Wallaby burgers anyone ?

[wytonpjs]

I don't think CWD could be called easy after shooting them on a few venues .
The Venues i have shot CWD i have yet to come across particularly easy ones. Tough one though because i have had Roe lick my boots , smell by rear and i did have a Sika hind here that wasn't at all bothered about me or my dogs and she often slept by the side of my kennels

Like shooting teddy bears lying in the sun

I've only shot 2, a buck (gold medal) and a doe, both taken at what I consider to be fair distances but my colleague, who had arranged this opportunity, shot one at 15m My abiding memory of the day was that they stood their ground until you were very close before scarpering but unlike roe, they didn't stop at ~100m away to look back. No second chances.............

 

[Longstrider]

Used to see quite a few Wallabies when out after foxes or bunnies near Milton Keynes.

All of them on the Woburn side of MK funnily enough

 

[Nickb]

Like shooting teddy bears lying in the sun

I've only shot 2, a buck (gold medal) and a doe, both taken at what I consider to be fair distances but my colleague, who had arranged this opportunity, shot one at 15m My abiding memory of the day was that they stood their ground until you were very close before scarpering but unlike roe, they didn't stop at ~100m away to look back. No second chances.............

I think it depends on the pressure they are under.
I have shot one at 20 yds clapped in a field thinking I couldn't see it , others are off running from 200 yds away and never stop.

 

[Ratel]

Almost shot one by mistake. Had seen CWD and Munties on wife's stepfather's farm, not far from Whipsnade so took the musket for a walk. Spotted some ears in a small spinney so set up rifle on side of tree and waited to get things right. Five minutes later Boing, Boing said Zebedee and their was a Wobbly sat in front of me. Had a job not to burst out laughing.

 

[sh1kar]

Presumably as they are an invasive species aolq would cover them?
S

 

[wytonpjs]

Presumably as they are an invasive species aolq would cover them?
S

Watching

 

[AGR]

Like shooting teddy bears lying in the sun

I've only shot 2, a buck (gold medal) and a doe, both taken at what I consider to be fair distances but my colleague, who had arranged this opportunity, shot one at 15m My abiding memory of the day was that they stood their ground until you were very close before scarpering but unlike roe, they didn't stop at ~100m away to look back. No second chances.............

When you get to my age they are the perfect deer. Can't run very far, can't see very well and don't weigh very much. What's not to like?

 

[Skinny78]

Like shooting teddy bears lying in the sun

I've only shot 2, a buck (gold medal) and a doe, both taken at what I consider to be fair distances but my colleague, who had arranged this opportunity, shot one at 15m My abiding memory of the day was that they stood their ground until you were very close before scarpering but unlike roe, they didn't stop at ~100m away to look back. No second chances.............

Once they are under pressure they are as flighty as pressured deer.

 

[UnframedDave]

There used to be a colony of them in Norfolk, 40 years or so ago.
No idea if they're still there?

How common are wild wallabies in Suffolk and Norfolk?

After multiple sightings of a wallaby this week, how many could there be living in the area?

www.bbc.com

 

[hendrix's rifle]

Derbyshire used to have a small colony - presumably of escapees ?

Used to be on the Cheshire/staffs/Derbyshire border. Farmer up the road from where i used to work out in the sticks found one stuck in his cattle grid

 

[SamHuntVic]

Protected here in Victoria and then in Tasmania, depending on the species, my mate and his fellow hunters can shoot a couple of hundred in a weekend.
Have eaten Wallaby in a restaurant in Tasmania, up there with the best game meat.
Grant.

 

[3595wilk]

Henley on Thames have them. Video from a couple of days ago of mother with off spring (intended) on Oxford Mail web page.

WATCH: Two wallabies spotted roaming around countryside in Oxfordshire

Another video a couple of months ago has a mature one hopping down the main drag in Henley. Think they've been there since about 2002.

My son saw one on the A361, just south of Burford about 18 months ago......so spreading.

 

[wytonpjs]

Protected here in Victoria and then in Tasmania, depending on the species, my mate and his fellow hunters can shoot a couple of hundred in a weekend.
Have eaten Wallaby in a restaurant in Tasmania, up there with the best game meat.
Grant.

@SamHuntVic Interesting what you say about Tasmania I was fortunate to meet with David Walsh’s estate’s manager in late 2023 and spent an enjoyable evening seeing fallow, wallabies and enjoying a delightful meal with his family eating estate shot fallow. I understood from him that it was a condition of Goverment funding for trees on the estate that wallabies were to be controlled but that was against David’s wishes.

 

[JockStalk]

Kangaroo make excellent burgers, so I guess wallabies will be the same - you’ll just have less of them from a carcass
Definitely on Derbyshire Peak District. Used to watch them from the crags when on the millstone grit. Escapees from the farm apparently.

 

[sh1kar]

Kangaroo make excellent burgers, so I guess wallabies will be the same - you’ll just have less of them from a carcass
Definitely on Derbyshire Peak District. Used to watch them from the crags when on the millstone grit. Escapees from the farm apparently.

Took the grandkids to Marvell zoo today and wandered through the Wallaby walk. I tried to imagine a carcass. Didn’t seem there would be a lot of meat. Unless the tail is good eating

I reminded my son, now 36, the last time we were here was just before we went hunting for his first buff and plains game in Luangwa when he was 18. We took a laser pointer and Binos. He would show me where he thought he would shoot on different angled animals with the laser and I would coach him. Passers by reactions were priceless

S

 

[willie_gunn]

I've encountered wallabies when stalking in West Berkshire - escapees from a local wildlife park. What is most disconcerting is the noise made when they come bounding through the woods.

 

[SamHuntVic]

@SamHuntVic Interesting what you say about Tasmania I was fortunate to meet with David Walsh’s estate’s manager in late 2023 and spent an enjoyable evening seeing fallow, wallabies and enjoying a delightful meal with his family eating estate shot fallow. I understood from him that it was a condition of Goverment funding for trees on the estate that wallabies were to be controlled but that was against David’s wishes.

The Government funded trees would have been put under immense pressure if the wallabies were not kept to a reasonable number. Tasmania is Tasmania, beautiful state but "different"
Grant.