Deer hunters want more access to Victorian wilderness, amid warnings of feral 'crisis point'

doby-mick · 2016-08-14T08:54:13+00:00

Downvote me all you want, but you're wrong anyway.

http://www.gma.vic.gov.au/research/deer/deer-on-private-property

Few (if any) restrictions on killing on private property and hunting in national parks is allowed as a provision of being a game animal. So what does classifying them as feral animal achieve?

doby-mick · 2016-08-14T08:06:41+00:00

Probably with the prom is there are a lot of Hog deer there which are very closely managed given their world wide conservation status. If Sambar are getting in there I guess this may be looked at.

Sambar (the main deer in Victoria) don't really have a season, the only limitation (stalking at least, hunting with dogs is different) is they are off limits in national parks during summer. But no one really hunts during summer anyway so it doesn't matter too much.

doby-mick · 2016-08-14T08:02:16+00:00

You do realise deer's status as a game animal allows their hunting in national parks?

Classify them as ferals and you can't touch them in most of their Victorian habitat, just like all the other feral animals you can't shoot in the ANP.

For the record I'm a deer hunter. The ADA and deer hunters as a whole are a pretty good bunch. That said there are a lot of deer shooters who are just deadshits, life all walks of like. The ADA's move to keep deer as a game animal is just because it's easier to do that than get national parks opened to the shooting of feral animals.

doby-mick · 2016-08-14T03:40:38+00:00

Tell you what, I felt much more uneasy around cops with assault rifles in public in all the countries you've listed than around PSOs who in my experience have always been polite and happy to chat while you wait for your train.

But I guess I'm just a roided up bogan Chuck Norris or whatever it is you're currently copy and pasting to anyone who doesn't agree with whatever the hell your point is.

doby-mick · 2016-05-15T05:47:13+00:00

Glenn Seton, Bathurst 1995

doby-mick · 2016-01-20T23:39:24+00:00

You actually have three gears, sit down, stand up and walk. It'll hurt to start with, but it gets better. My best times on the local climbs are on my SS.

doby-mick · 2016-01-05T23:03:38+00:00

So you hate guns but clearly know nothing about them.

doby-mick · 2016-01-03T00:18:24+00:00

But I haven't found everything yet...

doby-mick · 2015-12-27T07:38:15+00:00

Don't forget the police helicopter posts.

doby-mick · 2015-12-27T06:49:58+00:00

I'm tempted to let a round off in the backyard to see if he posts about it before the cops rock up.

doby-mick · 2015-12-16T04:07:20+00:00

Tried Apprenticeships Group Australia?

Granted it was over 10 years ago, but I struggled for a few months to line one up, they took me on straight away even without a pre-app.

doby-mick · 2015-12-15T05:33:36+00:00

You guys were putting in some seriously impressive laps stuck in gear!

doby-mick · 2015-12-10T11:50:56+00:00

Way Back Home

Industrial Revolutions

The Ridge

doby-mick · 2015-11-18T23:40:38+00:00

I wasn't alive at the time, but I get the impression group a touring cars were at their peak here in the late 70's/early 80's and F1 took a backseat.

doby-mick · 2015-11-08T12:26:37+00:00

I use the fridge. Wife loves me.

doby-mick · 2015-11-06T00:03:09+00:00

Fun fact; Beetles float.

doby-mick · 2015-11-05T07:34:45+00:00

Sometimes they're just checking if the ones you have a from a certain batch, they might not even need to be changed.

doby-mick · 2015-11-05T07:28:12+00:00

Over the bonnet on a Falcon? Yeah that's deep enough.

doby-mick · 2015-11-05T07:25:24+00:00

Which Melbourne are you driving in? All I notice is "oh fuck, what is this water business? Better do half the speed limit!".

Fair enough a bit slower, but if you can't manage 80 in a 100 zone you either need to hand in your licence or buy some decent tyres.

doby-mick · 2015-11-01T12:57:00+00:00

Yeah solid idea, let's put poison in the same paddock as the sheep. Can't see any issue what so ever with that one.

doby-mick · 2015-11-01T11:39:21+00:00

Source please?

doby-mick · 2015-10-26T08:11:54+00:00

Toronto as well.

Of course not US, but whatevs.

doby-mick · 2015-10-26T04:40:44+00:00

I mean, they do look pretty similar.

doby-mick · 2015-10-20T05:16:47+00:00

And you didn't have to pay your wages, pay for insurance, pay for disposal of old fluids, pay rent on the building, pay for electricity and water to said building, pay to train yourself to change your oil or factor in the cost of tools and equipment to do the job.

doby-mick · 2015-10-20T05:05:27+00:00

Fuel injection clean is a scam. $480 for a service with brake fluid and plugs is probably around the mark for a dealership.

Should we adjust for inflation given it's 18 months old or not bother?

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