Te Puka Tamariki Wild Game Hunt

2024 TAMARIKI WILD GAME HUNT

Welcome to our NEW hunting competition, The Tamariki Wild Game Hunt. We have seperated our open comp from our kids comp to make a really fun whanau day out.

This is where you can enter online and buy your "tickets" as your official entry.

ENTRY FEE: $10

STARTS: 12pm Thursday 11th July

FINISHES: 1pm Sunday 14th July (prizegiving to follow)

WEIGH IN: 11am - 1pm Sunday 14th July

Please read the following as this is where our official rules will be stated. By purchasing tickets you are agreeing to adhere to all competition rules, if you do not read the rules and find your animal/s are disqualified by our weigh masters at weigh in this will be at fault of the entrant.

RULES AND TERMS

• All competitors must be present at prize giving to claim their prize and/or spot prize
• Hunting starts Thursday 11th July 12pm, the competition and weigh-in closes
at 1pm Sunday 14th June. Prize giving to follow 
• All species to be caught during competition hours only
• All species must be wild and living in natural habitat
• No frozen species will be accepted
• Deer and Pigs must have heads, ears (and nuts for stags and boars) left intact, gutted and cleaned of offal. Possums, Peacocks, Turkeys and Hares must be left whole and guts intact. Only Goat heads will be assesed for the spread. No whole goats to be presented at weigh in, only goat heads to be measured.

• Officials reserve the right to earmark or tag (on the weigh station) any/all species
weighed to avoid confusion as not all species will be hung on display
• Judges decision is final
• The judges reserve the right to withhold prize money on any doubtful entry
• Minimum weight - Pigs 20kg, Deer 30kg
• All protests to be investigated within 15 minutes of final weigh-in
• The organisers and judges take no responsibility for damages, loss or injury
incurred during this event
• Species numbers per hunter:

• 2 red deer (hind or stag)
• 2 pigs (sow or boar)
• 2 hares
• 1 turkey
• 1 goat head
• 1 peacock weighed in, unlimited numbers for most peacocks prize
• 1 possum weighed in, unlimited numbers for most possums prize. Possums must be whole and unplucked to be counted

• Only the entered hunter is to catch and present the species at weigh-in and must be
present at the prizegiving to be eligible for prizes, including spot prizes
• Each hunter to weigh in all their species at the same time
• In the event of a draw, the first animal weighed in will claim the prize
• No species will be weighed in if it smells off or is deemed not fit for human consumption
• Only red deer are to be weighed
• Ground hunting methods only
• Weigh-in time - everyone from 11am - 1pm Sunday 14th July
If you are not in line and acknowledged by the marshall before the weigh-in closes,
you will not be eligible to weigh your species. No late weigh-ins or time extensions
will be given
• Entries close Wednesday 8pm 10th July – NO EXCEPTIONS.
• By entering this competition you acknowledge that you have read, understood and will
comply with the ‘Rules & Terms’ of the Te Puka Hunting and Fishing Club Inc – ‘Stag & Boar Hunting Competition 2024’

The club is not responsible for hunters under the age of 16 and any animals weighed in will be judged as per the Rules & Terms set out above