The Chopper Boys - New Zealand's Helicopter Hunters (1983) by Rex Forrester

This is a second-hand copy of the book The Chopper Boys - New Zealand's Helicopter Hunters (1983) by Rex Forrester. 

Condition: This is a used book in good condition. The soft cover is worn with creasing and rubbing - see photos.

Publisher: Whitcoulls
Year: 1983
ISBN: 0723307067
Format: Softback
Pages: 168
Condition: Used (Good)

This is the story of the chopper boys, the adventurers who risk their lives hunting deer from helicopters in New Zealand's remote mountains and, fiords. They are tough men in a tough environment and Rex Forrester doesn't pull any punches in this saga of danger, heroism, sweat and skill.

In the competitive venison industry the stakes are high and the pressures immense. Nerves are stretched to breaking point and adrenalin flows. The book tells of the 'meat hawk wars' - the allegations of poaching, the episodes of violence.

Backgrounding New Zealand's now-thriving deer-farming industry, Rex Forrester makes some hard-hitting criticisms of bureaucracy. He began his own working life as a Government deer culler and he tells of those days of appalling wholesale slaughter to eliminate a 'noxious' species. With the establishment of the deer farms came the need to capture live deer. Kiwi ingenuity rose to the challenge with the development of net-gun technology.

Rex Forrester ends with a plea for men of vision to conserve New Zealand's game resources, arguing that although we still have the opportunity to create a game paradise in this country, time is running out.

Some of the yarns in this book are not for the squeamish; many are very funny. Anyone with an interest in the outdoors will enjoy this vividly written account of the resourceful men who respond to one of the last real calls to adventure.