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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......
I could have sworn I did do that a couple of years ago, but maybe I'm remembering incorrectly re: timing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Husky1600
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by rugerman
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.
“…the occupier of any land, and the spouse or partner and anyQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
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
You've got hour priorities wrong there fella !!Quote:
Originally Posted by hispeednodrag
I'd rather buy a license than spend $$ on turps [emoji41]
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yip thats the one.....its a bit weird in this PC world we live in......Quote:
Originally Posted by 20 Bore
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.
then danny downer try the ''im not that fired up about waterfowling'' section.Quote:
Originally Posted by hispeednodrag
cos we here are:O_O::thumbsup:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Yea bit odd. I wonder if it has anything to do with being 3 people total. You can only supervise one kid shooting not 2 if by yourself. eastern season did a "take a mate hunting" licence last year for 4$ only for opening and couldn't have had a licence before with the intent of getting more people into the sport. Clever idea definitely has it's negatives but for growing the sport it's not a terrible idea.
dad could be 60 and both children in their 40s......FAL is no barrier......
I wonder how the OP gets on if stopped by ranger in possesion of ducks on way home Sunday evening???
In today’s culture that that law is extremely anti lgbtqia+ because it excludes children that do not identity as son or daughter. What about kids that identify as non-binary demitrans saplings?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
so the wording will be changed AGAIN to be one child.......and then the LGBQ crowd will get all het up as breeding doesnt work so well for same gender couples..... so wording will have to change again.....to 2 adults in relationship and one person/thing that identifies as belonging to them....maybe...... oh you could could really have some fun withthis if you had enough coin and the will to piss off the rule writers.
''yea gods'' and i speak as a father who has a son that is to lazy to.pick a gender or sexual identity.Quote:
Originally Posted by JessicaChen
but managed to find the energy and belay his confusion long enough to to FATHER a child..
the whole time claiming to be a trans woman in a lesbian married relationship.
GIVE ME F...IN STRENGTH
I dont think i have ever seen my licence money at work either, im in helensville just north of Auckland. I am however willing to contribute to an organization dedicated to preserving the sport that i have enjoyed all my life and hope that my children may do the same, in a world that is becoming increasingly hostile towards anything that involves a firearm.
Hundred bucks buys you f!@k all these days anyway.
Reply sorry Mr Ranger thats not a duck thats a chicken that now identifys as a moa:O_O::XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
hundred buks buys you f all from f&g and has for the last 5or 6 years unfortunatly since they sold out to docQuote:
Originally Posted by muka88
They did'nt sell out to DoC; the wildlife act is subsidiary to the conservation Act and the then min of cons sage did the deed. Also took Canada geese from NZF&G as a managed game bird. NZF&G get zero funding from the multimillion DoC coffers and are soley funded by licence sales and mouse poor as a result. IMO they do a good job while under miserable constraints.
The blame for that lies with Federated Farmers. They wanted them removed so farmers could do pest control. Now they are a major issue in a lot of NZ, more than rabbits or possums.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woody
Sage went along with Feds and the sign off was by Minister of Cons having control of the Act. Very unfortunate.
bollocks kate wilkinson removed canada geese from the gamebird list.and carter gave feds 100.000 toward goose controlQuote:
Originally Posted by Woody
so 250.000 licence buyers times a hundred buks plus is chicken feed.
f&g suposedly manages wetlands for doc yet not one word about the removel of all willows around lake ellesmere.
including poisoning them in a protected wetland wtf
by what right did they sell boggy creek to doc ''wet land ownership is not our thing ''
even just to have a place they control for novice hunters????
who at the same time they were selling them down the river they were trying to recruit in a drive to encorage more to waterfowl hunt .
why does doc need to own every bit of lake edge land the can get thier grasping paws on
cos all they do is poison what they deem not native let it overgrow then plant some flax or other bollocks
theyre also bieng questioned over the cost and validity of spendinfg bequest money on thier belfast edifice.
as far as i know while its the minister F&g are responcible to
the /wildlife/conervation act is seperate and largely f all to do with them
she does have the power of vetoeing the gazzetted stuff tho.
.feds said they,d f..k f&g and it looks like its workin.
me to,Quote:
Originally Posted by muka88
you know one??
@gsp follower. Yes you are correct regarding Kate Wilkinson. She was deputy min of cons and dissappeared shortly after stuffing the geese management. However I stand by the rest of my post. NZF&G are subject to Cons Act, are miserably funded and have saved many wetlands and helped establish others. They have saved several fishing rivers, bred and released trout and salmon and are the best advocates for wildfowlers we have.
agreed mostly but they are funded by the people they supposedly serve and if the funding is not riseing to thier satisfaction then a mirror awaits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woody
WE DO NOT WANT GOVERNMENT FUNDING COS IT,L COME WITH STRINGS and we scertainly dont want the assiociation with the serial hypocrites at doc..
how do a org so funded to conserve take such extreme measures to kill what doesnt suit their preservationist fantasies.
we will not be returning to pre human aoteroa anytime soon and the moa will not be on the game licence eithe[
Quote:
Kate Wilkinson
Conservation
The protection status of Canada geese as a game bird will be changed to allow farmers, park owners and aviation managers to cull these birds themselves, Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson announced today.
Canada geese will be removed from Schedule 1 of the Wildlife Act 1953 and listed on Schedule 5. This means that Fish and Game will no longer manage the geese as a hunting resource. A permit will not be required to shoot them.
“As the population of Canada geese continues to increase so does their risk to aviation safety and the damage they inflict to pasture and crops,” Ms Wilkinson says.
“The current status where the geese populations are managed as a game bird is not working.]
Shame moa won’t be on the game license….it was before unlimited as I recall…think it was Easter an the invention of the omelette that done em in though…..but on the bright side it’s going to save my fingers…..all that plucking eh:XD:
Yea definitely no day licence for opening weekend