bushdoc2
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Post by bushdoc2 on Sept 10, 2021 20:59:29 GMT 10
Yep I can do that! Even better would be your loaded rifle under the bed when the dogs are really active, but you wouldn't do that because it is highly illegal and I absolutely do not condone breaking the law! Does anyone know the legality of sleeping with your rifle slung and cradled in your arms with muzzle down between your legs, technically wouldn't that be maintaining safe control of the firearm while being ready for immediate use? That you need to ask a question like this just illustrates the fukking idiocy of our current gun laws! It's your property and you are allowed to hunt so dont see any issue with having your rifle loaded and ready as long as you are "hunting". Staking out a position waiting for a wild dog is hunting in my book, even if that position is in a somewhat comfortable "hide" "in my book" is not the issue. Your book may be common sense, especially as applied to your own individual circumstances, but it's not the same as the law. Qld law gives the example that if you stop for smoko when hunting, you are not actually hunting at that moment, so have to unload. Written by someone who has never staked out a likely wild dog spot.
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Tim Horton
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Post by Tim Horton on Sept 11, 2021 15:10:51 GMT 10
I can see where wild dogs would be a hard problem to deal with..
Fox, coyote, wolf are tough to deal with in there own ways, but do have some what common and individual traits that can be used against them..
Is the "wild dog" you deal with same, or different than what is commonly thought of as the "dingo" ??
Over the many years it seems to have evolved to get to the most effective, efficient, and cunning level it is, that would seem to be a particularly hard combination of canid to effectively deal with..
Not known to be in the west of Canada, but in the east and some of the far north east of the US there is a cross breed of the coyote and wolf, called the Coywolf...
The few that have been accounted for seem a mix that is extremely powerful, cunning, and dangerous.. Confirmed to be responsible for 1 known human death .....so far....
Facts, details, experience to share ??
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feralemma
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Post by feralemma on Sept 15, 2021 15:12:51 GMT 10
Wild dogs in Australia are a mix of pure dingoes (they come in a lot more colours than people think), dingos crossed with dogs or just plain domestic breed dogs that have either been dumped, lost hunting or bred up in Indiginous communities. Neither one of these is more dangerous than any of the others as they are essentially the same species, it seems to be their proximity to people and individual breed traits that influence their behaviour. The more used to people they are the more bold and dangerous they are, and a pitbull/dingo mix is going to be more dangerous than a cavoodle/dingo mix for obvious reasons. The one variation between them is the established pack behaviour of dingoes, they haven't had this bred out of them over milennia and seem to be less of a threat than a pack of domestic dogs or domestic/dingo hybrids as they tend to get a lot more excited and feed off each others behaviour when they are in a pack.
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Tim Horton
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Post by Tim Horton on Sept 16, 2021 15:23:05 GMT 10
Yes.... I can see where a combination of wild animals with feral former domestic back ground animals would be a un predictable and dangerous combination...
For instance.... Much like the North American feral pig problem.. There have been some sighting in the southern edge of Canada of feral pigs.. But then I guess you have feral pigs also..
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