manpower/girlpower on the ground both during the season and after and befroe...give us OWNERSHIP OF OUR SPORT...I keep thinking on the woodcock fanatics in both Europe and the Americas...they are the people who KNOW MORE ABOUT THEIR BIRD than anyone.
If you lie down and roll over, someone will step on you to step over you...

Usually you have quite intelligent things to say tussock but your theory of make ducks a pest to increase numbers is a bit of a joke, you must be joking right?

If you can give me an example of how making an introduced animal a pest has "increased numbers" i would be all ears.

F&G do a job, they kill thousands of pests each year, give grants to farms all over the place to build wetlands and protect our game birds. They are always going to be doing the wrong thing in someones eyes and to be honest are fighting a pretty hard battle.

So what if there is no public access tp the ponds or wetlands they fund, the idea is that they will have a positive effect for the whole area.

Im coming down to rakaia area for duckshooting as the regs and duck numbers in my area of waikato means opening is pretty poor, I would rather give the ducks up here a chance and come shoot those big fat maize feed birds!!

Each region of the country is obviously very different when it comes to f&g so maybe it is different down there. I will soon find out

Im coming down to rakaia area for duckshooting as the regs and duck numbers in my area of waikato means opening is pretty poor, I would rather give the ducks up here a chance and come shoot those big fat maize feed birds!

fuck off hairy legs ive tagged my ducks and yes my names on them before you ask and i,l be checking no immigrent interlopers try and smuggle any back across the border tooughta have bloody customs officers checkin who come.s off those ferries

Ducks wont no what hit em when us north islsnders arrive!! Bad luck to anyone shooting on Ellesmere cause we will be pulling ducks in from all directions

Where abouts are you going to be gsp follower? Good luck mate

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Ducks wont no what hit em when us north islsnders arrive!! Bad luck to anyone shooting on Ellesmere cause we will be pulling ducks in from all directions Where abouts are you going to be gsp follower? Good luck mate

You'll be PULLING something Perazzi !

Originally Posted by Munsey

You'll be PULLING something Perazzi !

Comon Munsey! Nothin wrong with a mai mai Masty! Thats all there will be to do on that big dirty pond anyway