You know, there's a general opinion in other parts of the world that the average Stateside person doesn't give a damn about what's happening in the rest of the world, at least the 'smaller-time' stuff like hunting etc. or whether there are actually any other places in existence out there.
Double nought's post just adds to that impression.
Thankfully, it's obvious here that most other guys in the forum are not so insulated.
Us Oz folk visit here to get a better perspective on the Yanks' great hunting culture and what is definitely the country at the leading edge of the sport firearm world. But we shouldn't be seen as dodos about hunting either. With all our gun-law problems, we still have a great hunting culture and a government who reluctantly and ever-so-quietly accepts that hunters have a role to play in helping keep our huge feral and pest animal problems under some semblance of control.
If you guys had seen what a real rabbit plague was like in Oz a lifetime ago , you'd understand what it all means to us. You can't believe what survivors and destructors those little b*****ds are given the right conditions!
Go on Butta, tell 'em about ferrets.
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