Bill wrote:Well I reckon 2 shooters might be receiving an invoice for shooting some expensive horses.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/dozens-horses ... --spt.html
marksman wrote:not a fan of the ssaa but l'm calling BS as well,
if these guys had been shooting illegally their feet would not have touched the ground on there way to the clink
on big properties like this you are given maps and very clear instructions where and where not to shoot
Grandadbushy wrote:Well deanp100 mate i'm calling BS on it all for the moment, i don't know how much you know about horses wild or otherwise but i've been around them all my life in one way or the other and shot plenty of wild brumbies many years back when it was ok and legal to do so and to shoot 30 domestic horses at one sitting would be almost impossible unless you followed them by vehicle and wild ones would be more difficult unless they were locked in a set of yards , these station horses are not as quiet as the pony club horses even though they're broken in, if you were careful you may kill 6-8 but even that would be stretching things as they would bolt for the scrub from noise alone, so as i said above they were either rogue shooters or lost to where they were supposed to be, so there as they shouldn't have shot anything at all until boundaries were found so it's going to be hard to believe any of this at all so far but we'll see soon enough i suppose
Grandadbushy wrote:Well deanp100 mate i'm calling BS on it all for the moment, i don't know how much you know about horses wild or otherwise but i've been around them all my life in one way or the other and shot plenty of wild brumbies many years back when it was ok and legal to do so and to shoot 30 domestic horses at one sitting would be almost impossible unless you followed them by vehicle and wild ones would be more difficult unless they were locked in a set of yards , these station horses are not as quiet as the pony club horses even though they're broken in, if you were careful you may kill 6-8 but even that would be stretching things as they would bolt for the scrub from noise alone, so as i said above they were either rogue shooters or lost to where they were supposed to be, so there as they shouldn't have shot anything at all until boundaries were found so it's going to be hard to believe any of this at all so far but we'll see soon enough i suppose
Grandadbushy wrote:Yes bladeracer mate horses are like deer they take flight easy, you may get a few and some will stay within sight but far out, it would take a fool to shoot those distances or hit them for that matter, even when you run horses in to make up a team after they've been spelled for 6mths they will run for cover until you cut them off , mind you not all horses are spelled these days but even in an open paddock for breeding or such they would be flighty, unless they are followed by vehicle or yarded, it would be difficult to shoot so many in one go all thought i don't know of what time frame they shot the horses so that's an unknown, mate nothing is impossible but i've never seen this in such numbers at once this is one reason they shoot them from choppers for volume numbers but geez i wouldn't like to be in their shoes if it was just for fun, and i've said it before this is one of the reasons property owners won't let shooters on for fear of this happening to them and this little episode won't help the cause either. some would think it would be possible to sit way out and pluck them off one at a time but think of the situation you have to range them ,take care on every shot 30 times, reload, i doubt the rest would stand there for that length of time especially with the crack of the rifle and seeing their mates dropping and the injured ones kicking about and bolting , also i doubt you would get 30 head shots at the distances we're talkin about, but if you can you're wasting your time shooting horses
Grandadbushy wrote:deanp100 mate i didn't mention it could be an insurance scam and find it strange you would suggest that especially this is a forum if you know the manager concerned and some the horses concerned could you fill me in on what were the horses used for, as 30 horses worth $500,000 they would be very expensive horses at that. i'm not prepared to speculate what actually took place, but will say something is not right and the ssaa being the ssaa how they could have got it so wrong with these blokes because they put their reputation on the line every time they send a shooter out to a property, you see this is why i can't understand all the lose ends in this case