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Not lawful for roos. There are mandatory codes of practice for commercial and non-commercial shooting of roos, under which the minimum cartridge specified is .222 Rem with a 50 gn bullet or .204 Rem with a 40 grain. The .22H is lawful for smaller wallabies.

yes i can understand that the way many people shoot at animals and targets

A.22 rimfire just doesn't have enough power to drop a big red unless it's a perfectly placed shot at relatively close range.

Rimfire under 50m will do it a 12ga and bb’s will work also under 50m but if commercial shooting head shots are a must and you don’t want to be caught doing the wrong thing when you’ve invested so much

Well placed shots worked ok for me (quite a while ago), but I also had head shots with my .22 rimfire that glanced off the roo's skull....so, not as much room for error as using a centrefire.

Very unusual to have a 22 glance off there head there head is not much different than a rabbit they are very very thin skulled hence why we use varmint rifles

A Big Red, and the angle of impact did the trick.

So a graze rather than a glance ? A 22 will crack a fox skull at 100 and there harder than any roo I’ve seen there a marsupial not a goat

It was a face on shot, the projectile hit above the eyeline, between the ears, skimmed along the skull and left a furrow in the fur and skin leaving bare skull exposed.

After I fired the shot, a friend shot it with his .30/30, when it was on the ground dead, being surprised, I fired a few more shots at the same angle with the same result, the projectle left furrows in skin and fur, exposing the bare skull without penetrating.

Of course, it would have been different with a side shot or a different angle. My point is that using my .22 rimfire was not the right choice on that occasion.

Nah your right there it’s not ideal at all I use a 22 to dispatch them from under 10m other than that a centrefire is the only sensible option

Interesting night on the thermal see if you can guess the critters?
https://imgur.com/a/Wp35qLR

1 & 2: Goat or sheep
3: Fox
4. Wombat

I’ll let some aussies have a go before I answer but you got one right

Fallow, fox, echidna.

The thermal is interesting. The locals up here are using them but it is not something I have had any experience with.

Thermal is illegal in our country, a hole government restricts it, so I have no experience. I am betting I am correct on the Fox lol

Good call on the echidna, SJ I was thinking it was some sort of Porcupine or Hedgehog.

No takers

You would’ve been closer if you said pig!
There Hog deer mate
Second is a Fox
And the last is an echidna, not sure what he was doing there I was in the middle of a swamp any way , good to see the little deer getting about they are our most regulated deer only can hunt them in April and you have to apply for tags and can only get one male and one female

You are further South than I thought.

Seymour perhaps. I saw a couple of roo racks the last time I went through there.

I shall ask a couple of my mates.


Square in the middle of the best Sambar country.

This fox was out playing with a wombat video was to long to show the lot
200m away he rolled after the shot think I may of missed high or even nicked him what you think?
https://imgur.com/a/3p1Urii

These buggers hear the truck and come running don’t normally bother them but in hog deer country I get rid of them if I can went back to processing then thought why not use the savage rascal so I pulled it out and sorted him out abit quieter than the 223
https://imgur.com/a/fectXeG