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    If I were to buy a thermal, it would be to make the most of the very limited time I have to get into the hunting grounds, and maximize my opportunity to spot a deer, giving me the opportunity to shoot it. While hunting is always a pleasure, sometimes i actually would like to take home a deer. I'm not excellent at stalking, so I need all the help I can get!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin View Post
    If I were to buy a thermal, it would be to make the most of the very limited time I have to get into the hunting grounds, and maximize my opportunity to spot a deer, giving me the opportunity to shoot it. While hunting is always a pleasure, sometimes i actually would like to take home a deer. I'm not excellent at stalking, so I need all the help I can get!
    Are you a Wellington NZDA member?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahr View Post
    Are you a Wellington NZDA member?
    I'm not a member. Have considered it, but never took the next step.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin View Post
    I'm not a member. Have considered it, but never took the next step.
    Happy to host you in and get you engaged. Some good club hunts coming up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin View Post
    If I were to buy a thermal, it would be to make the most of the very limited time I have to get into the hunting grounds, and maximize my opportunity to spot a deer, giving me the opportunity to shoot it. While hunting is always a pleasure, sometimes i actually would like to take home a deer. I'm not excellent at stalking, so I need all the help I can get!
    This sums up my hunting, while I have more time I also have other demands on my time other than work. However I won't be buying one for now as that would mean working full time to pay for it, I would rather work less and save up which is what I'm trying to do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin View Post
    If I were to buy a thermal, it would be to make the most of the very limited time I have to get into the hunting grounds, and maximize my opportunity to spot a deer, giving me the opportunity to shoot it. While hunting is always a pleasure, sometimes i actually would like to take home a deer. I'm not excellent at stalking, so I need all the help I can get!
    I missed this earlier. This is the kind of honesty I was after in asking the 1080/pest questions.

    I understand your position and have no real problem with it.

    hell Id take you for a hunt any day. My overall worry is that hunters get too accustomed too using thermal. Right now thats no problem. But if the situation changes and we dont need it as a kill maximiser. Who would volunteer to give it up?

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    Quote Originally Posted by whanahuia View Post
    I missed this earlier. This is the kind of honesty I was after in asking the 1080/pest questions.

    I understand your position and have no real problem with it.

    hell Id take you for a hunt any day. My overall worry is that hunters get too accustomed too using thermal. Right now thats no problem. But if the situation changes and we dont need it as a kill maximiser. Who would volunteer to give it up?
    You know the funny part about this???? When guys are out in open targeting deer,the deer take to the bush...like they did to avoid airborne meathawks. The tahr learnt to dive into caves and deer in open learnt to lay down in any cover...and taught it to next generation. We will not whipe the herds out. Been tried for years.yes this could well thing them out BUT the lazy hunters will still be lazy. We have a whole heap of younguns whos idea of hunting is out window of ute on private land with spotlight or thermal...or shoot close to truck in daylight,often not even retrieving animal... They have zero interest in doing the hard yards to get animal in the bush and carry it out to eat..why bother when can buy KFC or Burger King??? We grew up through hard financial Times so our whole mindset to game animal meat is different. Along similar slippery slope lines. How many photos get published of stags shot in velvet??? Yet even ten years ago that was frowned upon. NZDA used to very much disapprove of shooting stag in velvet. Now that in many places numbers are high ,it's become more normal to do so...not my cuppa tea.
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