Bill Paterson - takes on duck shooting protesters over the 2009 Victorian duck shooting season

[theduckchampion]

Your right about that mate.

[sidfga]

A big thank you to Bill paterson,and fga,who do a fantastic job and are honest people,unlike the rubbish these greenies come out with, i love my hunting,i love eating wild game,as oppossed to all the rubbish in tdays markets,i respect the game i hunt,and above all i like 99% of hunters are honest,law abiding citizens,who do more good for our enviroment and wildlife than these idiots ever do,they are living in bambi world,bring on 2012 season,good hunting to all,and big thank you fga

[ScottishCaledonian]

Ducks attack small children, two babies have been savaged by ducks in the past year.

[korosj]

Third highest waterfowl count on record in October 2011,bring on 17 March,CADS (Can't Affect Duck Season)25 oops no 26 years Laurie and his goons have been whinging and whining,last year they were very lucky one of the sheep they led blindly into the swamp was not killed.

[MrLarkface]

What a flippin Nut Job!



[decoycarver17]

Thank you Mr. Paterson for helping in the fight to preserve a tradition, If you are ever in the US you will have a seat in my blind for sure.

[funfunshotgun12]

How are the greenes protecting ducks when they take the ducks from the shooters..... have they stoped and thought that when they take the ducks we get to shoot more DUMB ASSES!! ahaha

[orangepower88]

gun shots in the background. hell yeah. go bill paterson!

[Pippip3030]

Maybe that goof could flap his wings instead of his mouth and we could shoot at him and his freaks that follow him.

Save the ducks for the oven.

[saints2010T]

kill the protesters screw them



[ducksmasher11]

uhh, you shoot ducks, because you want to eat their flesh, the same as a deer. whats the confusion here?

[OMFGWTFROFLBBQ]

@Nekkidj WHAT THERES A LAW FOR THAT WE NEED THAT LAW I SHALL BE A POLITICIAN AND DO THAT THAT WILL BE MY DREAM FOR A WHILE

[jimmyduckhunter]

peta-people eating tasty animals

[sandman6161994]

fuck you hippies, i'll fuck alll you up!

[buckluck9pt]

you anti's are too funny. listen up, hunting will NEVER go away. fight and protest all you want. us hunters save wildlife, not destroy it. we give back for what we take, by donating countless dollars and hours to habitat preservation, saving woodlands, wetlands, species diversification and monitoring, species introduction, etc etc. you guys do nothing but protest. i think it's funny you preach about saving the wildlife, but won't lift a finger or get dirty to do it. that is true hypocrisy.

[Nekkidj]

im truly glas that we have laws in place in Canada to protect us from stupid protesters trying to take away our right to use a resource. in Canada these people would be charged with interrupting lawful hunt.

[jagerfaust2009]

@fourwalls2007 Brain deads like the duckman come up with the same old tired excuses year after year. Don't worry this slaughter killing will come to an end sooner or later and there'll be nothing their pop guns can do about it!

It might create a new industry, think about it "male bonding sessions, counseling (cos they will be cry babies) and disposals to sell the Commando crap".

Maybe their mentor the Dept of Subtle Euthanasia can help them out permanently?

[Prescottstud]

@jagerfaust2009 Why can't we have are fun you know the whole freedom thing.... I do what makes me happy, you do what makes you happy. Just leave us alone, we respect you too.

[giorgiopalmeri74]

...duck hunters you are a bunch of faggots....the only hard stuff in your hand can be your gun....you bunch og wankers, cock suckers, gun polishers,,,

[jagerfaust2009]

@giorgiopalmeri74 Most of them (hunters lol) suffer from a curious thing called "slow brain death" The justifications posted here prove it. They really bite when they get annoyed...So laughable!

[woodsman513]

@giorgiopalmeri74 and proud of it. hunt till the day I die.

[HandmadeWeaponry]

@giorgiopalmeri74 HIppie. You do know I go hippie hunting. So you may want to sleep with a helmet on.

[1234Fuji123Xerox1234]

I kill ducks for food and they're great fun to have a crack at :)

[mummysez1mspecial]

so aside from standing infront of a shotgun for a cheap adrenaline rush and a "noble cause" what the hell do these moronic protestors think theyre doing???

[Imforthewhales]

I love duck hunting and love eating duck..its tasty and delicious...but something turns me off the whole thing......duck hunters pong like mad! My dogs shit smells better...fair dinks...The breath on these guys stinks too...dont stand too close...so when i go duck hunting i go by myself and with my dog cause he has way better breath than these piggy boys.

[Mrduckman97fly]

When i go hunting i also love to see the beautiful game and the scenary. every day is something new. and it also gives you a sense of doing something right for once. when spend and average of $6000 dollars for ducks and wildlife management-decoys-guns-bullets­. and half of what i just listed goes to a wildlife managemant organization. it is especially annoying when your sitting there enjoying nature and minding your own business some dumb idiot (so called conservationists) are taking your ducks.

[Mrduckman97fly]

furthermore we dont kill ducks for recreation we do it for food and for tribal connection. i hate to be indoors because nothing can be as real as life on a video game. Then you have the feel of bieng able to have fun outside with your friends and family with a conversation in the woods-marsh-river and everything else in the world doesn't matter all of a sudden. its like beibg born and living for fifty years of stress then it just goes away. i love to watch the creatures and animals in the marsh.

[Mrduckman97fly]

@fourwalls2007 how are we orphaning there young if there grown and we shoot them in a quick painless death as possible. we sanp there necks to make sure there dead and not feeling any pain and what the hell is it with eating them. we eat them so we dont waste the body help the economy and to put food on the table isnt it the same if you eat meat or a vegatable.and what is this thing with african tribes. are you some kind of smart scientist trying to show off or something.

[jumpthenoob]

@fourwalls2007 their young? here in the us by the time ANY season comes around, the species' young are able to survive, if not adults

[Mrduckman97fly]

when you shoot my dog the only reason ill get pissed is because i have a connection to that dog unlike some of you fucks second when we kill a bird we dont think of blood or bones or evil laughs (unlike you guys) we think of tradition connection and the inner call of the wild to be a predator. we are just like a coyote they have claws and teeth and some of us have the ability to think. its all the same. now you tell me would you want to die a slow death or get eatin alive then get shot by a gun?

[TheBlegg]

 you dealt with a good mannered duck hunter if it was me somebody would get busted in the fuckin mouth

[afrattner]

first off screw you anti hunting wanks, if i want get a few ducks for the pot im going to. You know the pre packed meat you buy from coles has had a far worser life than the game that i take.

Second, stop steeling/rescuing the ducks that i shoot. Soon as you nab it im gonna shoot another one, so infact you further the death of the ducks.

Bloody wankers

[Pincher68]

Protesting against duck hunting is gay!!!!

[Realfoxhawk]

@Ecowild68 I support hunting - but aboriginal people used bushfires to drive many species into extinction.

[Vespertine2626]

leave the sad shooters alone. there call them selfs hunter gatherers, lets see if they could catch these birds with there bare hand if there were naturally meant to get them, no its a sport so stop kidding yourselfs and go and pretend your a fox you idiots shooters

[ByeByeBelly]

As a bird recuer who has gone out on the wedlands and rescued injured ducks, I know what Im talking about. The numbers have declined dramatically and many of the shooters are bad shots and just injure the birds and leave them there to die. Anyone who says otherwise hasnt been out there regularly and does not see the truth

[j17myf]

thing with these do gooders is they dont realise what we do in the way of conservation for the habitat in and around the water ways and feilds .here in the uk we put a great deal of time money and effort in to conservation because if we do this then it will insure our future in the sport

[winslon]

Good effort by the F&G. These guys forfeit the open weekend to face the greenies/journo's that wouldnt have a clue about hunting.

[mwill3011]

good to see someone finally telling the truth- Field & Game that is!!!

[RohanTE]

my god that greenie sounds like the biggest idiot going around...

[daniac111]

The real idiots are the people who believe that there is some justification for this pathetic excuse for a 'sport'. Shooting tiny birds with a shotgun is something no real man would do. The sooner this practice is banned the better.

[RohanTE]

@daniac111 Duck shooting isnt done just for sport, i shoot ducks, in fact i attend this years 2010 duck season opening, and the ducks we shoot, we eat. and if you are a meat eater, you cannot complain, since these ducks suffer a lot less pain than the animals that go to the slaughter house. and if you don't eat meat, but have dairy products you still cannot complain.

[daniac111]

@RohanTE, I have been vegetarian all my life, and I understand your argument. I think mass-breeding animals just so we can slaughter them is both unsustainable and unethical, but that's an entirely different issue.

[daniac111]

@RohanTE, On the topic of duck shooting, yes, if this perfect world, one where there are always enough ducks, and everyone shot only the birds they planned on retrieving and cooking, rather than leaving most to die a slow death, really existed, then perhaps there wouldn't be this problem. But the reality is that soon there simply won't be any ducks left to shoot.

[RohanTE]

@daniac111 i would like to ask the question of when you have witnessed "most" ducks being left a slow death? I have encountered a lot of shooters over the years, on the opening morning arguing about who shot which duck so that they could take it. i will agree with you that sometimes inexperienced shooters will not effectively give a duck a 'quick death' but that is a part of the learning curve between amateur and professional. and also I don't agree with you on there 'soon' being no ducks left.

[daniac111]

@RohanTE Your first argument. Even as far back as 15 years ago, research was conducted into the potential number of birds left to die by shooters. In 1994, a computer simulation of the action of a shotgun and the flying bird concluded that most competent shooters will average one bird wounded for each one bagged. Take into account inexperienced shooters and the birds left to die well outnumber those killed and bagged. I have friends who have been there protesting and have seen this firsthand.

[daniac111]

@RohanTE Your second argument. It is well known that bird numbers in Victoria have been declining for at least 25 years, primarily because of the drought. An aerial survey of Victorian wetlands carried out by Professor Richard Kingsford in 2007-8, and published February last year showed that between 2007 and 2008 the drop was SIXTY percent. Our ducks are already struggling, and the solution is to shoot them?

[RohanTE]

@daniac111 I refuse to believe that study by Richard Kingsford. Ducks are migratory animals and therefor they will follow and go to where there is rain, and since Victoria is one of the states most affected by the drought the birds have migrated north, where in recent years there has been some of the biggest flooding seen. I agree numbers are down in Victoria but in the country i think that numbers will be around the same.

[daniac111]

@RohanTE this was his justification for allowing the limited duck shooting season to go ahead. However, Professor Kingsford pointed out that most ducks wouldn’t migrate down to Victoria. Why would they want to? With the exception of Gippsland, many of our lakes are dry. The conclusion was that “Half of the targeted duck species would be Victorian residents that have been subject to the pressures of the extended dry season.”

[daniac111]

@RohanTE

Since 2005, Queensland, along with NSW and WA, has had an ongoing ban on duck shooting, both because the drought was impacting on breeding, and because the ‘sport’ was becoming extremely unpopular. Duck numbers are now recovering in northern Australia because of better rainfall, but realistically, they wouldn’t be if this ban hadn’t been put in place. Last year, Environment Minister Gavin Jennings speculated that these northern Australian ducks would migrate south, and

[RohanTE]

@daniac111 if you did further study into that ban, you will find reports that show that more ducks are being killed than ever before in NSW, because of permits being gained by farmers/hunters.

[thegardenfairy]

@RohanTE That is a down right lie. In 1988, when the NSW Animal Welfare Advisory Committee recommended that duck shooting should be banned, around 236,000 ducks were killed each year for recreation. Recreational shooting was banned in NSW in 1995. In 1995/1996 only 81,676 ducks were killed as pest control.

[RohanTE]

@thegardenfairy and you actually believe that those figures are true? if you do then you are even more blinded than the NSW government.

[thegardenfairy]

@RohanTE According to figures released by the Department of Enivronment and Conservation NSW in 2005, since the ban that number of ducks killed as pest control has in general declined, to the point that in 2003/2004 the number dropped to as low as 12,906 ducks killed as pest control and over the decade till 2005 the average number of ducks killed each year under pest control was 55 662.

[thegardenfairy]

@RohanTE Furthermore, between 2003 and 2009, only 84,634 ducks were shot as pest control in NSW - that's an average of 12,090 a year. At no point since the 1995 ban of recreational shooting in NSW has the number of birds shot as pest control EVER exceeded the numbers that were shot during recreational seasons prior to 1995.