Australia Killing Camels

[TMAN10112]

It looks like Camel season is open.

I believe that bolt-action rifles are still legal in Australia, and this looks like a good time for a government sponsored hunting campain. All the they would need to do is get the word out, and offer a reward for dead camels (plus they could give the meat to the homeless).


Discount Camel hunting trips could be very good for the tourist industry.

 

[AWC Viper]

It looks like Camel season is open.

I believe that bolt-action rifles are still legal in Australia, and this looks like a good time for a government sponsored hunting campain. All the they would need to do is get the word out, and offer a reward for dead camels (plus they could give the meat to the homeless).


Discount Camel hunting trips could be very good for the tourist industry.

hunting is a lucrative job anyway without Gov help. also we can own any weapon you can have in the U.S but you need to be a licensed Hunter.

 

[Eternal_24]

Yes, clearly airstrikes will help them save the fragile ecosystems.
That's not a stupid and terrible idea at all.

how is sniping from a chopper a airstrike?

Not once does it meantion sniping in that article. However, the word "Airstrike" is used several times.

in other articles it mentions men on foot and in helicopter using Scoped Rifles plus a head shot would be a quick way to go

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538563,00.html?test=latestnews

You obviously don't know how difficult aiming from a helicopter is, especially if the target is moving which it most likely would be because the helicopter would startle it. Using that method would take months if not more than a year to complete and would cost a hell of a lot to fund. You'd have to employ the gunmen (and they would need to be very experienced), supply them with all the weapons and ammo they need, buy helicopters and pay for their fuel.

EDIT

And even if you could pay for all that, you'd then need to consider that there are 650,000 camels to kill one bullet at a time. It's completely unrealistic.

 

[Rigs83]

Camels are a non-native species that are harmful to the environment. They along with cats, dogs and goats were introduced by European settlers and have devastated local wildlife and need to be controlled.

 

[BonsaiK]

I live in Australia and this idea is awesome. Folks need to understand that you don't wanna get close to these camels. They're not like other docile animals that will tolerate being herded around and sold for their meat. You can't just go out there in a truck with a dog and a shotgun and round them up for din-dins, shit don't work like that. Give a group of wild Australian camels half a chance and they will fuck up your shit hardcore. If they get on your property say goodbye to your car, your fences, any relatives who get in the way and I hope you also don't mind renovating your house. They also compete with kangaroos for food. Blast on those camels, I say. And when the media says "airstrike" what they really mean is "shot from the air with a rifle". We're not going to carpet-bomb things, that's not how we roll (Australian media has trouble with fancy terms like "airstrike", we don't have the experience other countries do to really know what "airstrike" actually means, please forgive us). It's a lot more humane to just shoot a wild camel in the head than sell it for meat or put it on a boat to Saudi Arabia (both of which also happen currently). Also it's good sniper practice.

 

[Rigs83]

I find this rather funny actually. Air-striking camels. It sounds like something I'd do in an RTS when I get bored.

Honestly though, I've seen the overpopulation of camels firsthand a few years back when I went to Australia for a couple months. I flew over portion of the outback in a helicopter a few times and saw heard after heard of camels. They were more common than birds over there. And that was a few years ago. I can't even imagine how dense their population must be now.

Oh, and I support whatever must be done to protect the Australian ecology. (I hear non-native bobcats are really bad over there too...)

Edit: Before people get all up-in-arms, THEY'RE NOT USING BOMBS. YOU CAN'T MAKE BURGERS FROM EXPLODED MEAT. THEY'RE GONNA SHOOT THEM WITH A RIFFLE.

Isn't that how Palins hunts wolves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mu_rqmFpL8[/youtube]

 

[AWC Viper]

Yes, clearly airstrikes will help them save the fragile ecosystems.
That's not a stupid and terrible idea at all.

how is sniping from a chopper a airstrike?

Not once does it meantion sniping in that article. However, the word "Airstrike" is used several times.

in other articles it mentions men on foot and in helicopter using Scoped Rifles plus a head shot would be a quick way to go

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538563,00.html?test=latestnews

You obviously don't know how difficult aiming from a helicopter is, especially if the target is moving which it most likely would be because the helicopter would startle it. Using that method would take months if not more than a year to complete and would cost a hell of a lot to fund. You'd have to employ the gunmen (and they would need to be very experienced), supply them with all the weapons and ammo they need, buy helicopters and pay for their fuel.

EDIT

And even if you could pay for all that, you'd then need to consider that there are 650,000 camels to kill one bullet at a time. It's completely unrealistic.

you underestimate Australian ingenuity. we were the nation making Hand Grenades in WW1 from jam tins.

 

[BonsaiK]

I find this rather funny actually. Air-striking camels. It sounds like something I'd do in an RTS when I get bored.

Honestly though, I've seen the overpopulation of camels firsthand a few years back when I went to Australia for a couple months. I flew over portion of the outback in a helicopter a few times and saw heard after heard of camels. They were more common than birds over there. And that was a few years ago. I can't even imagine how dense their population must be now.

Oh, and I support whatever must be done to protect the Australian ecology. (I hear non-native bobcats are really bad over there too...)

Edit: Before people get all up-in-arms, THEY'RE NOT USING BOMBS. YOU CAN'T MAKE BURGERS FROM EXPLODED MEAT. THEY'RE GONNA SHOOT THEM WITH A RIFFLE.

Isn't that how Palins hunts wolves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mu_rqmFpL8[/youtube]

Yeah but wolves are cool. Wolves live as part of the environment and complement the ecosystem of Alaska. Camels are fugly, and they smell, and they ruin everything and starve out other, cooler, more awesome animals. Camels really need to go, they should have never been brought to Australia in the first place.

 

[TMAN10112]

It looks like Camel season is open.

I believe that bolt-action rifles are still legal in Australia, and this looks like a good time for a government sponsored hunting campain. All the they would need to do is get the word out, and offer a reward for dead camels (plus they could give the meat to the homeless).


Discount Camel hunting trips could be very good for the tourist industry.

hunting is a lucrative job anyway without Gov help. also we can own any weapon you can have in the U.S but you need to be a licensed Hunter.

You can hunt for a living in Australia?

I am intrigued.

 

[Eternal_24]

Yes, clearly airstrikes will help them save the fragile ecosystems.
That's not a stupid and terrible idea at all.

how is sniping from a chopper a airstrike?

Not once does it meantion sniping in that article. However, the word "Airstrike" is used several times.

in other articles it mentions men on foot and in helicopter using Scoped Rifles plus a head shot would be a quick way to go

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538563,00.html?test=latestnews

You obviously don't know how difficult aiming from a helicopter is, especially if the target is moving which it most likely would be because the helicopter would startle it. Using that method would take months if not more than a year to complete and would cost a hell of a lot to fund. You'd have to employ the gunmen (and they would need to be very experienced), supply them with all the weapons and ammo they need, buy helicopters and pay for their fuel.

EDIT

And even if you could pay for all that, you'd then need to consider that there are 650,000 camels to kill one bullet at a time. It's completely unrealistic.

you underestimate Australian ingenuity. we were the nation making Hand Grenades in WW1 from jam tins.

So your amazing ingenuity boils down to "HURR DURR lets go kill some camels that are endangering our wildlife using high velocity and explosive projectiles"... I think somewhere along the line your ingenuity was, err.. misplaced.

 

[Ultrajoe]

You obviously don't know how difficult aiming from a helicopter is, especially if the target is moving which it most likely would be because the helicopter would startle it.

This isn't some crackpot idea that came from nowhere, we've been using this method for years to cull everything from wild pigs to kangaroos. Despite how it might seem, and what logic says to the contrary, this does, has and will continue to work.

 

[AWC Viper]

It looks like Camel season is open.

I believe that bolt-action rifles are still legal in Australia, and this looks like a good time for a government sponsored hunting campain. All the they would need to do is get the word out, and offer a reward for dead camels (plus they could give the meat to the homeless).


Discount Camel hunting trips could be very good for the tourist industry.

hunting is a lucrative job anyway without Gov help. also we can own any weapon you can have in the U.S but you need to be a licensed Hunter.

You can hunt for a living in Australia?

I am intrigued.

yeah you just sell the meat. such as roo, pig or camel to a dealer and they sell it to a butcher
its easier in the country where you just go into the butchers and sell it

 

[Scrythe]

I had to double-check to make sure they didn't mean this [http://fenux.net/gallery2/d/368-2/Camel+Wide+Filters+005.JPG] kind of camel... because that would just be evil.

 

[Bealzibob]

I think we should round a ton of them up and put them in a big safari like area and then loan people knives and guns and let them relieve their stress and angry on the camels, since they are gunna die anyway. Let people go commando on these Camel Basterds!!!RAWR

 

[AWC Viper]

Yes, clearly airstrikes will help them save the fragile ecosystems.
That's not a stupid and terrible idea at all.

how is sniping from a chopper a airstrike?

Not once does it meantion sniping in that article. However, the word "Airstrike" is used several times.

in other articles it mentions men on foot and in helicopter using Scoped Rifles plus a head shot would be a quick way to go

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538563,00.html?test=latestnews

You obviously don't know how difficult aiming from a helicopter is, especially if the target is moving which it most likely would be because the helicopter would startle it. Using that method would take months if not more than a year to complete and would cost a hell of a lot to fund. You'd have to employ the gunmen (and they would need to be very experienced), supply them with all the weapons and ammo they need, buy helicopters and pay for their fuel.

EDIT

And even if you could pay for all that, you'd then need to consider that there are 650,000 camels to kill one bullet at a time. It's completely unrealistic.

you underestimate Australian ingenuity. we were the nation making Hand Grenades in WW1 from jam tins.

So your amazing ingenuity boils down to "HURR DURR lets go kill some camels that are endangering our wildlife using high velocity and explosive projectiles"... I think somewhere along the line your ingenuity was, err.. misplaced.

hmmm you have a good point..............

 

[AWC Viper]

I think we should round a ton of them up and put them in a big safari like area and then loan people knives and guns and let them relieve their stress and angry on the camels, since they are gunna die anyway. Let people go commando on these Camel Basterds!!!RAWR

go commando?.....not wearing underpants on them?

 

[Shapsters]

not everything. thats a lie like 45% of the wildlife can kill you

It's not a lie, it was an exaggeration, but you have to admit that 45% is ridiculously high. I am sure they will regret it if they become endangered.

but america has deadly animals and so does the UK (hooligans i believe they are)
we just have the best natural defense against tourists

Ya well my country(Canada) has cougars, grizzly bears and even the occasional rattlesnake, but you have to admit all these other countries couldn't even be close to 45%.

 

[Roamin11]

Camel bugers, with 650 thousand camels, that could be Australia's newest major export!

My god that sounds nice. I'd like to try some of that.

And here I thought that all the exports of Camel burgers would go straight into my stomach, I guess I have someone to bid against

 

[AWC Viper]

man i love my country. if something is getting to annoying we kill it then eat it. plus we have the only national animal you can legally kill and eat

 

[BonsaiK]

man i love my country. if something is getting to annoying we kill it then eat it. plus we have the only national animal you can legally kill and eat

Well half the stuff that lives where we do would kill and eat us if it could so it's fair game.

Dunno about camels but kangaroo meat is really lean and healthy. It doesn't have the fat content that beef has and roo shooting doesn't strain the environment to breaking point the way cattle farming does. More people should eat it, we'd be healthier with less obesity. Damn it's been a while since I got some kangaroo meat from the local butcher, this thread is making me hungry.