Help Control the Numbers - Kaikoura Goat Cull
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2021
- Feral goats pose a serious threat to New Zealand's native wildlife, primarily our native plants. For this trip we set off into the Kaikoura ranges with the aim to help reduce the local goat population and hopefully find a pig or a deer for some meat for the freezer.
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You guys are fast becoming one of my favourite hunting youtube channels... Every video is more epic than the last!
Good on ya Sam! Cheers
I've learned from over 20 years in the Army, never leave home without some baby wipes.
Wise words 😂
My mate and I actually been to that hut after you guys. We laughed our asses off to the notes on the hut book about you having the worst time carrying water up from the creek, nice to put some faces to the story lol. We shot 2 pigs not far from the hut and killed about 7 goats, we could have killed at least 30 goats tho but we were low on ammo. Amazing job with the video
Hahah that water better of been the best you've ever had 😂 good shit! jealous of the pigs! Cheers mate 🍻
any chance I could get the name of the hut? would love to go up kaikoura for a goat cull myself. Cheers
Great job dudes! Glad to see you helping NZ with the control of ferals. Those goats are causing havoc on the land. Terrible soil erosion in some spots you show in the shoots. Thanks for sharing.
Running shingle country and the Kaikoura earthquakes contribute. The goats (and other species, tahr probably being worst) selectively destroy the palatable plants as is evident, in preferred sites they cause local erosion. So do deer, like goats they eat most plants when needed.
Realistically hunting only reduces impacts significantly locally, like near huts etc. unless done by professionals (whose quality varies) or large animals being commercially valuable & accessible, like commercial deer/tahr recovery in open country.
Absolutely. As recreational hunters we should be doing more to control them. Keep killin' them.
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I LOVE this video. Seriously, it was like I got a mini-vacation in paradise out of it. Keep putting them up!
First video of yours that I've seen and it's bloody awesome! Looking forward to watching more of them.
That's awesome to hear, cheers mate! Enjoy the vids 🍻
That was a good ep Fellas, enjoyed it. lots of laughs and epicness. Great shooting / culling and taking out the kids with the mothers too. Onyas!
Onya mate 👍
Awesome video, Many thanks from Lismore NSW Australia
Look like awsome time, good to see some fellow s.island hunters rippin it up!
Brilliant guys, can’t wait for your next hunt.
Great work and adventures there fellas. Nicely put together videos.
Cheers for the support mate, glad you enjoyed!
In the 60s, we would present the tails to the Forestry Dept and get paid 3/6 (35c) and 3 rounds of .303 ex WW2 ammo per tail. Deer were 5/- and 3 rounds.
Reinstating a program like that could really help the aim to control feral goat population! Cheers for the comment 👍
Thanks for pulling the numbers down some fellas - as for the falling goat....bloody funny!!!
Enjoyed that boys. We have nothing like that here in the UK, amazing !!
You look like a couple of tough dudes, bet you're good fun on a night out.
That's wot all the girls say lmfao
Great video and awesome footage, great work, thumbs up and regards.
Epic episode lads, that gaiter scene was next level stuff, haha.
Can't make that shit up 😂
Bloody loving your vids team, it's great watch actual hunting vids not just track hunting!
Cheers mate, it's where the good hunting is!
Enjoyed the video (except the bad language). Your videos are good and honest and made to a high standard.
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I've enjoyed your videos, this is the second time I watched this one!
I was trying to get a bead on what area you were in lol
I'm new to hunting goats, I had my first trip a couple of months ago down in and around Queenstown and shot three.
I'm not into culling really, normally hunt to put meat on the table and into the freezer.
But don't have a problem with those that do.
Love the video and drone work. Keep up the good work.
Love your work rate guys. Epic video
Cheers mate!
Man, Thats some tough territory up there..Really like the episode..RockOn 🤘😎🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Thanks mate, right back at ya! 🇳🇿
Well shot and edited guys!
Hi guys, in lockdown here on the sunny coast and found and subd to ur channel and am liking an watching my way thru all ur vids now, bout 10 down so far👍👍
Really love ur footage u have captured some epic shots which I really enjoy as have only hunted pigs for nearly 40yrs an have never pulled the trigger on a deer which is definitely on my bucket list 👍👍
My oldest son an i did a spur of the moment trip to the Sth island bout 2 months ago and were just blown away with the scenery (lake tekapo, mt cook etc etc) it was like epic is not an epic enough word to describe it👌
Stay safe boys 🤙
Will let all my mates no re ur channel so stick with it I think ur channel has huge potential 👍👍
Gidday mate, cheers for the comment! Glad you're enjoying the videos, we're bloody loving creating them. It's pretty awesome down those ways, we've got a bit of footage from an area around there which we might release in a month or two 👍 thanks mate
@@southislandriflewalkers5545 too easy mate👍
Stay safe boys 🤙
Awesome video!
good work lads :) loved the laugh
Subscribed …excellent vids …👍👍
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Another ripper video boys
Kaikoura was my old home town, and I got a fair idea where you are, I avoided them steep shale places, where one step up, meant two steps sliding back down most of the time lol
Was a lot of fun bowling the goats for target practice now and then, especially at the end of a pig hunt or deer stalking trip, but i begrudged using big bullets on them ...... just gets toooooo dear lol
Good on yous, you certainly earned them goats
Used to use a 22 magnum and 22 Hornet back in the day on them
Raddy looks like he'd be just as much at home, paddling round on a surf board just down the road at Maungamanu lol
Cool i'm the 100th "like"
Awww yeah, and the shit paper plant is Mullein or cowboys toilet paper...... i've used them a few times, (saved tearing the collar or sleeve off ya shirt lol)
Hahah yeah mate the .223 or .17 would've been a much cheaper option, something we'll keep in mind if we head out for goats again. Cheers for the comment Bob 👍
Awesome stuff blokes
Cheers fellas 🍻
G' Day from the big West Island!
Nice work.
Goat rib and eye fillet is top tucker. On the occasions I have served it up to some "slightly sensitive" folk; it was offered as "low-fat" lamb, and seemed to go down well..
The legs roast up nicely, as well. Low and slow; with a bit of a rub of olive oil and some rosemary and garlic....
Obviously, in your part of the world, there is a LOT of vertical walking involved in carcass retrieval, unlike here, where we often hunt them on dead-flat plains and with the aid of motorbikes to eat up some of the distances involved.
Sounds delicious, we'll have to pack a cast iron and some ingredients in our pack for next time!
Haha yep the animals are usually held up in the worst spots... Lucky for you guys on the other hand!
Cheers
Legends at it again! Cait wait for the merch order. Come and cull some roos in Aus too!
Cheers mate! I heard they're a bit of a problem, you shoot many roos yourself?
@@southislandriflewalkers5545 for sure. Plenty farmers over here get destruction permits because the roos damage the property and over run the place. We try to go help out every few weeks with the .223 when ever possible.
nice bit of culling guys, keep it up, and good hunting
Hi Guys your doing great vids. Ive watched and shared all. One thing I’m always interested in is what setups we use for specific hunts like choice of rifle, caliber and ammunition used being factory or if handloaded with component data. Your editing is great with relevant cutaways to birds water boots bushes etc it’s all part of what we encounter on the hill and adds to the interest
Keep them coming- oh it’s good to see you young fellas eating your greens your mums taught you well😋 regards from lockdown rex in melbourne 👍🏽
Cheers mate, glad you're enjoying them!
Loads of goats good job mate
Great video, fantastic landscape except for the goat devastation and very different from Australia.
Good shooting. Really enjoy your videos.
That is some gorgeous but rough country!
Top shooting, video and rifle.
Cheers for that mate! Glad you enjoyed
Now if doc just donated ammo and fuel to all hunters..you'd quickly see the goat population drop
I’d settle for airfare
Probably see the naïve goat population reduced a bit & the rest put out of sight and rapidly become difficult to reduce in a meaningful way (about 50% a year). Survivors quickly adapt, efficient shooters are rare. Check how many videos show nearly all animals encountered killed, no survivors is the top standard. On private land goats would become protected by many (like deer etc.) for owners mates. It might be a useful public relations exercise though, and would only cost the same as a couple of the spin doctors who will be providing reasons why not.
So a population of wary animals harder to find is the likely result. The tahr are a classic example of this, doing everything to make them wary and spread without meaningful control. Includes DoC aerial operations, which have been botched for decades.
A bounty on tokens (e.g. tails) for tahr would be potentially interesting. For tahr, about $50 each for a couple of seasons. Cheaper than what DoC can waste them for and enough for commercial carcass recovery if allowed at will. Cue aghast recreational hunter reaction, but tahr increasing to 3-5x the target maximum population by prioritizing rec hunters and DoC aerial shoots (another form of rec hunting as results show) demonstrates their actual ability to provide any meaningful population control (they couldn't even control the bulls).
@@johnmead8437 naive goats??
@@dunruden9720 Goats are usually naturally curious and not particularly wary when not hunted (unlike many deer species) by hunters shooting or dogging that allow some to escape.
While dead goats don't get wary, survivors of incomplete hunting do so rapidly, and become very difficult to hunt successfully and educate their companions. A problem for successful pest control, and why efforts in those locations by most hunters are not actually contributing positively.
Where pest control is not being done, their efforts probably slow the rate of increase of some species, keep numbers in check in the easier sites and provide the hunting experience.
Cheers boys. Pretty mean watch. No mucking around with you lot 😎
very good effort
Stoked to have come across a page with plenty of videos worth watching! On a side note, what suppressor have you got on? Does a bloody good job! Keep it up 👌
Cheers mate! Sorry for such a slow reply! Gunworks in Christchurch made mine up 👍
Good shooting indeed !! What do you do with all the goats you shoot ? Are you allowed to sell the meat? The pelts make good soft leather for use as gloves / accessories.
Oops, I forgot, we have that ass wipe plant also, we call it mullien. Can make a tea from it, but NOT after you wipe your butt with it! I have to tell you, forgetting toilet paper is a major party foul! First thing in my pack, THEN the rifle.
Hahah thats some great advice 😂
awesome video 👍 nice place to live with that fresh meat available all around
Thanks mate 👍 we're spoilt rotten here in New Zealand, it's an incredible place to live
@@southislandriflewalkers5545 looks like that yes. ;)
Beautiful country, but it takes some very tough sons of guns to hike through it. Wow!
Crazy thought but true..... crazy how pretty the coats on some of these goats are.... just like the varied and beautiful colors of pigeons can be, even though they are both pest species. Have you guys ever eaten any of the goat meat, and if so was it good?
They're definitely pretty varied! Yeah we've eaten a bit of it, it's not bad in a curry or the slow cooker- good dog tucker. Definitely not a favourite though, we leave a lot of it out there in all honesty
@@southislandriflewalkers5545 Thanks buddy!
Good footage once again fellas ,I have the same Nikon camera wat do u find best way to get videos onto phone ?cheers
We get all the files onto a computer and just transfer from there, I think nikon has an app called 'snapbridge' which let's you go straight from camera to phone
Goat on your gaiter 😂🤘
Liked and Sub’d
You fallas are pretty mean though, 🦌🐗💪💯
Awesome! Going to NZ in the next few years and want to hunt some goats by Marlborough.
Be a lot easier guys if you had a couple of ropes. One pushing the drums up, the other holding them, so the climber has a little more freedom to move.
Great video though, awesome country. Originally from ChCh, but live in Oz now. Makes me want to come back for it, almost
That would've been wise! Ropes something we should be carrying, so many uses
Now that was fun to watch. Hello from central Minnesota. Where it smells like a camp fire because Canada is on fire and the wind is blowing this way! The world is a better place when young fella's like you have fun in a good way with guns. What cartridge?
It showed that it’s a.308, Tikka T3 rifle
Nice one lads, the things we do eh. Tu meke alright
Cheers mate 🍻
It's considered poor form to throw goats at your hunting partner!
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Fucking brilliant effort fellas....keep up the good work....
A goat getting caught in a gaiter is something I've never seen or experience in the Southern Alps till now haha
We like to do things differently 😂
Hey mate, would you please be able to share the name of the hut, would love to get into there and take a few goats for the pot, and am yet to do so on south island public land. An area like this would probably be a good place to start. Thankyou :)
Kahutara bivvy
Do you leave them out there ??? Or do you go back for them later
mean vid Boyz love bitter humour aswell keep it up
Thinking of heading over from Nelson. Was this road public access? Or did you get permission from the land owner? I want to get some arrows wet and this looks like a good place.
Have to get access, might of been $50 off memory!
Good work Lads. Just don't be tightarses on the ammo next time and take more than a box and a half.
What was that hut called I think I've been here before
Bangers, mash and gravy is pretty hard to beat. Goats can be good tucker too if you treat the meat with respect you'd give to veni. I'msure that when they bleat and then come rolling down the shingle chute and land at your feet that is goat speak for "shove me in a sausi mate"! Nice to throw in a goat with your veni off cuts when making sausies.we should eat more goats, Thanx for sharing the trip.
Wawu what a shots
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8:50 haha that was the funniest shit ive seen this week, thanks. Would a 6mm be enough caliber for these goats?
Hahah yeah most definitely mate!
Iberians introduced these goats 500 years ago. I call them Oceanian black-and-ivory goats because they're found in Australia and New Zealand. Rangeland goats in Australia are invasive. It's very likely that New Zealand ones aren't invasive. They should be protected.
I play The Hunter Call of The Wild, and it's nothing like this, but it got me into hunting feral goats. I want to fly to Hawaii or NZ just to hunt them now.
Fark
Funny as fuck
Good shooting, take out all you can.
Question, why isn't the hut closer to the water source???
How to see more 👍🏻
Cheers mate 👍 that's a very good question hahah there was a tank which fills off rainwater but that was pretty much dry
Does the government pay you for every head culled? That could help offset the cost of ammo, etc. In some states the pelt of a coyote in heavy winter coat is worth up to $85.00 USD. Nice furry collar on winter jacket.
There are paid goat cullers working for our department of conservation, not sure how their pay works (hourly or per animal etc...) They usually use dogs as well. It would be a fantastic initiative, I heard they used to do something like that back in the day!
Great shooting, hope you donated all that meat to charity.
what happens with the goat after its shot? collected or left?
We usually take a bit for dog food and the odd curry/slow cooker but it's more for pest control than food
Where is this place
Do you know how much sellers in my country
What kind of go pro and drone do you guys use?
Dji mini 2 drone
Yeap the dji mini 2 and a gopro 9 👍
Not bad lads!
Glad to see someone eats the goats meat!
Do you just leave them where they fall?
We try not to, usually try and harvest as much meat as possible. This trip was a culling mission though, with it being a backpacking trip there's only so much we can carry 👍
How long is that barrel?.
It was a standard length tikka and had 2 inches taken off when the suppressor was put on to make the rifle a bit shorter overall.
You guys ever fancy a third wheel and I’m back home in the country, lemme know! Sick of being an Auckland city slicker when I get back to New Zealand on vacation. Never seen the real wild country in my damned thirty years of life in NZ and I’ve been stuck in Tokyo for the last ten years!
You're missing out mate! We're bloody lucky here 👌
I thought i know english but now i see i was wrong
Good job cleaning up those goats. Looks like a good spot to chase them with a bow. 🤙🤙
Bloody oath, when I eventually get into bowhunting I think goats would be a great introduction to larger game
Do you guys eat them?
We usually give goat meat to our dogs, you might of seen us trying to chew through some fried backsteak at the end of the vid. It's not bad in a stir fry or a curry but we much prefer venison!
They are nice meat to eat with coconut 🥥 cream and turmeric
Goat Goats
Wow~~ fantastic duo hunting channel!! Amszing👊 😀
498 like- & new friend🔔💕🔔💕
shooting on a ridge.. if you miss where will the bullet go?
When are you referring to?
So you guys don't eat goat ??
can I apply for a job doing pest control, as a foreigner?
Unfortunately not... It's pretty rare to come by even as a Kiwi!
Hope you made good mutton biryanis put of these goats.
good shooting Blokes
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You can hunt with supressers?!?
Yeah they're very common over here! Much nicer to shoot, no need for earplugs and they take a bit off the kick
@@southislandriflewalkers5545 oh my gosh....
It is against the law for me to hunt with one.
What does it cost to purchase one? Additional fees or taxes?
@@tiredofitall999 I'll answer this one for you. Nope, there is no tax or fees (or paper work) to purchase a suppressor in NZ. You simply buy one the right size with the correct threads for your rifle, attach it and you're good to go. As for cost, between NZ$300-500 (US$180-300).
is this not a over hunting guys?
Was more of a pest control trip than a hunting trip 👍
Should have tagged someone along for mutton biryani..
You're not wrong there.. If only we knew the goat Numbers before going in!
I hope you guys utilize all the meat
Is meat from a mature billy goat any good ? We have some wild boar and people won't eat the males , buck deer aren't much good either
Its ecological recycling invasive introduced pests, not waste.
Particularly in rough areas like this. One of the delusions many seem to carry is about wasted meat from pest species.
If accessible and easy for the individual to recover it, they have that choice if they have a use for it, including gifting. And if an alternative value exists (like commercial sale of wild deer carcasses, currently not applicable, or trophy heads etc) shooting to waste is not ideal.
But most wild animals are in pest numbers in NZ now in many places, and our hunting laws allow the hunter to choose how to dispose of kills. excluding sale (due to disease etc)
@@johnmead8437 I’m from Pennsylvania in the USA and I’ve always since the first time I pulled the trigger I eat what I kill I hunt every year for 4 houses and nothing goes to waste I’m also Native American and for hundreds of years our people only hunted and killed for what we needed I understand what your saying about to many animals but it just seems to be a waste to let them just rot
@@mikemikolon3949 Different lands. The situation in NZ is similar to your wild pig issue, invasive pest with some value to some interests. Some species have commercial value, and if enough this has provide some control for ecological and agriculture protection, the helicopter deer recovery and tahr meat was effective where the animals could be recovered.
This should be encouraged more, but it is dependent on export markets (buy NZ venison!) and the economics of operating helicopters.
Some areas are selected for ecological protection control, usually employing hunters or for possums/rats using poison to keep numbers as low as possible, something controversial to many for whom the majority balance of NZ where no pest control is done isn't big enough for them.
Hunting in NZ is not licensed, just need a firearms licensed & gun, and permission to hunt on the land which is via a cost free permit on Department of Conservation land, the majority of public hunting areas.
@@johnmead8437 I completely understand and agree
Cant believe you sailors are going to waste all that goat meat
انك تحارب الطبيعه يامعتوه
hunt and eat👍
good shootin boys
So you're not harvesting them for food? Seems like a waste to me.
No, unfortunately meat does go to a waste when doing a cull like this. If these goats were shot close to a 4wd track then they'd for sure get utilized. However in a remote area like this it's just not feasible in a culling operation. Cheers
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