Our earliest paid cullers worked for the Acclimatisation societies, where these shooters were encouraged to spare trophy-potential deer, and destroy inferior and ill-conditioned animals, in an effort to protect the future status of the herds and the revenue that stag seasons generated for cash-strapped societies.
If any Otago valley can boast consistency in giving up some of the finest red deer heads stalkers could wish for, it has to be the Young River – while in South Westland, the location with a parallel reputation would be the Waiatoto River.
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