Hello,
I'm currently staying for a couple of days in the home of a pro deer culler near Rotorua North Island N.Z
There are skins, heads and awards for various animals brought down all around me here in the study.
This guy won the best head taken award in North Island from the N.Z deer stalkers assn for several years.
Every meat dish we eat here is venison based.
I've been out with a Maori hunting opossum with .22 and also trapping in leg hold traps for the fur, killing them first with a blow to the head then plucking them whilst still warm.
The organised pig hunts here are something else! The real hard guys go in with just a knife after the dogs have cornered a porker, hanging onto its ears until the hunter lifts up the pigs back legs and plunges the knife into its heart from below.
Not the right time of year for this but I may get to shoot a deer soon.
Feral cats here are fair game too, easy to spot as the eyes are greener than an opossums and they don't freeze when you shine a torch on them.
Later...x