SCI TROPHY REGISTER RULES AND INFORMATION

FORMS & SCORING

Entry forms for the Trophy Register are available from either your local or Master Measurer, a list of name and contact numbers for these members is at the back of this booklet.  The official SCI scoring system will be used and all details of this are noted on the official entry form.

 New trophy entries are Free and copies of the Trophy Register are $NZ10.00.

BOW HUNTERS AND BLACK POWDER ENTHUSIAST

It was decided that in the trophy register, bow hunters and black powder hunters would have their entries in the same section as other hunters, however, their entries would be marked with an asterisk to denote that they had been taken with other than a conventional firearm.

FREE RANGE

The Trophy Register is restricted to “Free Range” New Zealand and South Pacific Trophies.

HELICOPTERS

Over recent times, the helicopter has been used extensively by hunters, to gain access to hunting areas.  It is now recognised as a legitimate time saving form of transport.  In preparing the following rules, it has not been the wish of SCI (NZ), to place restrictions on its members regarding this legitimate use of helicopters.  Rather it is the intention to try and stop unethical hunting practices.

RULES GOVERNING THE USE OF HELICOPTERS

1.  Helicopters/aircraft may only be used for the transport, and ferrying in of hunters and/or equipment directly into the campsite of the area where the hunt is to take place.

2.  Helicopters/aircraft may NOT be used in any way to locate, pursue, shoot from or entrap any game animal that may be eligible for the NZ Trophy Register.

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