The bloke that was shot by a poacher while sleeping

[bladeracer]

Podcast interview with the hunter that was sleeping in a camp site when he was shot by a spotlighting poacher.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/13-when-the-hunter-becomes-the-deer-and-gets/id1635014342?i=1000583604177

[Oldbloke]

Link doesn't work.

[Lazarus]

It works for me.

You might have a settings issue on your end OB, I recall you've had issues with links before.

[bladeracer]

Link doesn't work.

Curious, it works for me.
Could try their front page and follow it from there.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-endless-pursuit-australian-hunting-journeys/id1635014342

This is the original story in Sporting Shooters.
https://sportingshooter.com.au/news/spot-lighters-who-shot-a-man-in-his-swag-receive-a-small-penalty/
And Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/109736009057839/posts/andrew-papanicolaou-was-shot-while-lying-in-his-swag-at-tallarook-state-forest-n/2872319159466163/

Basically he went hunting in state forest with his mate in a car. They stopped for the night at a camp site where there was another bloke in a caravan. A poacher comes spotlighting, gets a flash off an eyelet on his swag and takes two shots (I think with a .243), first shot misses but wakes him up. Can't see anything wrong so goes back to sleep. Second shot hits him in the thigh. One of the others starts waving a torch around to stop the shooting. Poacher tries to take off but gets bogged.

[Oldbloke]

It's only the podcast that doesn't work. Don't normally have issues. More than likely because I use an Android ph.

I had read about that story. But not the court result.

Poacher should have got worse. He must have broken nearly every rule in the book.

[Larry]

Poacher should have got worse. He must have broken nearly every rule in the book.

Thing is as "Jack Sparrow" would say really they are only guidelines not laws.

[Blr243]

People who make mistakes like that should never be in the bush with guns .... they should stay at home playing video games or getting on the booze and arguing with their like minded friends...... I have stuck reflective tape to several parts of my quad to make it easily identified should someone shine a spot light on me from a distance ..... not sure how I should go about protecting myself in camp if someone is scanning with a thermal. There must be some object that looks man made that I should consider having on display , something to make them think first ....I’ll give it some thought

[Blr243]

If I’m camped up , just because I’m in a stable frame of mind I does not mean that others are As well...... apart from being loose units , they could also be under the influence of something or tired. Or both

[bladeracer]

People who make mistakes like that should never be in the bush with guns .... they should stay at home playing video games or getting on the booze and arguing with their like minded friends...... I have stuck reflective tape to several parts of my quad to make it easily identified should someone shine a spot light on me from a distance ..... not sure how I should go about protecting myself in camp if someone is scanning with a thermal. There must be some object that looks man made that I should consider having on display , something to make them think first ....I’ll give it some thought

The problem in the bush is that whatever you put up is likely to be partially obscured, just as animals are. If somebody like this makes zero effort to confirm that they are even looking at an animal, let alone what sort of animal it might be, I doubt there is much we can do. I doubt reflective tape or a light would dissuade them, they'll just identify it as eye shine. Perhaps setting up mirrors around your site might help, but unless it's reflecting their beam straight back at them I doubt it - maybe a mirror ball would make them pause? Perhaps a cheap light sensor that can trigger an alarm when a beam of light hits it might be effective to warn you and scare a shooter off?

Poachers are lazy and tend to stick to roads though, so camping well away from anywhere a poacher is likely to be looking might be your safest bet.

As he said, his first thought was that somebody like Milat was trying to murder him.

[Oldbloke]

You got me thinking. ( very dangerous lol)

I have one of these in the ute. Cheap as chips. They fold up too.
Might put it on the bonnet if I'm worried.

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[geoff]

People who make mistakes like that should never be in the bush with guns .... they should stay at home playing video games or getting on the booze and arguing with their like minded friends...... I have stuck reflective tape to several parts of my quad to make it easily identified should someone shine a spot light on me from a distance ..... not sure how I should go about protecting myself in camp if someone is scanning with a thermal. There must be some object that looks man made that I should consider having on display , something to make them think first ....I’ll give it some thought

If someone is scanning with a thermal, and still shoots at a human, they are just intentionally trying to murder you at that point.

[Lazarus]

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[niteowl]

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But but but, that's a bull
Seriously though it is a huge problem down this way !

[Lazarus]

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But but but, that's a bull
Seriously though it is a huge problem down this way !

Bet he loves milking time

[niteowl]

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But but but, that's a bull
Seriously though it is a huge problem down this way !

Bet he loves milking time

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