Thread: mallard releases

Originally Posted by gsp follower

true enough its about f&g fixing whats crook not making it easier for the wealthy to buy thier way out of the situation or escorting the overeseas ones around whats really happening and giving the overseas ones a preserves/guides eye view that all is well by buying birds in.
while joe average has to suck on it.

It's not as cut and dried as that I don't think. There could be an honest discussion on this topic. The concept has some merit. Less access may be bought out from the average kiwi hunter- which is happening for a while under one guise or another. One property shooting semi tame birds might give 30? 40? 50? licence buyers a killing fix during a season. That could require a lot of access were wild birds only being provided for guests.

Good reasonings or not it's pretty clear- despite straight forward legislation game bird hunting in NZ will see a significant widening of opportunity to hunt between the "have's" and the "have not's". Poor people aren't good clients anyway.