| Matt_Graham |
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| 21/03/14 08:52 PM |
Re: The criminal waste of kangaroo meat
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Quote:Yes rec licences or tags should be available in every state. QLD has them of course (50 per year) but it isnt used by many hunters (the dont bother) and it is only available to residents.
Interesting if it is true. Don't know about SA., would have to check.
What also shits me. Is when I have visitors from overseas. Every one so far has asked to be able to shoot a kangaroo. And usually want to take photos which is a problem.Also perhaps take the hide and have it tanned as a trophy.
Getting a tanned hide from a shop is easy. They process them in Thailand or Taiwan or somewhere ... of course it is not the "trophy" but from another animal shot anonymously by a professional shooter.
I have always referred them to an outfitter for the legal kangaroo "trophy" hunt.
What annoys me is we can not just drop down to some gov't office and buy say five sporting tags per person. It should be easy and perfectly legal. Same as hunting whitetail deer in the USA. Free meat, hides as trophies, etc, some good sport, if one uses sporting methods. Usually roos are easy to shoot though. But where hunted a lot are smarter and more wary than deer. Even the dumb ones are hard to hunt with a bow (not that I have tried of course because it is probably illegal, I was actually hunting rabbits ... ) and always know a person is there and constantly move out of bow shot range.
Tassie has the permit you buy for wallabies (what we call wallabies) and those small rat things they shoot.
I dont know of anywhere an outfitter can do actual legal 'trophy' hunts for exportable kangaroo. There are different ways you can get through some grey areas to do it but it doesnt satisfy the scratch and sniff test - certainly not for export.