the ballot blocks can still have other public land users on them at any time (trampers, anglers etc) but only the permitted party can hunt that area during that ballot period. huts are also for...
Liked On: 21-02-2024, 10:35 PM
Drive south for 4 and a half hours to the top of the Desert road. Park your car in the car park and walk East along the poled route into the Kaimanawa State Forest Park for 2 hours. Not a single...
Liked On: 14-02-2024, 08:39 PM
Hey guys, so me and my son have decided to set the wheels in motion for a November Tahr/Chamois hunt, then a couple days on a property through HQ for pigs/goats/Wallaby. From the research I have been...
Liked On: 14-02-2024, 03:32 PM
will say he done bloody well for a guy who got off the plane on friday. he cant post pics from his phone so here goes.243535 1st red , 1st shot over 100m , 305 down hill in shitty light. he will...
Liked On: 11-02-2024, 08:00 PM
It's complicated. Shooting more hinds certainly will not hurt - but it also may not help. There are density-dependent fecundity effects where releasing acute feed competition may increase the...
Liked On: 09-02-2024, 01:04 PM
Be given 2 free bullets for every tail we collect by the government or doc.
Liked On: 09-02-2024, 07:44 AM
I reckon the Tararuas is hard work, try the Ruahines or Aorangi's.
Liked On: 08-02-2024, 10:51 PM
We might want to be careful making generalisations across the country based on what we see locally. Perception often influences reality. If you hunt private blocks, farms or stations, I would...
Liked On: 08-02-2024, 12:40 PM
From my experience farmers severely underestimate how many deer graze on their properties, they don’t realise that 95% of them are coming out after dark, spending all night grazing and then...
Liked On: 08-02-2024, 12:38 PM
Great to see some people agreeing we have a problem that is growing rapidly. Hopefully, this means that there will be better acceptance when landowners, regional councils, and public land...
Liked On: 08-02-2024, 12:36 PM
Lentle knows a lot of stuff but not all of the stuff. Treat his books as guidelines rather than rules. The deer will still be on the very best feed areas scoffing up large in mainly discrete sex...
Liked On: 08-02-2024, 08:29 AM
Always cracks me up how people boast seeing "too many" deer in their "secret spot". Plenty of new and young hunters that would be keen if somebody showed them those "secret spots" of yours.
Liked On: 08-02-2024, 08:27 AM
^ We have since completely cleaned out Green Point, is very tidy since we left it.
Liked On: 30-01-2024, 09:48 AM
pm'd ya
Liked On: 24-01-2024, 09:33 PM
It depends on the wind, they come downhill out of cover (usually they use the same camping spot for quite a while) working into the wind - totally logical
Liked On: 24-01-2024, 10:44 AM