Thread: How not to kill a cow

Few deep breaths? Yep done, thanks Tommy.
I must apologise for the outburst to the good buggers here( the majority).
Baggin the police when they have the public's saftey to ensure is just not cool or warranted.
Get a life borax and co.

What a bunch of cowboys!

Originally Posted by kidmac42

Few deep breaths? Yep done, thanks Tommy.
I must apologise for the outburst to the good buggers here( the majority).
Baggin the police when they have the public's saftey to ensure is just not cool or warranted.
Get a life borax and co.

I respect the police but come on firing like that in town was crazy im really surprised at the lack of comments from the ones that have quotes from the 7 basic rules check your firing zone , always point in a safe direction etc etc...I must be missing something !!

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

I respect the police but come on firing like that in town was crazy im really surprised at the lack of comments from the ones that have quotes from the 7 basic rules check your firing zone , always point in a safe direction etc etc...I must be missing something !!

Yup

Originally Posted by kidmac42

Few deep breaths? Yep done, thanks Tommy.
I must apologise for the outburst to the good buggers here( the majority).
Baggin the police when they have the public's saftey to ensure is just not cool or warranted.
Get a life borax and co.

Discussion and review of situations like this are how we set standards for the future. Cops aren't gods and fuckup like the rest of us, but if we leave them to run riot without scrutiney you end up with a whole bunch of poorley monitered power hungry fuckheads like they have in the states. Some people view this as un unsafe use of a firearm, and some view it as necessery/justifiable force. Both are entitled to express this oppinion

i'd expect there would be protocol that should be followed. I'm a fireman and we have plenty so i bet there is some behind this situation that we wouldn't know about.

I bet it goes something like, Wild (as in state) animal running loose in an urban area likely to cause harm should be contained immediately, use necessary force.

I thought i read earlier today that it was heading to a busy part of town so that meant it had to be dealt with urgently.

heinsight is a wonderful thing but at the end of the day the animal is deceased and no one got hurt. mission complete.

Your missing that you cant see where the hell he is shooting or his background.

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Had 1 come head down at me one day in the bush, took 3 shots from my jungle carbine to put her down. Just like hunting Buff in Africa whoowee. I was hunting her and was prepared, except I wasn't prepared for her speed and aggression. Poor Cop must of been scared, but he did stand his ground and got the job done. The placement of his bullets might of had a lot to do with the background, and he might of played safe and aimed for the big target for area safety. I would of done the same

Alot of criticism for the boys in blue on here. I think the guys at the scene did the best they could with the given situation. No one knows whether he has 20 years of farming behind him or if they only experience he has with animals is a police dog. Alot of assumptions going on. At the end of the day he defused the situation without any harm to any of member of the public or property. I would call that a success. No one on here hits animals with every shot they've ever made and saying that most of us have rests/bipods and a still animal not an adrenaline filled stressed cow charging at us.

I think the cop did the right thing, there was no other option imo,
It is clear from the body language of the cow that any other options where we'll gone, make no mistake get between her and where she's going and prepare to get hit buy a 500kg train with feet.
As was said worst case scenario would be some kids walking out a driveway.
My issue at the start was the number of shots......but then not everyone knows how's to drop a cattle beast, and safe firing zones come into play.
Makes the forum fun, people from different backgrounds with different opinions and skill sets.🏻

Oh and boaraxa next time I muster up a grumpy old bush cow that's lost her calf I'll put her in the yards and chase her round for an hour, then come jump in then you'll see how much danger there is


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Originally Posted by BRADS

I think the cop did the right thing, there was no other option imo,
It is clear from the body language of the cow that any other options where we'll gone, make no mistake get between her and where she's going and prepare to get hit buy a 500kg train with feet.
As was said worst case scenario would be some kids walking out a driveway.
My issue at the start was the number of shots......but then not everyone knows how's to drop a cattle beast, and safe firing zones come into play.
Makes the forum fun, people from different backgrounds with different opinions and skill sets.��

Oh and boaraxa next time I muster up a grumpy old bush cow that's lost her calf I'll put her in the yards and chase her round for an hour, then come jump in then you'll see how much danger there is


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And it may even be a WHITE cow, or even BROWN or RED

mine was black, Angus I guess

Originally Posted by Gapped axe

mine was black, Angus I guess

They taste the best

Originally Posted by Gibo

They taste the best

Say what ya like still crazy in my view could just as easly been someone shot ...I grew up on a farm so I no how mad cows can go especially with a calf....so you can keep your toilet paper for wiping your patient's butts kotuku

We do a couple of organic beefys each year try and do a different breed each time so far the 2 best have been murry grey or belted Galloway

Originally Posted by BRADS

I think the cop did the right thing, there was no other option imo,
It is clear from the body language of the cow that any other options where we'll gone, make no mistake get between her and where she's going and prepare to get hit buy a 500kg train with feet.
As was said worst case scenario would be some kids walking out a driveway.
My issue at the start was the number of shots......but then not everyone knows how's to drop a cattle beast, and safe firing zones come into play.
Makes the forum fun, people from different backgrounds with different opinions and skill sets.🏻

Oh and boaraxa next time I muster up a grumpy old bush cow that's lost her calf I'll put her in the yards and chase her round for an hour, then come jump in then you'll see how much danger there is


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any chance we should take up a collection "givea little"for dunny paper for boraxa
after hes gone a round or two for a pound or two with Brads wee pet.
I vividly remember my aunty being roughed up by a bloody mad heifer because the silly bitch thought her calf was being kidnapped.one of the kids walked up to it -it sqwuaked she spun and didnt hesitate -luckily she was able to scoop wee one up and biff her over the gate but hell she(aunty) took a hiding.he also had a bloody old dairy bull who charged the tractor once .both cases ended with application of .44/40slug out of the old winchester lever action. if we went near the stock whilst visiting you'd hear it 3 paddocks away.Voice like a foghorns fart had uncle mike!
Oh yeah the saddest bit -the previous owners wife was drowned in the drain running through the property .she was on the tractor crossing the bridge when a cow charges-looking behind her at the cow -puts tractor wheel over edge -cocky found her pinned under the tractor in about 4'of eel ridden water!
Sometimes me thinks if i was a cop and constantly copped all this shit from so called experts Id be turnin round and say "here fuck you -show me how its done "90%of em would about turn and run a bloody country mile or avoid it with typical pissweak excuse.
us psych nurses cop this sort of shit too especially when we have to deal with aggro+++++specimens of DNA,Im still feeling the effects of a wee bit of full contact argy bargy with one who came at us like a PMT infested scrub bull two nights ago after hurling his hot meal at us -stew at high velocity is not exactly edible!!