Hunting banned in NZ

[Jeremy11]

Pretty hard to poach an animal on public land in New Zealand. Dare I say impossible. Maybe trespassing or something to that affect if you enter a ballot block. But not poaching.

Normally nzed relies heavily on hunters to keep population numbers in check.

this won’t be too long of a ban.

Taxinda is gonna do whatever she likes. The public gave her a blank check for expansion of government into people’s lives after Christchurch

That said you might as well go full stop war on CoVID, the economy is tanked over there anyways. Reap what you sow. The fallout of going into bed with the Chins.

this doesn’t affect a lot of deer hunters that I know anyways. Most good deer hunting is on private.

Ps no kiwi’s are going hungry. There’s enough cows and sheep to last along long long time.

Spent an afternoon yarning with a kiwi army officer few years back. It was over in Te awanga (hawkes bay) he gave me a bunch of 24 hour rations. Beats the hell out of backpackers cousine. Anyways I was surprised how small the kiwi army is. 5,000 or so if memory serves. I don’t think they can “call in the military” like the threat is over here in the states.

we debated long and hard about weathering the storm in New Zealand the last couple of weeks. The threat of hunting and surfing while the world goes nuts (playing fiddle while Rome burns) had a certain appeal. My mate offered to let us stay in their mother-in-law suite.

but I’m an American. I need to be here.

You're right about the economy being hit hard. Tourism from many different countries is our No. 1 income earner (if you individualise agricultural exports) and that has just fallen to zero! Australia provided 39% of our tourists in 2019, China 10% and USA 9%.
No doubt our meat and dairy exports will be way down too and with the Govt stimulus, there is going to be a huge national debt that'll take years to recover from.
This virus is more about how it's hits economies than health in some/many countries.
Missing one hunting season doesn't bother me.

 

[Ndbowhunter]

I could flick you a pm but care to share how things are in your neck of the woods?

My mate said they got 130 geese the other week so freezer is plenty stocked. But sucks to miss the roar cuz taxinda wanted to show the boys she can lift a leg and piss.

 

[Jeremy11]

I could flick you a pm but care to share how things are in your neck of the woods?

My mate said they got 130 geese the other week so freezer is plenty stocked. But sucks to miss the roar cuz taxinda wanted to show the boys she can lift a leg and piss.

NZ hunting organisations are right behind the Govt in encouraging hunters to stay at home, and IMO that's the right thing to do. If the general public sees hunters flouting the rules it gives all of us a bad rep and more or less says that the rules everyone else has to follow, don't apply to us.
DOC has revoked hunting permits for public land, apparently, which will make hunting n public land an offence.

 

[Ndbowhunter]

I’d make a piss poor kiwi.

 

[Jeremy11]

I’d make a piss poor kiwi.

You'd be OK mate. You have the local vernacular!

 

[roosiebull]

Fortunately both L and R stream parties in NZ are really not so far apart in allowing people to live their lives as they wish. We don't have the extremes that the US has, due mostly to our egalitarian society and relative isolation from the rest of the world. We are lucky in many ways. Hunting won't change long-term. It could well become more expensive though. Right now it's free.

hope things back to normal soon for you guys.... at least your outlook is good. i have a friend over there right now, curious to hear about his trip when he gets back. you live in a cool place, it's the one place out of country i could see myself living (probably not a realistic thought, just a thought) a lot of your culture seems like here 50yrs ago, hope you appreciate that aspect of where you live, that's a good thing.

 

[Jeremy11]

hope things back to normal soon for you guys.... at least your outlook is good. i have a friend over there right now, curious to hear about his trip when he gets back. you live in a cool place, it's the one place out of country i could see myself living (probably not a realistic thought, just a thought) a lot of your culture seems like here 50yrs ago, hope you appreciate that aspect of where you live, that's a good thing.

Quite a few people think the same way about moving to NZ. I travel a lot around the world and for me, NZ will always be the place I return to.
I hope your friend enjoyed his trip and gets back home without issues.