Hunting rabbit on public land in SA

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Hmmmm, nice comeback :-) but...Port gave Collywobbles a flogging last week & same for Sydney the previous week.

Who is slaughtering whom?????

Ha ha ha

Crikey, bring back th e'good old days' when, with Dad, we'd go out almost every weekend (from Adelaide) for a feed of bunnys with 2 ferrets & nets.
No permits required.
Cheers Neil

Here here !! I got my first saddle from bunny skins, checking 60 traps before and after school. Between rabbits and dead wool, there was money to be made.

Cheers ...................... Kev.

Yup! I used to own a small armoury of rifles/shotguns; they kept changing the rules! you need a licence - you don't need a licence - your guns have to be registered............... they don't have to be registered.............

In my lifetime though, you've always needed that written permission from the landowner & the hunting permit - just that nobody seemed to give a monkey's if you didn't do it back then. At least that was my experience. Different story now lol!

They've always been hot on hunting on Crown Land though - I had a model 90 Winchester 30/30 confiscated in the '70's for hunting on Crown land. They'd probably put me in jail if I did that today lol!

The native title thing is relatively recent.

Cheers! :)

You need a permit to hunt rabbits on private land! What sort of law makers are you guys voting for in SA ? Michael

I hear what you're saying mate.

I can't believe people put up with either the SA Labor party or the SA Liberal party!

Wouldn't it be great to have a politician, or political party that has the values of Don Dunstan or Tom Playford instead of these politically correct city centric wankers on offer!

Yeah, Bob Katter gets my vote!

All politicians are so far out of touch with the common person its really hard to believe! Just when you think it couldn't get any worse, the Greens put their head up!! Michael

Hi
At a guess I suspect the rules relate to gun users having a legitimate reason / destination for driving around with one in their car. Nothing to do with killing any specific animal (or the greens:)
Cheers
Greg

Hi Greg, The hunting permit in SA is ALL about hunting, a specific permit for hunting ferals in general and a restricted permit for game birds. Two seperate permits.

That's a specific permit for non-specific animals :), I get your point but the main aim of a permit is to give some control over who is driving around with a gun gun in the car...the specific animal you plan on killing isn't that important. If you don't have a permit and get caught I assume you are in some sort of trouble.


Cheers
Greg

At school [1950] we caught enough rabbits and used their skins to by a large film projector for the school. Akubra hats Taree NSW] buy all the skins as their hats are made from them.

PeterH

Hi Peter,

You are correct in that Akubra Hats are made from Rabbit fur as it makes the best hat. However Akubra Hats are in Kempsey NSW and have been for well over thirty years now and are a well respected community employer run by the very well respected Keir Family.

They also prefer the wild rabbit skins as they are of a better quality for hat making, apparently.

Further to that I believe their get most of their rabbit pelts from China these days, so I have been told. May not be true but certainly believable.



Cheers, Bruce.

Everything is made in bloody China these days, even the rabbits!

Pop you must get your eyes checked. They are big bunnies AKA kangaroos. Not enough feed left for bunnies.

Cheers,

Val

thats the unfortunate situation we have nowadays, everyone is worried about whether they are "allowed" to do stuff.
Just do it discretely and safely, there are more than enough beaurocrats employed to tell you if its not allowed without doing their job for them.
If you ask anything the answer will be no.

Presumably you mean don't get caught? I know what you mean but one of the reasons we have (over)regulation and restriction is because a few with that attitude take one step too many. Amateur fishermen ignoring bag limits, people shooting in inappropriate places at the wrong time, you know the drill. Years ago an innocent picnicker was shot by a stray bullet from someone who thought he was "doing it discretely and safely". Rare and extremely unlucky for sure but as someone said " bleep happens" and if your discretion isn't adequate and you end up in court don't bleat about it.

You can sit at home crying about whether your "allowed" to park here, "allowed" to camp there etc but i guarantee if there is no specific rule and you ask authoritys they will say no.
Hes not talking about guns or doing it in the middle of your inner city suburb in sydney melbourne or where ever. Nor is he (or i) talking about "exceeding bag limits"

Nor was I. I was simply giving you examples of people with similar attitudes to the one you expressed.

To an urbanite (which im guessing you are) maybe it does. Dont you think its a little unfair to make a judgement on people who live in an environment completely foreign to you?

I was raised in the country, now live in a town, but if you're suggesting that one rule should apply to you and another to others you're a long way off the mark. I think once again you're suggesting that the likelihood of being seen/reported or caught is less so it's okay to discreetly transgress where it suits. Problem with that is, as I suggested above, if we all move the boundaries to where we want them then there are no boundaries. Most of us will still do the right thing 99% of the time (I'm sure we've all bucked the rules at sometime) but as we know there are plenty who won't. It's also one thing to quietly ignore rules, entirely another to advocate others do so.

in a couple of minor spots you aren't wrong.
Just because something is against the law does not automatically make it morally wrong, unless your morals are dictated for you by whoever is our fearless leader this week.
I know what the spirit of most laws are though some are a mystery.
And I (and many others also Id wager) may bend some of them in a situation which harms no one or causes anyone detriment in anyway without any feeling of guilt.
Next question-do I teach my kids that? No, but I don't let them become automatons by sitting around on the computer playing games etc.

While you may not have been able to find enough of interest in the country lifestyle to keep you there, luckily others can and do.

I also didn't "advocate he break the rules", I said sometimes better not to ask as the answer will be negative.

There are written rules for that situation, ignorance is no excuse.

Peter

I'm no goody goody, just making a statement.

Maybe but it works pretty well for most people

As long as it's dispatched with speed and due respect. I doubt there are many Robin Hoods around these days.

The reality is that animals are already getting killed, by that I mean feral animals are killing our native animals. The question then becomes not 'should animals be hunted' but 'which animals should be hunted'. That question is rhetorical and native animals need all the help we can give them.

ar u on the pith?

Back in '65 I use to take my 22 Bruno up on the middle beach rd as well.

I can't remember the Distance but I'd push my bike from Blair Athol to middle beach and see if I could find a rabbit, I didn't have much luck. LOL

The rifle use to be slung over my shoulder and the police never pulled me up.

Don't think I would try that these days.

We used to shoot pigeons on the cliffs at Port Noarlunga, Witton Bluff and that was in the early 80's. They'd have the SWAT team there now!

Peter

Just a hunter Merv, or a member of one of the clubs as well? ABA, IFAA, etc