Thread: No Fish and Game Day Licences any longer?

I've just been on the Fish and Game website to try and buy a day licence for the first day opening weekend, as I did a couple of years ago.. and I can only see the option of a season licence.

Is there something I'm missing (i.e. did they change their policy to only offer season licences?)

Cheers

Nope i believe "day" licenses are only available after opening week is over.

Day licenses are only available after Opening Weekend, so that people dont take advantage of a cheap weekend and contribute little to to coffers. full season license is good value when you consider that you get about 4 months of shooting, every day if you want to.

its always been this way......

Originally Posted by Husky1600

Day licenses are only available after Opening Weekend, so that people dont take advantage of a cheap weekend and contribute little to to coffers. full season license is good value when you consider that you get about 4 months of shooting, every day if you want to.

I could have sworn I did do that a couple of years ago, but maybe I'm remembering incorrectly re: timing.

Oh well.. I guess I'll just ride along with the extended family rather than shooting and contribute nothing to the coffers at all. The rangers roam around relentlessly in the valley in rural rotorua the family ponds are on (despite no conservation /anti-predator work done in the area) and it's not worth the fine and not worth paying the season fee for 1 day of shooting.

not worth paying $100 for a day of shooting????
if anyone has 2nd shotgun assembled you are risking it being seized.....
if the rangers are roaming around GOOD they are doing the job they paid to do..... if the werent out there,no body would buy licence and shooting ducks with 10/22 would be more widespread than it already is.
it sounds like you are prime candidate to run a few traps around the place.... if it needs doing and all that.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

not worth paying $100 for a day of shooting????
if anyone has 2nd shotgun assembled you are risking it being seized.....
if the rangers are roaming around GOOD they are doing the job they paid to do..... if the werent out there,no body would buy licence and shooting ducks with 10/22 would be more widespread than it already is.
it sounds like you are prime candidate to run a few traps around the place.... if it needs doing and all that.

I'm not that fired up about it to be honest - it's my wife's family tradition for all blokes to shoot opening weekend. I would be half babysitting my 5 year old anyway, so hardly good value at $100 for the day's shooting.

I'll still get ducks without shooting though as long as I'm happy to help with plucking and gutting, so I see no down-sides to not shooting haha (everyone else is sick of duck).

Thanks for your answers/opinions though.

Welcome to the forum. It sounds like your opening day will be low speed and high drag

If it's your families land the ponds are on someone can shoot without a license anyway. When I had land with ponds and river thru it, I still purchased a license towards the cause. Don't know it it would still be the same today though, so much has changed.

owner/occupier or nominated person...one each.....adult and youngun...not two adults or two younguns if my memory serves me correctly.

Originally Posted by rugerman

Welcome to the forum. It sounds like your opening day will be low speed and high drag

Haha yeah it might be, but budgets are tight and I'd rather preserve money for things I'd enjoy more. I'll just leave the shotgun at home and get on the turps earlier than the rest of the party so I can laugh with them about their inevitable misfortunes and follies.

I have also realised that we didn't shoot opening weekend 2 years ago with Covid lockdowns etc, we shot a couple of weeks later, so that settles my day licence confusion..

I had a stroke of luck one year, really only wanted to shoot opening weekend but had to buy full license, due to a cock up on EFTPOS machine it printed out both declined and accepted on paper, neither I or the person selling the license noticed, why?, well who would know?...anyway off I went opening weekend without any problems and on the Monday received a letter telling me my license was null and void, bummer, checked with bank and no they had not paid out so posted back to where I bought it from...win win for me, not that it happens often.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

owner/occupier or nominated person...one each.....adult and youngun...not two adults or two younguns if my memory serves me correctly.

“…the occupier of any land, and the spouse or partner and any
one son or daughter of the occupier, may, during an open season,
hunt or kill on that land without a licence (but subject to all other
restrictions imposed by game regulations.” The occupier of the land
is normally the owner if she/he personally resides on the land, but
this privilege can be transferred to farm manager or sharemilkers by
a written statement indicating such to Fish and Game if the owner
does not personally reside on the land. Note that the Act allows
for hunting by three people; the occupier, his/her wife/husband/
civil union partner or de facto partner and one son or daughter on
that land - but no other land

this is from F&G's website on owner/occupier

Originally Posted by hispeednodrag

I'll just leave the shotgun at home and get on the turps earlier than the rest of the party

You've got hour priorities wrong there fella !!
I'd rather buy a license than spend $$ on turps



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Originally Posted by 20 Bore

“…the occupier of any land, and the spouse or partner and any
one son or daughter of the occupier, may, during an open season,
hunt or kill on that land without a licence (but subject to all other
restrictions imposed by game regulations.” The occupier of the land
is normally the owner if she/he personally resides on the land, but
this privilege can be transferred to farm manager or sharemilkers by
a written statement indicating such to Fish and Game if the owner
does not personally reside on the land. Note that the Act allows
for hunting by three people; the occupier, his/her wife/husband/
civil union partner or de facto partner and one son or daughter on
that land - but no other land

this is from F&G's website on owner/occupier

yip thats the one.....its a bit weird in this PC world we live in......
notice the wording ..spouse or partner...... and one son or daughter.....interesting its 3 people 2 parners and only one child..... cant be dad and 2 kids or mum n 2 kids.....that bit peeved me a bit...they updated the rules to include couples of any discription...but exclude solo parents.