animalpest wrote:mchughcb - few "professional" shooters have even heard of the term strategic management, let alone know what it means. No, it is how we deal with things strategically, in other words shooting is just one of a suit of options.
Brinny - I dont sit out all night waiting for a dog to come along. That is what a trap is for. Spend a little bit of time putting it out, do the next job and go home and have a beer at the end of the day.
In a recent job over 12 months, we compared the efficiency of shooting foxes and feral cats on a 500,000 acre property. We kept records of #animals seen, #shot, #recovered, # trapped and numbers of hours worked doing each. Trapping was 11 times more efficient than shooting. Adaptive management, using data and records, changed how we did things to be more efficient and more effective.
Grandadbushy wrote:Well done brinny i see you are a sako man like me mate , what calibers mate i run 22-250 for dogs and 7mm for the larger animals
animalpest wrote:mchughcb - few "professional" shooters have even heard of the term strategic management, let alone know what it means. No, it is how we deal with things strategically, in other words shooting is just one of a suit of options.
Brinny - I dont sit out all night waiting for a dog to come along. That is what a trap is for. Spend a little bit of time putting it out, do the next job and go home and have a beer at the end of the day.
In a recent job over 12 months, we compared the efficiency of shooting foxes and feral cats on a 500,000 acre property. We kept records of #animals seen, #shot, #recovered, # trapped and numbers of hours worked doing each. Trapping was 11 times more efficient than shooting. Adaptive management, using data and records, changed how we did things to be more efficient and more effective.
animalpest wrote:Haha mchmughcb.
Strategic management is -
1 Determine what the problem is,
2 Assessing all the options,
3 Select the most appropriate method,
4 Implement the program. Use Adaptive Management,
5 Assess the outcomes against the objective.
It is used by a General planning a battle, emergency services for planning for flòods, fires, cyclones etc, as well as pest animal control.
If all you have is shooting to solve the problem (foxes, dogs etc) them by all means use it. If it helps the landholder it is all good.
We use Strategic Management because we have a wide range of options and are not limited to one. We can therefore select the most appropriate based on safety, humaneness, efficiency, effectiveness and cost benefit.
There is not a fox or wild dog in Australia that cannot be trapped. But if you only have shooting as an option, go with that and feel good, you are doing someone a favour.
We do work in everything from back yards to the desert.
We tend to get called when everything else fails or its high risk.
animalpest wrote:mchughcb - few "professional" shooters have even heard of the term strategic management, let alone know what it means. No, it is how we deal with things strategically, in other words shooting is just one of a suit of options.
Brinny - I dont sit out all night waiting for a dog to come along. That is what a trap is for. Spend a little bit of time putting it out, do the next job and go home and have a beer at the end of the day.
In a recent job over 12 months, we compared the efficiency of shooting foxes and feral cats on a 500,000 acre property. We kept records of #animals seen, #shot, #recovered, # trapped and numbers of hours worked doing each. Trapping was 11 times more efficient than shooting. Adaptive management, using data and records, changed how we did things to be more efficient and more effective.