Thread: Victoria banning duck hunting?

Gun ownership, ease of hunting access, social acceptance - all slowly being eroded and has been for the last 30 years that I can remember. Major reason I defected from Oz. Grass ain't always greener boys and girls... I can happily put up without the big mining dollars and paying through the nose for fuel, NZ is bloody heaven as far as guns and hunting is concerned.

Do they like duck shit over there? Or are there enough predators to keep the population in check?

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The commitee that wrote the report recommending the ban was made up of 2 labour members 1 animal justice party 1 greens 1 liberal and 1 shooters and fishers so the outcome was never in doubt

When I read that I wondered if we'd learned a lesson from the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.

In the early eighteen hundreds in America, the Passenger Pigeon was probably the most numerous bird on Earth - numbers were between 3 to 5 Billion.
In 1857 a Bill was brought to the Ohio State Legislature seeking protection for the bird - it failed.
By the mid 1890's they'd all but disappeared, the last one (Martha) dying in captivity in 1914.

Billions to zero in fifty years.

Commercial exploitation of pigeon meat and loss of habitat was responsible, plus the hundreds of thousands of hunters waiting all along the migratory passage ways.

Not saying that's what's happening to the duck - I actually don't know what's happening to the duck - and I wouldn't mind betting the duck doesn't know either.

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

Victoria is the most authoritarian state in Oz

WA got the shitest strictest gun laws though

Originally Posted by SF90

When I read that I wondered if we'd learned a lesson from the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.

In the early eighteen hundreds in America, the Passenger Pigeon was probably the most numerous bird on Earth - numbers were between 3 to 5 Billion.
In 1857 a Bill was brought to the Ohio State Legislature seeking protection for the bird - it failed.
By the mid 1890's they'd all but disappeared, the last one (Martha) dying in captivity in 1914.

Billions to zero in fifty years.

Commercial exploitation of pigeon meat and loss of habitat was responsible, plus the hundreds of thousands of hunters waiting all along the migratory passage ways.

Not saying that's what's happening to the duck - I actually don't know what's happening to the duck - and I wouldn't mind betting the duck doesn't know either.

Some of the aussie states (going from a distant memory here so could be mistaken), had some very bad years where the duck population crashed from weather and disease. Hunting was banned so that wasn't it. Nature wiped out way more than shooters