Thread: Drones on DOC land

Originally Posted by kotuku

I wouldnt push my luck with any of DOCS spotty herberts .Im civil to them if em on encounter ,ask what theyre up to and make sure we know who is where and usually Im armed!seems to work OK.regarding permits in my case lake ellesmere -3permits for me duck canada and feralpests permits always renewed as part of my licensing procedure each year .got shagged about this year as seems a new bloke handled my enqwuiry -got it sorted easy -no hard feeling as we all have to learn in a new job.

I've given up trying to get a small game permit from DoC, every year for the past 3 years I have phoned them for one for the Rakaia and Rangitata area. The guy on the end of the phone was next to bloody useless!.....well actually worse than that. His final words were that DoC did not have any areas in the upper Rakaia or upper Rangitata that had any small game or geese to hunt. Go figure! I do go through the 15+ minute long phone process of getting a game bird permit though. We never use to have a problem when we phoned the local district office, but now that its been centralised its all turned to shit.