d-o-k
01-04-2006, 07:36 AM
I had a visitor today who had spent many years shooting the same areas as me & it was funny talking about past memories (espescialy as we were in direct compertition against each other ) Now I'll give you a little back ground info on how the Pro Shooting Kangaroo industry works other wise you won't know what the implications are ! Right Every Roo shooter has to be accredited these days in The Handleing of Game for human consumption ,Pass a shooting course (which includes reloading ,& forensic data on bullet wounds ! Yeah great ain't it? ) A property owner applies to a Gov Dept for permission to Cull Roos ! He is given a Quota.Which he passes on to the Shooter who works his property (most shooters have up to 20 farms that they shoot ) Some whole areas are zoned so the shooter can only sell to one Processor who buys the Roos & then remarkets the finnished product ! The Shooter works for himself & incures all costs in shooting & then is paid by the Kg (Not enough ) ! This was the subject of disscussion today !
Some years ago I caught Clarey (Me Mate who visited today ) Shooting on one of my properties ! I was not impressed !!!!!! I asked him what he was doing & he explained with a straight face, that he was lost ! Not supprizing you say? considering the distance we would travel in a night ? No not really I suppose .except he was 150kms from were he normaly shot !!!!!:evil: Now being the decient Chap I am I could'nt really cut crook at him (Read very mad to the point of killing him) Also there was the fact that I'd been quietly poaching one of his properties ! Whilst he'd been trying to make a living on a property that I'd almost finnished with for the year ! Now we were laughing about this today when I pointed out that my best night ever 2.5 ton of Roos was shot on his alotted lands !He never flinched ! Just replied to ask me if I remembered the night that he supplied his Processor with a load of Roos none being under 30kg (big for a dressed Roo ) Yeah I remembered ! He smiled & pointed out they were shot on my Place whilst I was out at work !!!! Bastard:cry:
Dave
Some years ago I caught Clarey (Me Mate who visited today ) Shooting on one of my properties ! I was not impressed !!!!!! I asked him what he was doing & he explained with a straight face, that he was lost ! Not supprizing you say? considering the distance we would travel in a night ? No not really I suppose .except he was 150kms from were he normaly shot !!!!!:evil: Now being the decient Chap I am I could'nt really cut crook at him (Read very mad to the point of killing him) Also there was the fact that I'd been quietly poaching one of his properties ! Whilst he'd been trying to make a living on a property that I'd almost finnished with for the year ! Now we were laughing about this today when I pointed out that my best night ever 2.5 ton of Roos was shot on his alotted lands !He never flinched ! Just replied to ask me if I remembered the night that he supplied his Processor with a load of Roos none being under 30kg (big for a dressed Roo ) Yeah I remembered ! He smiled & pointed out they were shot on my Place whilst I was out at work !!!! Bastard:cry:
Dave