Thread: Roo Shooter caught at Bendethra

Originally Posted by Redback

Personally I think shooting any native animal is a crime AND shooting just for the sake of it, OR for so called fun, no worse than those clowns found running over Wombats really.

Just a different way of killing

Baz.

I do agree with you Barry.....I don't like shooting for the sake of shooting but at the same time although its not nice I also understand the need for a mass cull when numbers get that high that they are destroying whats around them and there is not enough food for all.

They have to do this I think by yearly in the uk with the Dear.....I really really love dear as I think they are majestic animals but I understand why it needs to be done. rather 100's of healthy dear than 1000's of starving ones.

Originally Posted by dullbird

They have to do this I think by yearly in the uk with the Dear.....I really really love dear as I think they are majestic animals but I understand why it needs to be done. rather 100's of healthy dear than 1000's of starving ones.

Oh my dear, your idea on deer is funny

Yum, yum, Kangaroo, Deer.........this thread is making me hungry

Originally Posted by Shonky

Wrong. The heinous crime was taking a gun into the National Park, and risking access for law abiding recreationalists like me and you, who like to spend time in the bush without shooting at it.

Time and place. Nothing I love more than a shoot, but not in a NP!

I believe that NSW legislation has now been amended to allow the carriage of firearms through NPs (for hunters travelling to/from a legal hunting area), but obvioulsy not permitting the use of such firerams in NPs.

Originally Posted by rovercare

Oh my dear, your idea on deer is funny

Yum, yum, Kangaroo, Deer.........this thread is making me hungry

You ever eaten Roo? They taste a bit game for me That smell they seem to have is right through the meat The dogs don't mind it at all though

The taste kinda reminds me of liver. Not too bad, if you get a younger one.

Originally Posted by Rangier Rover

You ever eaten Roo? They taste a bit game for me That smell they seem to have is right through the meat The dogs don't mind it at all though

Like all Game it depends on what they have been feeding on and how much water they have access to. Like don’t take a duck from the mudflats, or a pig from the fern or a goose from the blackberry.

Having worked as a culler in both NZ and aussie (quite a few years ago) I am not so much concerned about over population and the having animals stave as to the damage they do to the environment, which happens way before plague numbers are achieved.

Camels will walk in a line, (Foot on Foot) creating damaged tracks that the wind and water can easily cut away but worse is there ability to eat a bush from top to bottom thus killing it. Camels are making the desert more of a desert. You can see a camel trail and then return next year to see a wadi in the same place following the same path.
Goats can feed higher than sheep but both eat or pull out the roots of grasses, exposing more soil to the weather.
cattle don’t feed as low as sheep and goats and are not as hard on the environment.

Roos are the best adapted to Australia, they don’t feed to low and they don’t damage the ground with there feet. roos and Australian bush have evolved to be able to coexist, even when roos are in plague numbers not all the plant life will be striped.

These namby pamby don’t kill Skippy types need to be dragged away from the coffee moca decaff in a glass and Kesh, striped of there Kaftans and taken off the seal and shown what is really happening the real damage to the environment.

but then this thread is about National parks, and we need National parks to be a bastion of Australia ( or any country for that matter) apart from eradication if introduced species by professionals the place should be left alone

There was a Doco on yellow stone national park, where they now let the place burn, and its a better place for it. I thought that was interesting.

Originally Posted by clean32

There was a Doco on yellow stone national park, where they now let the place burn, and its a better place for it. I thought that was interesting.

Of course that would depend on whether the fire was started naturally or not.



Martyn

Like any meat you can hang it for a few days and the gamey taste deminishes