Has any of the gentlemen ever hunted asses? I mean, those with four hooves that eat grass? I heard about them beeing hunted in Australia, and for a respectable fee. Well, where I live there are wild asses aloft, and one of them was bagged by a newcomer that should know better. Nothing illegal, just a bit odd. But the meat tasted very good, he says.

In the USA it has been a federal crime since 1976 to kill a wild horse or wild donkey. They actually send people to prison for doing it.

Graff,
I ran into 1 with a Fiat Uno, just outside Natal, in '98.
I was on my way out to Petrobras, running about 180kph.I popped over a small hill and the road was wall to wall asses.
Now, normally I can handle about anything I encounter on the road in Brasil,but I was in such a rural area I was not expecting a herd of animals in the road, 6 lanes of traffic merging into 1 or 2 with no warning sign yea, 30-40 donkeys, NOT!!

Ciao,ate breve, boa fortuna!

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graff

In Australia I have shot several hundred wild / feral donkeys.

Not particularly challenging. Used a .30-06 with 150 gr Nosler Solid Base HPs and SPs. The days before Nosler introduced the crap Ballistic Tips.

Shot them in the brain - used to drop so fast I thought I missed and shot some more . Shot through the lungs. Through the shoulders. In the back of the head as they ran away. Even shot one with a .222.

Shot one last saturday! I've got a mate who guide's for buff, he'll throw in a few donkeys for free just to get rid of them. One place we shoot on the owner asked us to shoot a donkey for every pig we shot, they're a real pest to the cattle stations, eating good grass and wrecking fences. Not hard to hunt, unless they come from an area that has been hunted hard before. Usualy the just stand there and look at you. Tough buggers but, I would say that a 6.5x55 with a strong 140 grain bullet would be the minimum. The one's down my way have a nice stripe over the shoulder and down the back. If I find a skin thats not to scared I intend tanning a couple this year, and making seat covers for my ute Yeah I know it sound's abit redneckie, but I think it'll look great If this turns out, here's a pic of one I took last year.



Bakes

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Can a Yank get into some donkey-shooting relatively inexpensively?

George

Yeah, I believe the wild horses in the U.S. were being rounded up for a long time by the cowboys and such to sell for dog meat. Then the bleeding heart city folks raised a stink and they got protection. The wild burros are particularly hard on the desert bighorn sheep population as they can go where they go and compete for the vegetation.

I shot lots of them growing up in the Big Bend of Texas...Did you know a female burro can and will kill a Mt. Lion.

Mustang Anne, who I consider the dumbest female in the History of the world until Hilary Clinton came along, saved the Mustang, and I use that term lightly, as I don't believe Mustangs exist any more, what we are protecting is feral horses..

Thousands of these animals are standing in Government compounds being fed at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars per day because they cannot be destroyed and won't sell...and YOU and I are paying that cost with our tax dollars. Have been for many years. This is a multiple billion plus dollar a year sting on our budget, thanks to the friggin democrats and their bleeding heart liberals that sit on their fat a$$eS in Ivory towers overlooking Central Park or Hollywood...

I have broke to ride, a few of these animals and basically they are inbred worthless animals and when broke and trained are still worth nothing...they tend to have a mean streak and are short on brains. I'm referring to the so called mustangs and 99% are butt ugly to boot..Their only upside is they are tough, but so what.

They have destroyed the range where they roam to the extent that antelope, deer, sheep and all other wildlife has perished...Check out Nevada.

IT IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE AND AN EXERCISE IN FAILURE, AND FURTHERMORE A PRACTICE IN STUPIDITY, THANKS TO OUR FINE SUPREME COURT WHO FORCED IGNORANCE DOWN OUR THROAT ONCE AGAIN.....

GeorgeS
You should be able to! As I said most guides have them available either for free or a small fee (proberly just beer money )If you turn
at a station and ask to hunt donkeys you should get a yes.
Bakes

Stop beating around the bush Ray, What do you REALLY think!

George

For the largest populations of feral donkeys and great fishing including barramundi, try the Kymberleys of Northern Western Australia. At one time this area was estimated to contain over 100,000 donkeys.

Can be very rugged country, but a fantastic place for an Outback holiday.