Thread: Thermal Optics under scrutiny?

Originally Posted by BRADS

I think your last paragraph is the problem.
I have no problem with the Hunter that goes out once a month to shoot a meat animal, all I'd say to that person when you shoot your one in a group of 5 try knock the other 5 over as well, then you get 5 sets of back steaks easy win for your freezer and the hills.
I do realsie that there is property's around with deer high numbers but I don't buy into the private land being the problem, all the farms around here use chopper shooting twice a year, we have cullers coming in at night with thermal gear doing all the farms in the area.
All at our cost and these animals are all coming from the forest parks.
I'm just trying to offer a farmers view on it we often get accused of not doing our bit, but the gates open from the park and that the hunters not doing there bit.

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It's a shared, cross-tenure problem.

Forests provide shelter.

Pastoral land provides feed.

There is not enough feed in the Ruahine forest to support a fraction of the population of deer. The most available and practical place to target deer for control is in open pastoral country.

Unfortunately with cross-tenure problems come different sets of values, and different priorities.

Originally Posted by gimp

It's a shared, cross-tenure problem.

Forests provide shelter.

Pastoral land provides feed.

There is not enough feed in the Ruahine forest to support a fraction of the population of deer. The most available and practical place to target deer for control is in open pastoral country.

Unfortunately with cross-tenure problems come different sets of values, and different priorities.

Yeah I get that 100%
But hunters need to step up when you can get to the tops with your kids and see mobs of deer running around that arnt frequenting farmland I believe there's the issue.
It's no secret that numbers out of hand, as a kid you'd never see a single deer around here now people are hitting them in cars on the road.
The first people to complain when the choppers come and do search and destroy is the hunters.


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bit of a problem to Brads with hunters ability's -- roar time down the lake at Waikaremoana 12 visiting hunters 5-6 day trip - all drinking up large -little bit of hunting effort 6 deer - same period of time our top two local meat hunters 10-12 deer -