hunting down under

**Bobj** · 03-12-2009, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by helen balmforth

Hi, its not really hunting shooting defenceless roos and pigs, theres no fierce animals there in oz, so to me its sick, i know there is dear hunting around the world, but at least those buggers take some catching off guard, killing roos and pigs for sport is like killing our lovely defenceless cows, its just wrong.

jim.

G'day mate, I take it that you have not done much of pigging, judging by your initial comment...

I have shot many pigs in my time and there is a great element of risk from those big tuskers, especially when cornering them in blackberry stands. One of my mates had his calf ripped open and had 42 stitches put in. He now has a slight limp because of that.
Also, the amount of damage that pigs do to crops, is amazing.

Imagine one of these close to you...

Giant feral pig shot on Pilbara cattle station | PerthNow

Cheers, Bobj.

**waynenicola** · 03-12-2009, 06:58 PM

just wondering what the shot gun laws are and how difficult it is to get one ?? Is there much in the way of pigeon/duck shooting ?? Also wondering how welcome my cocker spaniel would be to the shooting fraternity over there >

**shark** · 03-12-2009, 07:40 PM

great stuff Bobj, that's one hell of a pig .what else can you hunt for, down under.

**Bobj** · 04-12-2009, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by shark

great stuff Bobj, that's one hell of a pig .what else can you hunt for, down under.

Latest news:

Camel cull will be 'humane', says marksman - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

How about buffaloes?

Water Buffalo Hunting Safaris

Lots of pasturalists will give permission to hunt 'roos and feral goats on their properties.
Goat Hunting

Cheers, Bobj.

**Bobj** · 04-12-2009, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by waynenicola

just wondering what the shot gun laws are and how difficult it is to get one ?? Is there much in the way of pigeon/duck shooting ?? Also wondering how welcome my cocker spaniel would be to the shooting fraternity over there >

Any help, mate?

Vic Duck Season - Licence issues - Field and Game Australia

Victoria and Tassie for duck hunting.

Cheers, Bobj.

**The Ozcans** · 04-12-2009, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by Bobj

Latest news:

Camel cull will be 'humane', says marksman - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

How about buffaloes?

Water Buffalo Hunting Safaris

Lots of pasturalists will give permission to hunt 'roos and feral goats on their properties.
Goat Hunting

Cheers, Bobj.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
What about all that mozzarella cheese they could be making????

**Bobj** · 04-12-2009, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by The Ozcans

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
What about all that mozzarella cheese they could be making????

And here was I thinking that Italians made mozzarella cheese. You learn something every day.

Cheers, Bobj.

**The Ozcans** · 05-12-2009, 07:46 AM

No, Bob - the buffaloes make it!!!!!!

**PommyPaul** · 05-12-2009, 07:58 AM

good stuff bob, i know by the tone of this thread this may not go down well but my late and great dad was a game keeper in the norfolfk countryside for near on 50 years.
I used to help him rear the pheasants eggs in incunators, then into inclousers before going into the open (much like we rear cattle but free range and if the dumbasses had a brain they'd bugger off to where it was safe).

then we let people pay lots of money to walk about in the countryside shooting them, collected our kill and it all got ate.

which, wondering breifly back on topic, is what happens over here, we kill roos, we eat roos, we kill pig, we eat pig.

**wanderer** · 05-12-2009, 08:12 AM

That's sure some boar Bobj.
He looks like the Pilbara has toughened him up which it would, nearly looks like his ancestor could have been part bear!
And you don't even have to go as far as the Pilbara to find some biggies.
Up in the Daintree, I went to relieve myself early one morning and heard all this snorting and rooting about, could vaguely make out some foliage being shaken in the darkness and I startled a couple of more wild biggy piggies than boars and they were living of a better pasture for they were well fatted ones too.

Also wondering how welcome my cocker spaniel

He'll need a few mates to handle a boar but could make for target practice I suppose!
But hunters do take trained retrievers to duck hunting season.
You do get a heap of the good guys protesting about it too.

Edit:
For any would be pig hunters who get lost and come across a copper, find some other way to ask "where are the local pigs?", especially if he is overweight and it's hot and he's sweating like one!