Thread: Time to re-introduce a paying for deer/goat tail scheme?

yes and no Barry.....its often been said the only good.....(insert species name here) ...is a dead .....
you want to reduce the OVERALL population ,what does it matter where it comes from if indeed you are SERIOUS about reducing the overall population.
the guy that can kill 300 possums a night has a lot of possums..the guy that can get 4-5 probably works harder to get them...either way its 305 dead possums that wont be making more little possums.
same for feral cats/rats/ferrets (swamp comp doesnt ask,require where they came from)
the current situation with contractors ,can at times,be a right joke...spray wilding pines in an area and DONT go back 3-4 months later and hit the ones they missed..so they keep spreading.its the old story of deminishing returns..easy to get the easy ones,take the cream off..but really hard to whack the last few of any population..so if anyone is still having a go..why ever not give them ssomething as reward for doing so
take that 440 wallabies the boys whacked over....if there was say $1 per set of ears...it would be worth walking past as many as were handy and taking a scalp...petrol/diesel money or replacement rounds..no one will get rich at that sort of level but at $5 a set it starts to look really attractive
again the only good ..... is a dead ....

and your argument that only shooting 4 isnt doing much good.....flipped on head,dont bother shooting 4 at all and see how much faster population explodes,if your sliding down the hill and making 3 steps forward and 4 steps back,your still dropping slower than if you stand still.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

yes and no Barry.....its often been said the only good.....(insert species name here) ...is a dead .....
you want to reduce the OVERALL population ,what does it matter where it comes from if indeed you are SERIOUS about reducing the overall population.
the guy that can kill 300 possums a night has a lot of possums..the guy that can get 4-5 probably works harder to get them...either way its 305 dead possums that wont be making more little possums.
same for feral cats/rats/ferrets (swamp comp doesnt ask,require where they came from)
the current situation with contractors ,can at times,be a right joke...spray wilding pines in an area and DONT go back 3-4 months later and hit the ones they missed..so they keep spreading.its the old story of deminishing returns..easy to get the easy ones,take the cream off..but really hard to whack the last few of any population..so if anyone is still having a go..why ever not give them ssomething as reward for doing so
take that 440 wallabies the boys whacked over....if there was say $1 per set of ears...it would be worth walking past as many as were handy and taking a scalp...petrol/diesel money or replacement rounds..no one will get rich at that sort of level but at $5 a set it starts to look really attractive
again the only good ..... is a dead ....

and your argument that only shooting 4 isnt doing much good.....flipped on head,dont bother shooting 4 at all and see how much faster population explodes,if your sliding down the hill and making 3 steps forward and 4 steps back,your still dropping slower than if you stand still.

This idea is nothing short of the same stupid thinking that has got us into this mess . Pissing into the wind feels good only until it gets blown back onto yourself . Unless you think strategically nothing will be achieved .
I know of a Forestry company that initially let anyone who wanted to , go into their forests and shoot goats and deer (great eh) except it turned into an abject failure. Idiots went in and effectively shot sod all or just educated them causing a bigger problem . So then they only allowed certain people in and initially they shot in the thousands each per year( private not pest controllers) , now the numbers are right down to the point that some forests are virtually goat free , with much lower deer numbers ( although the trees are at a point where they do not cause so much of a problem).
Unless you remove the breeding base their is no relief and merely killing from here to Timbuktu is a recipe for spreading the problem at the expense of a feel good cock-up.