Thread: Thermal Optics under scrutiny?

Originally Posted by Tahr

Numbers. One wairarapa place I shoot next to have trapped 800 in 3 years. Another place Brian and I have shot 200 off and recently the farmer 30 in one go and we still see 20 or 30 odd most evenings. And on another 3 of us saw over 150 in 2 nights. Shot 4. And these places also have a chopper run through to cream them every year too. And the most heavily hunted public spot in the wairarapa is still full of deer. If these numbers aren’t got on top of one way or another it will be an environmental disaster in a couple more years. Everywhere I go the bush is stripped.
And the answer isn’t letting more hunters on. Picking at them won’t work.

I agree with you. Conversely over the last few years Ive seen what can be achieved by 2 guys with sole access too around 3000+ hectares.

I think the private land deer issue is one that needs solving. And solving that will go along way to reducing public land numbers.

But as Ive said, the average recreational hunter isn't concerned with control in reality. its about "easy" deer and controlling numbers works against that.

Whats your ideas for a solution?