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500grains
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Do you guy shoot dingos?
      #70744 - 03/02/07 04:41 PM

Seems like they could be a lot of fun.

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: 500grains]
      #70747 - 03/02/07 06:57 PM

Dingoes are protected here in the NT......wild dogs arn't.

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: Bakes]
      #71123 - 10/02/07 07:07 AM

Yep, and is not easy to know which one are you shooting

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: 500grains]
      #71136 - 10/02/07 10:59 AM

this was easy enough to distinguish `tween feral and dingo,way up in sambar country too.




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Edited by gryphon (10/02/07 11:01 AM)

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Marrakai
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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: gryphon]
      #71139 - 10/02/07 12:11 PM

A lot depends on where you are hunting. In the ranges of eastern New South Wales, dingos are large-bodied, wily animals which are very difficult to align the sights on, and make very worthwhile hunting quarry. Experienced hunters are able to 'howl them up' and bring big males in to the gun. Exciting stuff!

In the Northern Territory where I live, wild dogs are usually a bit scrawny, and not difficult to approach, so less of a hunting challenge.

Of course, if the property owner expects you to shoot them as an informal condition of hunting access, then they die!

There is a movement Australia-wide to elevate the status of the pure wild dingo to that of native fauna, but their genome is already polluted by interbreeding with feral dogs in most parts of the country (as in Gryph's photo above). Any hint of that, and they are immediately feral pests to be destroyed at every opportunity.

For those reasons, the law here in my home state protecting dingos is token only, as it would be impossible to prove dingo or dog. Therefore, no-one could ever be charged with this offence in the NT.

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: Marrakai]
      #71141 - 10/02/07 12:33 PM


Marrakai

So I'm safe ????

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: Marrakai]
      #71147 - 10/02/07 12:56 PM

Yes I have shot several dingos. They are considered pests in SA outside of National Parks (and not even there in the South). Southern Australia actually has the longest fence in the world, the "dog fence" which runs from NSW into South Australia and is supposed to keep dingos to the North.

I shot a few dingos/wild dogs in the NT before they were protected.

At one time Western Australia offered a bounty on dingo scalps and may still do.

In SA they can be very difficult to hunt. If there is a dingo loose on a sheep station, it is like a needle in a haystack to find.

Some guys say they are easy to hunt, but spotlighting or shooting from the road in a car isn't hunting. I'm not talking about Marrakai's scrawny dog comment above, but truer desert dingos.

A .222 or .223 is probably a good choice for a pelt, but anything in hand is just as good if not.

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: NitroX]
      #71162 - 10/02/07 07:28 PM

i`m fairly sure that bounties are still paid in Qld.

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: 500grains]
      #72146 - 21/02/07 03:41 PM

The only problem is that they have actually changed the scientific naming of the 'dingo' from the common garden-variety dog (Canis familiaris) to (Canis lupus dingo) ie. closer to the wolf. I don't know if this difference was provable by genetic means but I do understand that there are some recognised differences (eg dingo dont bark like a dog). I understand that there are genetic differences but I dont know for sure.

So, there are implications for US hunters coming to Australia and want to take a dingo/wild dog/hybrid trophy home with them. No one wants to try to import an animal with the name Canis lupus because of the Cities issues and of course they dont want to be caught doing the wrong thing (eg. importing a protected animal - ie. dingo from the NT - that's a US Fed. offence). If the authorities there want to take issue with a certain animal they may well be able to do a DNA test to prove it's origin? I don't know and I dont want to be the one to test it really . Having said that I am exporting a dog for someone at the moment - a Victorian high-country wild-dog - and it will be labelled Canis famil. - so I guess I am testing the waters in some way...

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: Marrakai]
      #72165 - 21/02/07 11:46 PM

Hunting them by means of howling sounds similar to the way we call in Coyotes .... its a very exciting sight to see a coyote running across a section of winter wheat to the sound of a wounded jack while you lie in wait with one in the chamber and a stuffed magazine behind it.

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: Double_Trouble]
      #72350 - 23/02/07 03:53 PM

my mate from NM took his home actually it was sent as a tanned cape/skull with no probs at all...its mounted now on his wall .... it was a yellow high country bitch.

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: gryphon]
      #73284 - 07/03/07 12:26 AM

Matt, I remember reading somewhere that they have added "familiaris" to the wolf as well. There is no genetic difference between the wolf and the dingo/dog.

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Re: Do you guy shoot dingos? [Re: Bakes]
      #73286 - 07/03/07 12:32 AM

This does appear to be the case. I wonder how long before CITES wakes up and revises its Appendix II listing?

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