Thread: Farmlands

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

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Originally Posted by Finnwolf

2208???

Eight minutes past 10 pm.........NEXT please.

So lady's and gentlemen!

There you have it! This governments commitment to our environment and pedator free NZ.

Let me cross off the environment thing first!

An extra trip for farmers in there wagons to there nearest gun store to pick up ammo. Where as before they could have covered that in a trip to Farmlands. Nice one, more pollution!

So we all know that time is what most of us don`t have and that extra trip will get knocked off of the list simple as that.

Them predators ain't going to just up and shoot them selves. Trapping takes a lot of time......Dick move gov and police dick move!


As a knock on effect we will now have bulk buy of ammo. Not so bad...but wait!

The next time there is some round up of a low life drug nob with a little more ammo than usual. You will see the press saying HEY whys he go so much.......

Yep that will be the next move cutting down to only what you can justify.....(they do this here for rifle ammo in the UK) But it will be worse for you in NZ because shotguns are not a right.

So you will get this across all ammo.


Knock on hey Framers land owners why are you not controlling your pests? We better come in and take care of that for you.....OH by the way here's the bill!

Good gov

And good one any twat who voted for this lot you poor ignorant fools!

I cant agree cause half the the time you go to farmlands they haven't got shit in stock so you have to order it in and make another trip in to town.

Originally Posted by bigbear

I cant agree cause half the the time you go to farmlands they haven't got shit in stock so you have to order it in and make another trip in to town.

So its not just my local store then.

And Central North Island too. Used to be fine a decade ago,,. but have slowly gone downhill. Try to order fert or seed is an absolute nightmare. Fert and seed merchants won't let you order direct "go through farmlands". Try that and orders get stuffed up. it takes them half a dozen more calls to intermediates to get the job done. Far far more difficult than it needs to be.

Should do me for a while.

@Sideshow One of your paragraphs caused me to seek further information

Yep that will be the next move cutting down to only what you can justify.....(they do this here for rifle ammo in the UK) But it will be worse for you in NZ because shotguns are not a right.

What are the "limits" and how are they justified? A link will be fine if it is a lengthy matter.

What is the reasoning to exclude shotguns from those limitations" Again, a link will be fine if it is a lengthy matter.

Finally, whatever do you mean when you say "in NZ shotguns are not a right"? i ask 'cos no firearms of any sort are a "right" here in Middle Earth.

Thank You

@Kiwi Sapper what I was talking about is that in the UK there is no limit on shotgun ammo. Having a shotgun certificate in the uk is a right. Was the same in NZ untill just recently when they passed a law to change this. Why else would they put it into law? Answer becasue if it had gone to court they would have lost.

The further information that you are asking for is my comparsion between the NZ firearms system and the UK one. I can see that this will come next to NZ a limit on the ammount of ammo that you may hold. It will come with the register. In the UK we have to write this on the back of our firearms ticket. (Mines quite full).

Its late here but Ill try to dig you up some links on UK tickets and how they work.

You will have to bear in mind that here a shotgun cert and a firearm cer are two different things, alos each cheif constable of each constabulary makes there own interpretation of the home office rulings.
So here in Berkshire they have slightly different ways of going about it than over the boarder in Wiltshire.
The only thing that is the same is its a mess just like NZ.

pm me if you want further info

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Don't stress about this extra time factor. It's something we all have plenty of apparently.
We have just been told all our rural roads (nationwide) without a median barrier are to be reduced to 80 km an hour. Side roads to 60km.
"It will only add a few minutes to our journey" is the spiel from our council muppets who are pushing this(in fairness to them though, it has been passed by parliament and councils have been told to "sell" the policy).
What I want to know is who is providing all these few extra minutes?
Travel costs on every service we get from town have just gone up by twenty percent.
Another law/policy passed without consultation because they changed the rules to enable them to do it.
Bit off original topic sorry but all sort of related.

When the speed limits are reduced rural, there will be large amounts of revenue available to be collected, they may spy a burglar while targeting the rural "speedster"

Originally Posted by tetawa

When the speed limits are reduced rural, there will be large amounts of revenue available to be collected, they may spy a burglar while targeting the rural "speedster"

That's not to say that the burglar will be apprehended though, unless he's speeding of course.

Remember that most burglers wear raincoats these days...so they don't get too wet from the slap with a wet bus ticket they receive when caught

Originally Posted by zimmer

Had great hopes for Farmlands when I became a shareholder 10 or more years ago. Overall, they have lost the plot though, probably around the time of amalgamation.

A farm supply outfit not selling ammo, sheez.

FarmSource is my go to supplier nowadays, despite me not being a Fonterra fan.

Agree with the comment RE Farmlands losing the plot. They posted a net profit before tax of $7 million but that was with an $8.8 million Covid wage subsidy (while continuing to operate and sell supplies to their customers during lockdown. Farm Source didn’t take the subsidy...), and were provided with significant rent relief from their landlords. They would’ve posted a big loss without that support. Their obsession with market share at the expense of margin has caused a self perpetuated financial reaming. Sucks that they are moving away from stocking ammo but no skin off my nose, I’ll happily give my cash to another NZ owned cooperative (Farm Source)

Originally Posted by mikee

Great except MSSA's such as they were no longer exist in law. Really what it is is the Po Po mking shit up ("policy") om the hoof, as they go and then it effectively being rubber stamped by the pony's mob and we who are actually effected left to try and figure out wht we have to do to keep ourselves on the right side of the rules. Its all getting a bit hard and eventually most will give it away for that reason.........................which I believe is the ultimate end game anyway.

I mean if you look in my truck I am sure if you looked hard enough you could find a live round or 2 rolling around in the dash or under the seats and that would mean my wife could effectively be in possetion of ammo as a non licence holder WTF

yes she can be...it has been this way for quite some time....Ive always said if I was to vist someone in prison I would have to get local copper to search my car first as there is bound to be a few rounds floating around and definately a knife or three.

Originally Posted by Beavis

Can hardly blame them. If you aren't a gun shop that's an awful lot of extra fucking around and liability.

Have to agree with this one. I'm based in Taranaki and spend a fair bit of time in the Hawkes Bay. Only the Bell Block farmlands had any significant range of ammunition. The others had a couple of pack of 22, maybe 223, 303 & 308. The amount if shotgun ammo depended on how close duck shooting was.

They didn't have enough to make it worth going in there to look for ammo. Not their core business or interest.

Bell Block only has a decent range of ammo because one of their staff is ex H&F. It's his interest.

If we had all bought more ammo from farmlands, maybe they would have kept selling it.

But it was never their main business, and it's become too much work and too expensive for them

Another one bites the dust. A great example of changing ammunition available bymaking things expensive rather than illegal. easier to get under the radar