- Location
- Brant County, Ontario
Was it tough finding a place to hunt that had a lot of pigs in it?
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Ardent
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Sort of, the public hunting areas have them but they're flighty, and mostly nocturnal. I then hunted private land with a guide on the windward / wet side (jungle, the other side is desert) and there was a ridiculous number of pigs, like a dozen opportunities an hour kind of deal. Most are sows and immatures mind you, the good boars are wary. As an aside the locals castrate trapped wild pigs and release them, and they become much larger through a mechanism I've forgotten and likely didn't properly understand when explained to me (I farmed growing up, but not pigs). Most of the monster boars (and I mean the once a year brutes for the guides) are castrated, re-released animals.
- Location
- Lumby Town!!
For those wondering about getting the meat home from NZ, remember that all game animals in NZ are considered pests, so there is no regulation to keep any meat. Of course we all want sme meat from out kills, but in NZ it's a little different , as one of the main mandates there is for hunters to control animal numbers. So local hunters will often only take the back straps and the hind end from their animals. I've been told to try and take 3 hind Tar for every bull Tahr shot. It sometimes doesn't sit well with our "Canadian" way of thinking, but that's how they do it there.
With zero predators for the ungulates...man quite literally is the only means of population control.
Yeah I havnt read the thread as of Yet, but NZ is the hunters island..
DIY is so so so possible, for the Hunter adventurer man. Sleep in sleeping Bags under Flys or in Bivvy, as there is no animals to Harm the hunter, no Snakes or Spiders unlike Aussie..
There is Roads around the Island and you can litterily Park at the carpark an Hike up a River system an spend X Days in the Sleeping bag, or if you are Close to the Huts scattered throughout, You purchase Hut Tickets off DOC $6 an place one in the Box at the front...
Also DOC "permits" can be obtained Online and last the 12 months, temp firearms license is User friendly...
Im looking to move there for 12-18 months in the next 12 months or so.... Where it will be hunt hunt hunt work, hunt.. cannot wait.
Australia on the other hand... I live in the South East... Sambar country.. Can help yas out..
WL
DIY is so so so possible, for the Hunter adventurer man. Sleep in sleeping Bags under Flys or in Bivvy, as there is no animals to Harm the hunter, no Snakes or Spiders unlike Aussie..
There is Roads around the Island and you can litterily Park at the carpark an Hike up a River system an spend X Days in the Sleeping bag, or if you are Close to the Huts scattered throughout, You purchase Hut Tickets off DOC $6 an place one in the Box at the front...
Also DOC "permits" can be obtained Online and last the 12 months, temp firearms license is User friendly...
Im looking to move there for 12-18 months in the next 12 months or so.... Where it will be hunt hunt hunt work, hunt.. cannot wait.
Australia on the other hand... I live in the South East... Sambar country.. Can help yas out..
WL
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Loud whump whump whump Machines with Hanging Basket and letters 1080 printed on it.
trust me, they arnt scared to use it either
WL
Ardent
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Hawaii's the same, the feral wild goats are shoot on sight and as many as possible, nannies even better, locals don't take the meat except for dogs. Canadian sensibilities on hunting definitely don't apply worldwide, as we're lucky here everything's indigenous.
- Location
- Brant County, Ontario
New Zealand is sounding better and better.
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Loud whump whump whump Machines with Hanging Basket and letters 1080 printed on it.
trust me, they arnt scared to use it either
WL
I was hoping you'd chime in. I always read your posts because I find the hunts very interesting.
Having lived in Australia, I agree with the regulations sentiment. My impression was that the lawmakers tend to regulate everything more than needed.
I wish I was into hunting when I lived there. I look back at it as an opportunity wasted.
From what we saw in New Zealand, the opportunities to collect some meat for the average hunter are pretty decent but for those interested in hunting large antlers, the quality hunting was pretty well limited to private property and the majority of access is controlled by large outfitters or the landowner wants to be paid. From what we saw, if you had deep pockets it's a hunter's paradise but for the average guy hunting public lands, the opportunities were much more limited. Tahr are the one exception to that. Hard work can definitely score you a good tahr!
True enough. I did see one guide offering full service on Red Stag for $6000 which included a lot of the fees. I believe that was for a red stag in the 340 range which I assume is a fair trophy.
I don't care too much about massive antlers as any hunt in NZ would be special to me. I'd definitely be bringing back whatever rack I did get, regardless of size. The experience is the trophy, the antlers would just be a physical representation of it.
I think the idea of Red Stag and Tahr hunt came to me after watching Steven Rinella hunt them on his TV show. It just looks like the kind of hunting I like to do. Can't wait to get back to Alberta next fall. I hope I draw a Mule deer or Elk this year but I'm happy to hunt white-tailed deer again. It's night and day hunting compared to Ontario bush.
Ardent
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Spring black bear in Beautiful Pemberton BC
Pitch your tent in my front yard, next to the vegetable patch.
Unfortunately for those of us in BC, black bears are like rabbits, as you well know a full quarter of all the black bears in Canada live here. For those outside BC, this isn't possible due to the regs. Looking for adventures, especially out of season and in winter, you can do well outside your usual haunts on a reasonable budget. And most importantly:
If you are Canadian and friends with a resident hunter of BC you can be sponsored to hunt here for general open season hunts where numbers are deemed to be plentiful enough. Black bears are pretty much a slam dunk. I successfully sponsored a fellow Ontario hunter a few years ago the process went very smoothly. Not a pay for hunt scenario but it is definitely an option.
If you are Canadian and friends with a resident hunter of BC you can be sponsored to hunt here for general open season hunts where numbers are deemed to be plentiful enough. Black bears are pretty much a slam dunk. I successfully sponsored a fellow Ontario hunter a few years ago the process went very smoothly. Not a pay for hunt scenario but it is definitely an option.
The hunter host program is really a great thing. My uncle lives in Alberta which is how I got to go out there this fall. It was an awesome experience.
If you are paying by size in New Zealand count on it being a fenced hunt. If you see anyone with a stag over 320, count on it being a fenced hunt.
Fair point. I recall thinking that when I read the details, but I guess it slipped my mind when posting about it. They also had something like 20,000 acre archery hunt for $1500.
Fenced hunting isn't my style.
Some excellent free range hunting for stags in New Zealand as well but it's still typically pay to play on private property. We did a free range hunt there a few years ago and it was awesome. It took this stag. Not a monster but I was very pleased.
