Professional Hunters Driven Down by Regulation, Fees in Australia

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- Commercial hunters are the stuff of legend. Scottish Karamojo Bell harvested elephants for ivory in Africa at the turn of the century. American Billy Dixon made the famed long shot with a buffalo rifle to stop the attack on Adobe Walls. Norwegian Per Jonsson harvested 165 polar bears on Halfmoon Island near Svalbard, Norway, in two years in 1969-71.

Increasing human populations and agriculture have reduced the potential for commercial hunting. Australia is a place where commercial hunters survive. Australia is a continent as big as the lower 48 states, with a human population smaller than Texas. Australia has game populations that must be controlled to prevent starvation and environmental degradation. Australia exports hundreds of millions of dollars of meat and hides a year, harvested by commercial Australian hunters. Kangaroo hunters are being driven out of business by over-regulation driven by animal rights activists. From theland.com:

He’s probably the biggest kangaroo shooter by numbers in Australia, but making ends meet in this industry is almost impossible.

Shaun Mills operates out of Packsaddle in western NSW, but at the end of the day he’s a low-income …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand