Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Australia Question About Kangaroo's and Hunting Them

Doesn't anyone hunt them with Archery Equipment ?

I may be wrong, but I don't think you can actually hunt Kangaroo's as a sport endevour so to speak.

Those that are shot are done so as "culling" with quite a bit of red tape associated with it..

Pete E is correct. Also, there is absolutely NO hunting of native species with archery equipment, roos included. Technically the only native species that you can hunt for sport are some species of waterfowl. Feral species are all on the hit list though!

You can get a licence to shoot kangaroos - the culling has to occur and is regulated. The breed much better now since white man arrived here.

I'm not sure what is done with the meat - I think it may end up as pet food. So those shooting roos are doing it for a business and would not be likely to be using archery equipment, but I don't think they would necessarily precluded from doing so. Rifles are just that much better at culling.

There are national codes of practice for both commercial and non-commercial shooting of roos, which provide (among other things) for minimum calibres of firearms, and prohibit the use of bows.

There are states where roos and wallabies may legally be shot, non-commercially, but not using bows.

'Roos can't be shot with a bow.

Minimum criteria applies for licensed shooting/culling. I.e 222 or 224 cal you must use a min 50grn bullet, 22 Hornet min 45grn bullet, 17 Rem min 25grn bullet, there is also a min fps to go with each cal. You can use a shotgun with min #2 shot at less than 30 metres.

In our area, Northern NSW, up until recently 'roos could be harvested and processed as pet food for around 65c/Kg by accredited harvesters. Now you can only get cull tags as landholders.

There used to be a quite good market exporting to Russia for human consumption. But the Labour government and their Green mates stuffed that up when they were in power. Another wasted resource.

had some while i was in Adelaide....the steak i had was good, actually a real mild meat. guessing there would be few complaints about it so long as some people didnt know what they were eating.....one of the most mild red meats ive eaten....real lean, mild flavored red meat