Dear All,
The NSW Shooters and Fishers party now claims that hunters will be shooting in National Parks unsupervised and that parks will not be closed while hunting is taking place. See http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-09/fears-of-unsupervised-nsw-national-parks-hunting/4118214
I wonder how many non-hunters being accidentally shot it will take, before this excellent bit of policy is reversed. I suppose that depends on what electorate the victim comes from.
Carl Clifford
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I spent several years living in the French Pyrenees part time. We soon learned not to go into the woods during hunting season. Many hunters seemed to like a variety of liquid refreshments with lunch, including wine, beer and pastis. The number of rounds heard echoing down from the hills, particularly in deer season, tended to increase greatly as the hunters let fly with their post-prandial discharges. I don’t imagine that our own happy little nimrods would be much more temperate.
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NSW is not the first State to allow hunters in parks, this is already being done in South Australia and Victoria.
I have been an unsuspecting birdwatcher in Chiltern when the calls of dogs followed by the marching army of fox hunters has descended the slope after passing over the ridge. This was not a fun experience. Hunting also takes place in the north east targeting deer, the sunset country targeting goats (as well as pigs and whatever else) and yes, of course, the typical duck hunting which I have naively experienced by accident when bird watching at McLeod’s Morass in Gippsland and Lake Murphy near Kerang. Clearly I needed to select my weekends better.
And as for no duck season in NSW, this is not really the case as we all know licenced duck hunting already occurs on areas which such as rice fields and some other artificial water bodies.
And the shooters to be using spotlights!
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That makes sense. Fluoro orange or similar clothing is only designed to be high-visibility in the day time. They need the reflective strips to be high-viz in night time.
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 11:39 AM
On ABC Local radio the hunter said that bushwalkers should wear high vis vests and that would sort it.
Now, regardless of the desire to wear high vis vests or not, a quick google brings up from a hunting website …
Much has been made about the use of high-vis orange clothing when hunting. Many believe that heading afield without at least wearing a small amount of blaze orange borders on insanity, especially in hunter-heavy areas. However, studies have proven that even high-vis orange in certain low-light conditions is insufficient. An analyzation of the Virginia Game Warden’s reports, both prior to and after the legislation of the use of orange in 1987, showed poor results where accidental shootings occurred in hunting situations. “In nearly two-thirds of cases (63.9%) of deer hunting accidents in Virginia… the victim was wearing orange to the legal requirement.”
http://www.albertaoutdoorsmen.ca/archives/outdoor-pursuits-january-09.html
So, not sure I’d be pinning my expectations of not being shot on a high vis vest.
storm
Dear All,
The NSW Shooters and Fishers party now claims that hunters will be shooting in National Parks unsupervised and that parks will not be closed while hunting is taking place. See http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-09/fears-of-unsupervised-nsw-national-parks-hunting/4118214
I wonder how many non-hunters being accidentally shot it will take, before this excellent bit of policy is reversed. I suppose that depends on what electorate the victim comes from.
Carl Clifford
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Analyzation is a perfectly cromulent word which has been in use for several centuries – almost as long as “analysis. But “analysis” is preferable in most contexts these days.
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“analyzation”?? Apropos of shooting people—–
Russ Lamb, Maleny
It seems that they don’t just maim each other, but the language as well: analyzation??? Hmmm
Shirley Cook
Storm,
There is a movement in the USA to open up their National Parks to hunting as well. With the numbers of small arms carried by the citizenry of the USA, there is the potential for some frank and forthright exchanges of projectiles to be had. A birder I occasionally correspond with in the USA carries a .50 cal Desert Eagle pistol when he goes birding, for “self protection and bears”. I don,t think he would hesitate to return fire if some one were to put out the odd round in response.
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Carl Clifford
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At the moment we have no shooters party MPs – but both Labor and Liberal governments have endorsed duck hunting here despite the opinion polls and lobbying. Given the environmental record of the current Liberal mob (even worse than Labor!) I would not be surprised if they seized on something like this to appeal to a few more rednecks – they have a VERY slim majority to defend at the next election.
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If the Victorian Gov. is entirely dependent on the good graces of a shooters lobby to enable legislation, I would say, very soon. It looks like a duck season will return to NSW next year, according to what I hear out of Orange, from whence the NSW Game Council issues it’s decrees. Now that the Shooters and Fishers Party has a taste of blood in NSW, they will be going for what they can get nation wide.
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So only get shot if you are in a marginal seat would seem to be the best policy?
I wonder how long before our wonderful Victorian Govt takes up this great idea???
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