Interesting experience

You shot it !!!, & then wrung its neck!!,.And the thing still sat up and looked at you!, Better get a bit more practice before Xmas!, is all i can say!,,,,,,Hahahahahahaha....Cheers Mate.


Axle.

Sorry! Terrafima Wrong spot!.



laughing to much to concentrate;


Axle.

Hi TerraFirma

I love and care for birds as well, but when it comes to old style tucker, my wife does not take them just for the sake of hunting, only enough to eat.

Axle, normally when I do that I droip them first time, this time I had to hit the damn thing through spinifex, so that my excuse and I am sticking to it.

Cheers

Hey Marc Luther B bush tucker is bush tucker, it doesn't matter how you get it.

I love Buffalo back strap or Goose perhaps a little Turtle or File snake, bush turkey,scrub foul, brown duck, and don't forget wild Barra.

Shot for it ,Dig for it, fish for it, but don't waste him.

Hope you had a great feed.

Hi 3GoBush

I would have loved a great feed. The wife cooked the bird in the sand, then the kids and grandkids surrounded the fire and I went indide for a cuppa coffee, and when I eventually went out, the hole was empty and the bird had vanished. The correct people got a feed.

I am not concerned with what people think until they come out and see people having their tucker. The stuff we get doesn't have steroids in it to fatten it, doesn't have all the chemicals that chooks and the like have, and is cooked in the hot sand pit mized with coals and a fire on top.

Oh hell, no oven is used, the proper people would not touch it. I couldn't resist that last bit.

Cheers

Hi Skulldug

That's what the blue heeler is for, if he stays awake long enough.

Cheers

Hi Duncan

I have seen many get away after being shot by some people. The mob here obviously follow the birds flight path and 99 % of the time they find the bird.

It was a big white neck male, so quite a bit of bird and it will be cooked in the hot coals and sand for about three hours.

Cheers

It is also illegal to kill them they are on the endangered list.

Hi do4

Whoever put them on the endangered list does not know how to count. The amount we see out here, and the little females are never taken. There were five large males and I would guess 17 or 18 females in a stretch of about 1 km, and we saw a lot more yesterday but didn't touch any.

Incidentally, check your legislation (WA), it is not illegal for Tribal people to take single birds, now I will get all the comments about that remark, and that I am not going to bother responding to.

Cheers

they are a protected species - not sure about endangered as are pretty much all australian fauna is

BUT I dont know the exact laws but native title etc allows taking of traditional foods

I'd hate to be at the table with you for Chrstmas dinner!

Now that's what you call 'catch and kill!'

Hi Chris and Gavin

As previously said, my wife is a traditional woman, playing turkey with her may not be a good idea.

We don't celebrate Christmas Gavin, that is what is called "law time" which means we have a lot more important cultural things to do.

Cheers

Hi Marc,

I do realise what happens culturally at that time of year and the different meanings, depending on the area.

I just couldn't get the picture out of my mind of anyone's wife hitting the turkey with a thong as she tries to get it to stay in the oven dish!

Hi Gavin

Where on earth did the oven dish part come from. My wife sand cooks.

Cheers

Hi Ian F

You are correct, except my wife is a traditional tribal woman and is entitled to take one now and then and cannot be fined.

Cheers

Im all for indigenous people taking traditional protected food but only by traditional methods. The use of traditional 22 magnums, tinnies with 50 hp outboards and shotguns for dugongs and turtles off Palm Island and running 4 inch mono nets for barra in the middle of Rockhampton is rubbish and does nothing to help the indigenous cause.Feel free to jump up and down citing the legal rights but it is my and a lot of others unracist opinion.

Only problem Mark is that you stated that you shot the bird, not your tribal wife. Perhaps you better get this thread pulled before the greenies see it

trilogy what a load off snot, this is the 21 st century.

If you had any idea of Aboriginal culture you would know, Aboriginal people for 60 + thousand years improved their hunting skills by creating new ways to do so, when white fella turned up he introduced white man tools, with this Black fella learned a different way to hunt. It is only White fella that can't fathom the idea that black fella can learn new tricks.

Once upon a time we walked and threw a spear, now we drive a Toyota and fire a rifle, it's not a hard concept to comprehend, but it seems like some white fella's can't do so.

Hey Dasher it doesn't matter if you are white or black if you have the permission of the traditional owner, you can hunt on their land.

Are some of you all saying that none of you have killed a protected animal? How many of you have chased a snake with a shovel? I would bet it was not for a feed. All reptiles are protected.

HI Trilogy You are very welcome to your opinion. By the way, did you know that the tree taditionally used to make hard wood hunting spears is now protected flora. I have all respect for "greenies" as you call them, but even people like Greenpeace acknowledge that traditional people only kill what they can eat.

Hi Dasher Yes, I shot the bird. I have been through Aboriginal Law and have been given the right by my father in law, one of the most senior Elders in this area, to hunt for the family. I make no apologies for hunting for meat with a gun, instead of hunting in a shop with a wallet for meat treated with chemicals.

Hi SDG The people around here still eat Snakes, Goannas, Blue Tongues all that kind of thing, and nothing is ever wasted.

Cheers

Sandalization......a little known traditional hunting technique. It's certainly up close and personal :-) Mike

I thought it (snake) tasted a little to much like chicken, with less meat. The one I had I thought was a little burnt. Depends on who/how it's cooked.

Hi SDG

You are one up on me, I have never tasted snake, the mob love them too much and I never see anything but bones.

Cheers

Hi Glenndini

Fair enough, and all those reasonable comedians out of work. Oh well.

Cheers

You dont know what your missing.

Hi Muntoo

I disagree, if Glenndini did eat the brick, I have no idea they would be missing some teeth and know it really well.

Cheers

Hi Dunworkin

I admit I do not understand the abbreviation that you have given, but what I have written at the start is what actually happened.

Cheers

Hi Marc Luther, the abbreviation means: "Rolling on the floor laughing".(my interpretation anyway) I have a warped sense of humour and I could picture the turkey sitting up looking at you in the mirror and then your wife hitting it with the sandal, wish I was a fly on the wall at the time.

Cheers

Deanna

Hi Deanna

Thanks for the definition. The way the wife swung the thong, a fly on the wall wopuld not have survived, but there you go.

Cheers

Hi Muntoo

We are desert people, you are obviously salt water. We have never tried the dugong, not allowed to, waltja for my wifes grandfather. (For people that don't understand that, her grandfather once went to the coast, the dugong is his brother, no descendants can eat it).

We only have fish and Blue Tongue during sorry time.

Cheers

I agree with Brian

Good on you Marc.

Hi Brian and Jason

You are welcome to judge me if you wish for what ever reason. I did what my father-in-law wanted, and I picked the oldest and biggest bird that I had seen, leaving plenty of other males around. Contrary to what some say, the male Bustard (Bush Turkey) has more than one mate.

How about maing a good post about the Copnway Kids at some stage, I am sure people here would love to hear about that.

Cheers

Hi Wayne

Yes, that is a bush turkey, a young male. We would not even look at that one for a feed, it is too thin and too young. They are frequently in pairs, but normally you find them in groups of males or groups of females.

This entire community knew, a couple of years ago, where four females and their young were. Noone went near the area the entire season to allow the young to grow up and have their lives.

Their camoflage is more that they squat down low and then move rapidly through the spinifex, and it hard to spot them as they are never where you first thought they are. Incidentally someone else said "Tough Bird", that was not something that I had said. Have a great day.

Cheers

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Me Me,

I am an animal lover too; just ask my dogs, who have a better life than I do. Grew up on farms, am mostly vegetarian and abhor the concept of battery farming. Have shot one animal in my life; a rabbit that was stunned and whose neck I had to ring. I have had to put down injured animals on the side of the road armed with a jack handle or a branch.

If every hunter and fisher in Australia treated animals in such a way as described above, our fauna would not be endangered.

Kill for the pot only for what can be eaten that day; be aware of your environment so you know what can be hunted to maintain a renewable resource. Invite your friends and family to participate in your good fortune.

A lot of sport hunters or fishers would have little concept of what Mark has described; people that come back with their full allocated limit, freeze it and then go out to do the same the next week.

From my perspective, Marc did something that would get all the best practice ticks (unless you were cloistered your entire life in Mc Mansion heaven).

It is his wife’s family land; ownership and entitlements which are backed by law and lore

As you judge Marc, can we judge you? Interesting name you have chosen for yourself; is this indicative of your personality?

Marc’s posts give me a glimpse of another world. I’m never going to live where Marc does or do the things that he does. For that reason alone, I welcome his posts.

I go camping and 4WDing to get out of the cities and into places where I can experience the spirit of the land (I know that sounds odd from a 5th generation White Australian…but I think Dorothy Mackellar got it right in “My Country).

Marc’s posts are an insight into what living with harmony with the land is all about. He is also honest about his world.

I assume that you have never made an error to pass your judgements?

Me, your'e full of crap & need to lighten up.we are all animal lovers of different kinds.You should grow up & have fun doing it.


Bob.

For years now I have logged in to read the miriad of posts that are put up each day. Never registered or posted a reply.
Today is my first.
I can relate to the OP as I too have had a similar experience.
I will say that I take issue with Me Me and the aggression shown to the OP.
If you have ever purchase or consumed meat you have contributed to more hanis things to those mentioned in this thread.
I would rate this thread as a all time favourate and will always read anything as I do writen by the OP as I find his impute very interesting.
I will register as a financial member as soon as I get back form where I currently am (200km form the nearest town and I too have a computer & email).

Great tread Marc.

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Hi Guys

Whilst I appreciate some of the supportive comments made, I would never deny someone the right to express their opinion. This person Me Me has a problem with the way that we live out here, and that is his/her right, I would not deny such a right.

I would also challenge the person to perhaps spend some time in an area like we are in, and geographically we are about halfway between Alice Springs and Broome, the major land site is Lake Gregory WA if anyone wants to google, with Mulan being the community we live in.

We have several birdwqatching groups come through ona reasonably regular basis, and I happily take them to places where I know they will see a variety of birdlife. Even these keen orinthologists know we occasionally take a Bustard (Bush Turkey), but we only get the older males, never the younger breeders, we can tellm as they are bigger and have a much fatter white neck than the others.

Have a great day all, and that includes Me Me.

Cheers