Hi All
I got the feeling from talking to people at the Sika Show 2016 that most hunters hunt on private land.  I'd like to get a better feel of this is the case so would appreciate you completing my poll.

Many thanks

Hi Mike thanks for this.  I'm gonna add another option "Private - concern over 1080" and move it to the hunting forum...if I can work out how to do this.

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I think I would take the 1080 one back out, as it is an invalid reason not to hunt public land. Because there is always public land without 1080, also if they do 1080 a block it opens back up to hunting later on.

Unless someone only hunts organic farms, then it would be a fair reason. Otherwise ridiculous.

I just think it has potential to ruin your results as it is such an emotional subject.

Public and private, private on free access only option missing

On a slight tangent TH, I visited an iconic South Island high country pass a few weeks ago. Not a cloud in the sky, Views to die for. The southern alps as far as the eye could see. As I turned up I spied a young lass standing in the middle of the open area, glued to her smartphone. I stayed there for 15 minutes having lunch. Not once in that entire time did she look up and take in the view. Her mind was completely engrossed with the 2 inch by 3 inch  piece of glass and circuitboard in her hand

Back on topic.  Most of my first 20 years hunting was on public land, (70's and 80's) And I very rarely bumped into anyone else. And if I did they came across as a reasoned and well balanced outdoors person type. Since then I have primarily hunted on difficult to access private land, and nowadays if I do go onto public land I generally don't feel those same fuzzies about the hunting types I bump into.....so I revert to hunting private land again. If I hunt public land I do it completely in cam, and take on the mindset that I too am being hunted, so that I don't offer myself as a potential target. I don't sit down on ridgelines to glass,  wherever possible I back into shrubs to do my glassing, I do a lot of sitting and listening, etc etc. Blaze beanies and jackets get shot  slightly more than moving bushes .....well that's my theory anyway

Also can you add

Public- Have access to private but prefer challenge of public then i can vote 

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Gonehunting, great minds think alike, - sometimes

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Bloody technology.
I can even send a text home on my InReach, from the deepest darkest valleys, from anywhere.
I blame Bill Gates

PS, what about, Private land deer arnt "Wild", Public land deer are
(I do realize once they know your there, any deer can bugga off quick )

When i think privite land i think farmland
This will piss people off, but for MYSELF i don't see any joy in shooting a deer on privite land and i don't see is hunting.
I live on a farm with fair numbers of wild deer and i haven't shot a deer here in over three years as it does nothing for me. I take my partner and father out for the odd deer and get MUCH more enjoyment out of watching them shoot.

Where i do alot of my hunting the Kawekas i very rarely see other hunters as my camps are about 4hrs+ tramp in and half of that is off the track. Most hunters are too lazy to go that far in the areas i go. I love the camping and the tramping and the whole deal of being away from it all and the rush you get from knowing anyone could shoot that deer. Shooting from a quad just dosen't tickle me. How ever i respect some people enjoy it and that is fine for me. Each to their own. I do get annoied when you see these so called hunting celbs shoot nothing but deer on green pasture, and then write big stories about it as i think it sets unrealistic examples for new hunters slugging their guts out in dog land.
No doupt this will piss someone off but it's my opinion.