Hunting banned in NZ

[Jeremy11]

The NZ Govt has just announced that hunters are not permitted to hunt public land in New Zealand. No fishing either. Everyone is advised to stay at home unless shopping for necessities. Strangely, it is still OK to go for a walk if you keep away from others. It probably won't stop some hunters from going out, as tags are not required. Not sure what the penalty is, if any.
I wonder if this might happen in the USA if the virus threat increases over a long period of time.

 

[ozyclint]

just in time for the rut of all the deer.

 

[prm]

Sounds like your politicians are about as smart as ours. What are the odds of catching, or spreading, a virus while hunting? Roughly 0%? So why implement that kind of policy? It’s a race to see who can do the ‘most’, not who can make the smartest decisions.

 

[Jeremy11]

Sounds like your politicians are about as smart as ours. What are the odds of catching, or spreading, a virus while hunting? Roughly 0%? So why implement that kind of policy? It’s a race to see who can do the ‘most’, not who can make the smartest decisions.

I tend to agree with you prm, they need to be smarter. But at the same time not doing enough makes things 1,000 times worse. I was planning an Elk hunt in ID this Sept which will very likely be impossible for me, but that's OK. I even bought a new bow for it online and had it sent to a friend in ID. There's always another year.

 

[Wapiti1]

My concern would be what your hunting rights look like after. Seems like a great way to get rid of those pesky hunters and a few more firearms if possible. The reasoning for shutting down hunting would be a stretch at best, which makes my mind wander to nefarious reasons for doing so.

Hope I'm wrong. My conspiracy prone mind sees parallels to what our nitwit democrats are doing with aid package legislation. Instead of getting it done, they are leveraging panic to force law that could otherwise never pass. Shameful.

Jeremy

 

[Jblodgett]

It’s going to be a long year...

 

[Wolf13]

In CA they started small but slowly have made it harder and harder for people to get into hunting. Hope things get back to normal there once this is done.

My concern would be what your hunting rights look like after. Seems like a great way to get rid of those pesky hunters and a few more firearms if possible. The reasoning for shutting down hunting would be a stretch at best, which makes my mind wander to nefarious reasons for doing so.

Hope I'm wrong. My conspiracy prone mind sees parallels to what our nitwit democrats are doing with aid package legislation. Instead of getting it done, they are leveraging panic to force law that could otherwise never pass. Shameful.

Jeremy

 

[Jeremy11]

My concern would be what your hunting rights look like after. Seems like a great way to get rid of those pesky hunters and a few more firearms if possible. The reasoning for shutting down hunting would be a stretch at best, which makes my mind wander to nefarious reasons for doing so.

Hope I'm wrong. My conspiracy prone mind sees parallels to what our nitwit democrats are doing with aid package legislation. Instead of getting it done, they are leveraging panic to force law that could otherwise never pass. Shameful.

Jeremy

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.

 

[FLAK]

Yeah. Ummh, that makes sense right?
Don't be around other people, oh and don't go hunting either.

 

[Rich M]

The NZ Govt has just announced that hunters are not permitted to hunt public land in New Zealand. No fishing either. Everyone is advised to stay at home unless shopping for necessities. Strangely, it is still OK to go for a walk if you keep away from others. It probably won't stop some hunters from going out, as tags are not required. Not sure what the penalty is, if any.
I wonder if this might happen in the USA if the virus threat increases over a long period of time.

I'm in FL and supposedly a bunch of beaches, parks, and launching ramps are closed right now. The guys are out turkey hunting tho.

 

[Nickofthewoods]

So is the intended logic by the government in NZ to "Stop doing anything that could possibly land you in the hospital amidst the infected while taking up a critical hospital bed that is now being used on your broken leg"?

Some of the best fishing near me is already closed to the public as well. What a bummer this is becoming on all levels.

 

[Gatorgrizz27]

I'm in FL and supposedly a bunch of beaches, parks, and launching ramps are closed right now. The guys are out turkey hunting tho.

FL guy out turkey hunting right now.

Not sure about NZ if there are no tags, season dates, restrictions, but I’ve predicted them shutting down hunting here due to law enforcement.

There’s a 500,000 acre national forest on the west side of town that last I heard was patrolled by 2 game wardens.

They will tell the wardens to stay home to prevent them from coming into contact with the virus.

“Oh, look, there’s no one to enforce the laws out there now, guess we have to shut it all down.”

They did the same thing after the hurricane came through, rather than just saying “some trails may be blocked by trees” like they are half the time anyways.

I’m not worried about this virus, but the economics impacts are scary, as well as how everyone is pleading to give up their rights and have the government protect/provide for them.

 

[manitou1]

Sounds like they are testing the waters.
I try to to the line to a "T". Haven't even had a traffic ticket since 1979... but if our gov tried this, I would make it a point to go hunting and fishing, even if I wasn't in the mood.

 

[BeastOfTheTrees]

Hope the Kiwis hunting comes back, regardless I’m sure any outdoorsman if they had to feed their family will continue to do so. I do not advocate poaching but I do advocate survival.

 

[Ndbowhunter]

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.

 

[Okhotnik]

I tend to agree with you prm, they need to be smarter. But at the same time not doing enough makes things 1,000 times worse. I was planning an Elk hunt in ID this Sept which will very likely be impossible for me, but that's OK. I even bought a new bow for it online and had it sent to a friend in ID. There's always another year.

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[Nick Muche]

Anyone have a link to something that states what they did?

 

[Nick Muche]

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[Savage99]

FL guy out turkey hunting right now.

Not sure about NZ if there are no tags, season dates, restrictions, but I’ve predicted them shutting down hunting here due to law enforcement.

There’s a 500,000 acre national forest on the west side of town that last I heard was patrolled by 2 game wardens.

They will tell the wardens to stay home to prevent them from coming into contact with the virus.

“Oh, look, there’s no one to enforce the laws out there now, guess we have to shut it all down.”

They did the same thing after the hurricane came through, rather than just saying “some trails may be blocked by trees” like they are half the time anyways.

I’m not worried about this virus, but the economics impacts are scary, as well as how everyone is pleading to give up their rights and have the government protect/provide for them.

My buddy went ahead and hunted our quota hunt that year.


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[Ndbowhunter]

Take it back. It does effect hunters. My mate isn’t allowed even up to the runoff block.