Aussie hunters are real men, they like their beer cold and their women (sheilas) hot. They like to bullshit heaps (tell lots of tall tales) and love a joke, but the culture of mateship, forged in the trenches of Gallipoli in 1915, is still very much alive. There is nothing like going hunting with your mates. They look out for each other and you always help your mates when they need it.

Aussies won't take you really seriously until you have proven yourself, so there is no point in bragging about how you shot a 1,000 pound grizzly bear at 600 yards with your .378 Weatherby - we can't relate to that and we're not really interested! Hey mate, we shoot truckloads of furry little teddy bears every week out here with our .22s!

Americans who decide to come to Australia to hunt will get heaps more respect by initially keeping their mouths shut and asking the right questions at the right time. When they get a chance to shoot something, that is the time to show the local boys that they really are top class hunters.

Aussies love people who like to laugh at themselves; Aussies do this as well. Don't take yourself too seriously in front of an Aussie. Aussie shooters do a lot of shooting and generally have vast experience in the field. They are also very competitive and admire somebody who "has a go." Winning is important, but "having a go" is the most important thing.

The steering wheel is on the right hand side of the car and we drive on the left hand side of the road. 4WD Toyota Landcruisers are the standard by which all bush vehicles are measured, they are like arseholes here - everybody has got one! Footy and cricket are not sports, they are religions. We'll shout (buy) you a beer but we don't give anybody tips--bugger em!

Thanks for the info. Anything in particular initiate this essay?

BA,

Not sure what the purpose of the ode to Aussie hunters is ?
Which part is BS Don ? Spent a bit of time in the Australian bush have you ?

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Originally posted by Bushchook:
Not sure what the purpose of the ode to Aussie hunters is ?
Which part is BS Don ?

Let's just say that all the aussies I've met are
none of those things, but are obnoxious and full of themselves, and leave it at that. Yeah, we have something similar...they are called ....texans!

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Aussies won't take you really seriously until you have proven yourself

Which is exactly why I asked whether you've ever spent any time here .
Anyway , now that you have established your credentials perhaps you should fuck off to from whence you came and leave we Aussies and Kiwis to argue amongst ourselves .

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Aussies won't take you really seriously until you have proven yourself

Which is exactly why I asked whether you've ever spent any time here .
Anyway , now that you have established your credentials perhaps you should fuck off to from whence you came and leave we Aussies and Kiwis to argue amongst ourselves .

Works for me. Now how about keeping your aussie A holes in OZ. We have enough obnoxious people over here already!

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Works for me. Now how about keeping your aussie A holes in OZ. We have enough obnoxious people over here already!

Seems logical to keep ém all in one spot to me .

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Originally posted by Bushchook:

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Works for me. Now how about keeping your aussie A holes in OZ. We have enough obnoxious people over here already!

Seems logical to keep ém all in one spot to me .

I agree wholeheartedly! That is if you mean keep them all in OZ!

You seem like a good bloke to me. You can exchange barbs without getting nasty! I suspect you'd make a good mate! (mate = friend...not spouse! I'm a yank, remember?))

You are correct. I am not much of a hunter by
your standards. I hunt for the exercise and fresh air with people I like to spend time with.
I need the exercise because I'm old, and the fresh air because I live in the city.

If I get game fine. If I don't get game fine.
It's the experince for me, not some kind of
macho bragging rights.

Regards and gooday!

maybe you should try birdwatching don>

and smile when you say TEXAS

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maybe you should try birdwatching don>

and smile when you say TEXAS

Don't get yourself in a twit, Crusher! Some of my best friends are TEXANS! And
I do a lot of birdwatching....turkeys, pheasants and quail!

Someday I'd like to bag one of them nice Texas whitetails! Have you ever gone after one of those wild Rio Grande wild steers? Man
that sounds like a real heart thumper!

yeah its kinda touchy shootin cows here one guy on a lease with me shot one to defend himself and ended up in jail. and he was a cop. lucky his dad was a judge or he would have been in deeep stuff. got off with just buyin the cow in the end.

I dont know how nice they are but come on and shoot some whitetail theres shitloads of em

But how do you Aussies hunt those huge carniverous 'roos that have been found ???

Same way we bag so many of the idiot posters on AR. We just dangle a litte bait, and whack them on the head........
We get so many, Saeed and Don are thinking of limiting us to 5 a day......

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Originally posted by Sambar 9.3:
Same way we bag so many of the idiot posters on AR. We just dangle a litte bait, and whack them on the head........
We get so many, Saeed and Don are thinking of limiting us to 5 a day......

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Originally posted by Sambar 9.3:
Same way we bag so many of the idiot posters on AR. We just dangle a litte bait, and whack them on the head........
We get so many, Saeed and Don are thinking of limiting us to 5 a day......

The small ones get thrown back,catch them when fully grown.