Anybody hunt with boomerang?

[Title_II]

Likely, but not all. Some places have sales all weekend and stay open. I don't think anything would actually ship today but I don't know about all the carriers.

[on_one_wheel]

As a kid I had a good modern boomerang that was given to me by my grandparents , traditional boomerangs didn't come back to the thrower. They were more like bent clubs fashioned to give them great flight, the bend was usally well off center and they were very big and heavy.

My boomerang was made from plywood and threw realy well, occasionally I would head down to the local park in the leafy suburbs and find a flock of pidgions that had landed and take aim, occasionally I would smack one.
I found the secret was all in the timing, you need to judge how quickly they will take flight and get your height somewhere close to the middle of the flock, getting about 25 to 30 mtrs from them was just about perfect, I would clap my hands once loudly to spook them into the air.

I never got sprung by any of the toffee nosed locals but was always cautious of people and wouldn't aim at a flock when anyone else was there, I'd just throw it and try to catch it again. ...that takes much more practice than hunting birds with it.

My Grandparents had a good collection of propper high quality traditional artifacts, the workmanship had to be seen to be belived, spears made from tree roots with backward facing quill like barbs, razor sharp stone tips all bound with resin and hand made string , woomeras, boomerangs, baskets, stone axes, stone knives and so on. They were given to them by elders of a tribe that originally occupied the areas around Roonka. My Grandmother worked as an anthropologist for the South Australian Musiem and got to know some of the local aborigines of Roonka and the Cooper Basin well.
Shortly before my Grandfather passed away he began to square things up around the place, he made contact with one of the elders, an old lady who had lost all of her relatives and had lost contact with everyone else who had belonged to that area.
He gave the old lady all the artifacts back, she sat cross legged surrounded by all there things crying her eyes out because these thinge were all she had left, he captured a very moving picture of that moment.

It's a shame what has become of these people, we have lost so much of our country's heritage.

[wrenchman]

i had one as a kid and played with it .
i my self would throw a rock if it got me hunting.
Bow hunting stated with natives it would be fun to play with some of your native hunting i bet they could teach a little about a real boomerange or the atlatl.

[wrenchman]

i had one as a kid and played with it .
i my self would throw a rock if it got me hunting.
Bow hunting stated with natives it would be fun to play with some of your native hunting i bet they could teach a little about a real boomerange or the atlatl.

[wrenchman]

i had one as a kid and played with it .
i my self would throw a rock if it got me hunting.
Bow hunting stated with natives it would be fun to play with some of your native hunting i bet they could teach a little about a real boomerange or the atlatl.

[jake84]

Well... That just took an unexpected and completely humorous turn

[Deco]

It IS Australia, does anybody actually throw these things at animals?

I think I threw one once for a school excursion... And then never saw one ever again.

[wrenchman]

it was memorial day try today kwhorenet

[KWhorenet]

Cheers Wrenchman
My emails will be buried in amongst the weekends online activities

Might have to track down my ex GF's brother in law ask him to ring natchez to see if they will order the dies I wanted. They sell them but aren't listing two Cal's I need. Another store I have a cart filled with wants $30 more ea die

[bigfellascott]

I don't think too many Abodiginals use the old ways much anymore, I think most just go to the shops for their tucker now.

[Elmer]

Nothings f***ing legal in Australia

No way that thing is legal in Australia.

[Title_II]

Sorry. It was an attempt at gallows humor.

[headspace]

I hunted with a bloke called boomerang once, we could never get rid of him, kept coming back?? Doh

[fawksel]

I hunted with a bloke called boomerang once, we could never get rid of him, kept coming back?? Doh

Ban deserved IMO

[JOY]

My old man would hunt with a Boomerang it worked really well till it didn't come back ha ha

[tom604]

what do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back ???? a stick

[KWhorenet]

What do you call Tom's jokes?

A stick

[wrenchman]

i think i dated a girl by that name

[tom604]

i think i dated a girl by that name

what,,,tom??? funny name for a girl

[Title_II]

Did you check the plumbing?

[wrenchman]

lol i did say girl

[KWhorenet]

A girl called 'Stick' or Boomerang ?
Or Tom

[bluerob]

Hunting, nope.

Windows - plenty.....

[sbd3927]

I thought they used boomerang throwers in the states to take the flower heads off escaped Triffids.

...Here it is

Their woody make-up and lack of vital organs make triffids fairly resistant to firearms, so agronomists and jungle adventurers settle on a kind of boomerang gun that shoots razor-sharp discs capable of severing a triffid stem.

-Ashgate encyclopedia, google search "triffid boomerang"

[wrenchman]

That's something I didn't know

[veep]

I thought they used boomerang throwers in the states to take the flower heads off escaped Triffids.

You had me going for a minute