Hunting in SA, WA

You can in State Forests in Victoria.

Mike Harding

Mike,

You and I both know it is'nt that simple. That's why I referred BigMav to his Shooter's Assn. Taking what we 'rednecks' say as gospel is asking for trouble :))))

Regards

I don't understand what you're getting at Al?

In Vic it's legal to "Hunt pest animals on Crown Land" - there are other regs. which require said Crown Land to be gazetted as State Forest but anyone (don't know if that's just Vic firearms licence holders or includes interstate people as well - Uniform Gun Laws anyone?) can wonder into a State Forest and hunt.

Believe you me I know the Vic 1996 firearms act and the later amendments a damn sight better than the vast majority of lawyers :)

Mike Harding

Mike,

You are undoubtedly more up to date with the info regarding Vic State Forests than I but when I looked at it some time ago, because of pending legislation in NSW, I'm sure there were areas within some Vic State Forests where absolutely no hunting was allowed. I've just checked again and as far as I can see you still cannot hunt in the State Forests immediately (whatever that means) surrounding Rubicon Power Station for one.

It seems that to be on the safe side you should check with our good friends in the Dept of Smoke and Embers before venturing out :))))))

Regards

They could, of course, gazette any areas they choose to exclude hunting but I am not aware of any - could you send me (or post here) the link you mention above please Al.

Mike Harding

mike_harding@fastmail.fm

Mike,

It appears that EO cannot find the first doc on the Net although I can Google it up anytime. Have sent you an email with the details although I think the doc may have now been superseded by the other docs I've mentioned in the email.

Regards

Mike,

Is there a problem with that email address. Email was returned undelivered ?????

Regards

Hi Al

Nope. Your e-mail arrived about 8.10am this morning and I replied about one hour ago (say 3.30pm Thur Melb time). e-mail does seem to have been a bit funny recently - personally I suspect aliens are intercepting my e-mail after they abducted me last week – they’re like that in April.

Mike Harding :)

Mike,

Got your reply OK. Strange with the email but as long as it got through.

All that stuffing around with gazetting areas within areas etc etc makes life difficult eh.

Regards

No I don’t like loosing bets Mike,

I have been asked if I wanted to buy a 9mm handgun before, I said no I don’t have a licence for one; That’s Ok it not licensed anyway was the response. Ok then, I will just wipe my finger print's of that thankyou very much.

Plenty of crown land In Wa with no chance of running foul of anyone in WA. The biggest problem is there is BA to shoot on crown land. Yep thats right it must have been darn hard for the original inhabitants hunting roos coz on VCL you get an idea of what things were like before pasoralists came in and provided water. there are no where near as many roos and goats are rare away from the station country

Plenty of crown land In WA with no chance of running foul of anyone in WA, exactly why I can’t understand the strict usage laws we have.

BA to shoot on crown land.
Depends where the land is, if it backs onto a station and some do you get Goats Pig’s and what not running all throe it at the right loacations, All depends on where it is.

Its a bit of a pet Peeve of mine. When I cruise VCL such as the yowie rocks track there isnt much to be seen in the way of roos and no goats etc (no galahs or crows either) But cruising station country - Fair dinkum they are often overrun with goats and roos, Donkeys whatever with no shooting sighns everywhere. Yea but they round the goats up? well then why dont they damn well do it. Alot of places seem more intent on breeding up feral animals (I consider Roos bred up to the extent they are on stations to be feral) which totally stuff their rangelands. Its even more annoying when the station is de stocked as many are. I reckon some of those guys need to take more responsability for the control of ferals instead of a blanket no shooting ban and watching their land degrade

Yes I know of one such station that I am semi-friendly with the owners, they have been talking about de-goating it for a few years now, the big Ariel muster is meant to happen this year, it was also meant to happen last year too LOL, Wouldn’t surprise me if I dropped in next year sometime and it still hadn’t happened.

After the muster happens the land will be left to regenerate as it is just that stuffed now from goats that it is bordering on unserviceable, the thing is you will never get all the goats out you will always have pockets of the mongrels that get missed.

The thing is when they spread from a poorly maintained station onto a full working one, we have friends with a 1 million acre sheep station near Meekatharra and they have big problems with wild donkeys, I have driven up that way a couple of times but never had the time to drop in and check the place out.

“Alot of places seem more intent on breeding up feral goats” Yep as, it’s cheep and easy, do the odd muster and make some money for bugger all outlay. The baby goats are nice to eat thou.

If you shoot a bunny in the middle of nowhere with noone else to hear it, did you really do it LOLOL

LMFAO........

Rabbits seem to making a strong comeback and i usually see quite a few on Nightshift now. Callici must have come close to wiping them out but they seem to be getting over it pretty quickly really seeing as it has barely been 10 years since its release

Still quite a few here on the outskirts of Sydney. Does'nt look like they had much of a problem coping with it.

Regards

Hi guys here on the yorke peninsula in sa. they are just starting to pop there heads up again.its been along time& i dont mind a bit of underground mutton...dave

Aaah, garlic bunny. Yum yum yum :))))