Thread: Name that poacher

Originally Posted by 308

I joined to use the local range and at 135 a year I can live with the cost

I'm not a big deal

Iv met a few and mostly seem ok to me.

Originally Posted by Brian

2 people got caught on our place with bows. Cops came and gave them a trespass notice. A cop told the father you realize this could make you an unsuitable person for a gun licence but nothing happened hes still a big deal in the local deerstalkers.

If this happens again contact me directly, I will sort it a lot more than a just a trespass.

Originally Posted by 308

I joined to use the local range and at 135 a year I can live with the cost

I'm not a big deal

Hopefully you don't sneak round on somebodys place that you have been trying to butter up.

@berg243 You will find first time you get a warning letter against your licence. 2nd time your licence is gone. From what the local cop has told me. (depending on what you could loose you licence first time round)

Alot of town hunters have no idea how bad the poaching/spotlighting is on rural roads.(shooting of stock ) using the excuse we are only shooting possums doesn't cut it any more.Times have changed. There are people driving over from BOP just to drive the roads around gisborne with a light. 3HR drive they are not going home with nothing. There are many rural roads around gisborne now with cameras on roads .So carry your permits and licence

Originally Posted by Brian

Hopefully you don't sneak round on somebodys place that you have been trying to butter up.

Fuck no

I've got plenty to hunt on my own land

At my local NZDA a year or teo back, I had the just recent president tell me all about how much he poached and rustled in the old days, and how he thinks it's sweet as now so long as you don't get caught. Helped pay for his first house etc etc. Suffice to say I have nothing to do with that branch anymore, for that and a couple other reasons

So I'm guessing that no one knows who the two guys that posed for the photo are then?

Originally Posted by kidmac42

So I'm guessing that no one knows who the two guys that posed for the photo are then?

Defiantly Sounds like its the President & vice President of the NZDA

Faces committed to memory Tommy. If they are locals then I will see them one day and pot them.

Going rate at the moment for hunting without a firearms license (second time same offence in 2yrs) is 90hrs community service and destruction of weapon.

Originally Posted by Daithi

Going rate at the moment for hunting without a firearms license (second time same offence in 2yrs) is 90hrs community service and destruction of weapon.

Don't say 'weapon'. Some people here will get upset.

Originally Posted by Daithi

Going rate at the moment for hunting without a firearms license (second time same offence in 2yrs) is 90hrs community service and destruction of weapon.

Don't say 'weapon'. Some people here will get upset.

Shit I wouldn’t want my weapon destructed!

Originally Posted by turtle

Saw this yesterday, Looking for access to a block .

Sorry about size,





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A few months ago 3 jokers got caught shooting a deer on a neighbors front lawn towards his house from the road.They got taken away in handcuffs.will be good to see what sentence they get.

When farming in northland we had a ongoing poaching problem where shooters (couldn't classify them as hunters) would come across the river at the back of the farm and shoot up mobs of goats standing in the paddocks. Now we were farming the goats for cleaning up the pasture, bringing them into the paddocks behind the ewes on rotational grazing. We had several mobs of 300 or so goats. Was noting to go to the back of the farm and find 60 goats laying dead in the paddock. Cowards used to shoot and run.

Neighbours would call whenever they heard shooting but we never managed to get to the back of the farm in time to catch them, until one day .....

Alarm call came in that poachers where shooting. The old man grabbed his 308 and we hightailed it to the back boundary. Poachers were just heading for the river when we got there. Old man yelled out for the three of them to stop where they were, which the didn't, until, a 180gr .308 round thumped into the ground behind them. They very sheepishly stopped and came back for a chat. I don't think I have ever seen my old man dress down anyone the way he did with those three. They were left with no misunderstanding of the errors of their ways and what would happen if they were ever seen in the area again.
One of the poachers had a lab with him, with no collar on it.. the old man asked were its collar and hydatis tags were. He claimed they were at home. The old man told the owner that since it was illegal to bring the dog onto the property without its tags he would have to shoot it. He made the guy bring the dog over and cranked another round into the 308 and sighted up the dog. Owner was in tears, begging for mercy (it was his wife's pet). Old man told them to all leave, take the dog and never come back.

End of the story was that the poachers took off and ended up at the pub. Just so happened that a contract shearer that worked at ours was there when they came in. They were vocal about this mad farmer who will shoot you if he caught you on his property.
Never had another poacher on the place from that day forward.

This was a good 40 years ago so the outcome would be different today and not recommending this as the course if action to take, but in the day, it solved the problem.