I need some input from shooters/hunters living in Tasmania and SA please.
Which state is the best to live in with regards firearm laws and accessible hunting?
For example how difficult is it for someone to obtain a Cat C licence in either of these states? Is there a duck season in either state?
Are crows legal to shoot there?
Need help in making a decision as to which state to reside within.

Also please advise which are the best gunshops in SA and Tassie please????
APB

I think the firearms laws are pretty much the same all over Oz these days with really minor differences between states since Pt Arthur in 1996. It's hard to get a Cat C unless you're a landholder but not impossible.
There is plenty of hunting in SA. Goats, rabbits, hares, foxes, cats, donkey/horses/camels up north, roos (under the tag culling system), ducks & quail (in season) and if you are lucky to know someone, fallow and red deer. Not many pigs though, too dry.
The same rules apply to anywhere else you may hunt in Australia though, it's all about private property access, there's very liitle public access land that can be hunted over here AFAIK.
Crows are most definitely on the hit list.

Climate diferences between Tas and SA are challk and cheese obviously but there are way less tree-hugging-hippies here in SA to get in the way.
SA truly is a wine drinkers paradise too if you are into that.

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I think there are differences of interpretation state by state on the "national gun laws".
I am in Qld obviously and have had a Cat C shotgun both recreational and occupational since 1997 and I am not a farmer.

BTW - I have edited my request above re best gunshops if you have any input please?
APB

APB

I'm guessing it will be hard for you to retain that Cat C once you move here. You will have to show a need for it. Just coz you already have it in QLD does not mean it's automatically transferrable here. Maybe I'm wrong, dunnow, give SAPOL a call.
The amount of gunshops can be counted on one hand pretty much.
Mains ones are; Fisher Firearms, Adelaide Gunshop, North East Firearms, Prospect Firearms.
Sprinter Arms are also up in Hahndorf if you need barrels, chambering, etc etc
The prices here will never match what you see in QLD if the ads in the magazines are anything to go by.

Thanks again Avatar.
I guess you mean that the prices on firearms are more expensive in SA than Qld?

Any Tassie members able to give some feedback?

APB

APB
do a google search 'hunting tasmania' that will give you heaps of information about who, where and how you can hunt in Tas. Licences, species, ssaa and other hunt club info. also available on the pages presented.

Rosco

Roo
i am after some individual feedback not generalisations.
Which are the best gunshops and why?
Bloody search engines can't tell me that!
APB

To live in Tasmania you need to provide evidence of scaring on the neck where the second head was removed. Then you would be OK. Maybe in the Barossa Valley too where I am from .

Seriously. SA has NO season on deer. Meaning you can hunt them whenever you want if you have access to the property. In Tasmania there is I believe two one month seasons where you can take 1 stag and 1 doe (I think ???).

No season on much else except for ducks and quail which are pretty fair seasons of around 10-12 ducks per day for several months, usually mid-Feb to beginning of June. Wood duck have been unlimited bag "limits" for a couple of years or more. You need to do a Waterfowl ID test if you haven't done one before. Easy if you study a ducks ID video tape a bit before hand. There are several public swamps available for duck shooting during season. Some are open for shooting on specific days, some everyday. Everything else non-native is pretty well unprotected.

Hunting is on private land. So permission needs to be sought. However I have not met anyone who has NOT gained access when they actually TRIED asking permission. Sure they get knock backs, but if they have the right attitude, appearance and demeanor they find access somewhere. Most guys talk about it, but never actually make the effort to ask.

Tasmania is really cold. Parts of South Australia have a Mediterranean type climate, the best climate in the world.

Firearm licences are not hard to get. Very simple TAFE course and examination and a practical session. Class C licences will be difficult if you do not have a good reason, eg work on land or own land and are abl to justify one. I do have a class C licence.

The major part of your decision should be your employment prospects. Both states are fucking basket cases economically and lagging behind the rest of Australia due to incompetent governments sitting on their fat arses full of Federal tax money which they waste to their hearts content.

South Australia does have a very successful wine industry which is going through a cyclical slower period at the moment due to over supply, but in a few years it will be vibrant again.

As said your employment prospects and what you intend to do will be a important real life factor.

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I guess you mean that the prices on firearms are more expensive in SA than Qld?

Right on. Huge differences in gun prices between Qld and SA, maybe +20% more in SA.
Lack of decent competition here = paying the full tote on everything.

Seeing that South Aussies are thought to find crow a delicacy I would assume that they must be allowed to shoot them .

NitroX
Thanks for the detailed reply.
If it comes off I will make myself known to you there in the Barossa! Share a glass of Shiraz over some tall tales!
APB

BTT
Still looking for some individual opinions from Tassie residents!
APB

APB try using the AHN site quite a few tassie's post there someone should be able to post the address here..SA would be the go you can pop across the Vic border for Sambar up in the high country or any number of state forests around the state for vermin, just my thoughts...

Tracks
Not familiar with AHN?
What does that stand for and i will search it out?
APB

APB, here you go mate www.australianhunting.net and go to forums...