shit yes man this is one helluva video! this is exactly what I wanna do one day! thanks for sharing the trip! good hunting with good company! cant beat that
Mark Hansen the bird life was the best I’ve seen! So many different species! Could have made the video 40 minutes long with all the bird footage. No idea the culling was happening.. thought it was a bit shit during ballot period! Bloody lucky we were up that ridge I pointed out the day before
khan adam which ridge? Haha jk. This was ballot time? Oh that's shit. Culling should be after eh. Understand it needs to happen but give the Hunters first crack eh. Avg. Did you put a suggestion in the suggestion box after the trip?
@@bushbash37 Began possum control in there before the ballot blocks opened about 1993, tried ground hunting but it didn't get them down enough and went to aerials. Interesting to see comments by other experts blaming the lack of birdlife there on the 1080. The yellowheads have spread back towards the coast from a low of about 20, so they don't read the Dead Forest Facts. Tahr were rare where this hunt happened, a little group behind camp & less at the bend the only usuals, but the head was full of mobs as far as the bush went. They're now everywhere in numbers. Provides for easy hunting, but misplaced expertise by many. Any deer sign there? They (& chamois) were rare too from camp up. Beaut old bull too.
@@mysteryman662 10c is the control has been a stuff up. The ballot sites were for control, not trophy dedicated hunts. They were not expecting to contribute useful tallies as records & a trial showed general hunters incapable of much more than disturbance. The idea being disturbance from the valley bottom hunting would push the tahr up to where the helicopters could shoot and recover them for carcass sale, concurrently, when snow conditions were good. Alternatively alternate the Adams and Landsborough annually. That got scuttled from all sides, the hunter lobby and some Doc PR obsessed pushed to aerial hunt at the wrong time (and wrong machines & pilots with overweight amateurs shooting with shotguns) etc, and DoC refused to exclude bulls from carcass recovery permits (in the park, where we sold carcasses for a couple of seasons) which stuffed the market when an operator targeted bulls deliberately to frustrate others. Subsequently chasing them around the Alps in helicopters was too much taxpayer fun for some DoC staff (probably still is) so hence wary tahr spread everywhere, The fact average joe hunter can be successful is due to there being so many a bit of effort can hardly fail. As to what ridge, it doesn't matter now. Even where DoC are culling there are plenty left.
