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This is all off topic for the thread but on thing.

One must always be careful what one writes.

I remember an Aussie hunter hunting in Alaska, wrote an article for an Australian hunting magazine. He wrote about flying into camp and hunting that afternoon. An Alaskan official read the article, and pursued the Aussie for breaking game laws in Alaska, where I believe it is illegal to hunt the same day as flying in. Presumably so you can not spot game from the air.

A Victorian hunter was prosecuted in NSW for hunting in NSW without a NSW game licence. He wrote about it on a hunting forum. A NSW Game Council employee read the post, checked to see if the guy had a game permit, and he was prosecuted for it.

Presumably if a USA hunter writes about a questionable hunt say poaching in Zimbabwe, eg with the old Out of Africa Safaris, he could be prosecuted in the USA, if someone reads the evidence.

Some things are not really bad, someone taking a visitor out for a shoot or hunt, might otherwise be 100% fine, except for a piece of paper ... if so, don't write about it.

SA is fine, if supervised most of the time. If duck hunting, a duck permit must be held though even if "accompanying" the SA duck hunters ... a non shooting guest should be fine, sometimes the law requires everyone on a duck reserve to have a permit.

Visitors often want to shoot a kangaroo ... lets just say no photos! Unless tags are available to legitimise it all!

Not much different to the USA, where tags for a deer might be needed. And some US states, hunting is illegal for a "alien" without an outfitter as well.

You can be sure of one thing. The law everywhere is getting nastier all the time, and forums, facebook, photos, magazine articles are in the public arena. Antis also love to expose what they see as a bad activity, ie guns and hunting, especially if they can get you for breaking some regulation or law.

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John aka NitroX

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