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.