freediver
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FriYAY wrote on Mar 20 th, 2013 at 11:06am: freediver wrote on Mar 15 th, 2013 at 7:06pm: We did a thorough risk assessment before setting up camp and decided that it was the most comfortable looking spot. You keep sleeping in ditches then. It wasn't a ditch. It was about 30m wide. gizmo_2655 wrote on Mar 20 th, 2013 at 1:42pm: Doctor Jolly wrote on Mar 20 th, 2013 at 1:12pm: gizmo_2655 wrote on Mar 20 th, 2013 at 11:49am: Well given that there aren't all that many areas that allow hunting it shouldn't be hard to work out.. Here's a list of places in NSW http://www.gamecouncil.nsw.gov.au/portal.asp?p=WhereCanIHuntBut really, almost all serious hunters won't shot near camping areas, and regardless of what the Wilderness Society says, they don't wander around, blasting away at shadows,and noises...Ammo is way too expensive, for a start and in Australia hunter 'cred' is built on accuracy (one shot kills, clean head shots etc) so serious hunters don't fire until they're sure of the target. The occasional random bogans who DO do stuff like that are at more risk from the serious sportspeople, than you would be. Its the bogan shooters I'm worried about. Ive done a fair bit of shooting in my younger days, and its all fine outback on private farms where you know there are no people just wandering around, but in more built up areas like Wattagans near sydney which is a big 4wd'ing and camping site, it can only end in tears. Some very good hunters may follow your 'cred' ethic, but even then its easy to be focussed on your target that you forget what is behind it, or what a ricochet off a rock might hit. Guns, forest and people just dont mix, IMO. Well they did mix, successfully for many decades, with very little problem, so why they wouldn't now, I don't understand. Perhaps he meant Gunns and forests don't mix.
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