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Shooting in NSW NPs

To: John Leonard <>, Canberra Birds <>, "" <>
Subject: Shooting in NSW NPs
From: Graeme Stevens <>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:03:49 +1100
Indeed John and I think the SMH article refers to a couple of them.
 
I would certainly like to hear that shooters are active and (sadly) give them a 
wide berth as I have done already in Binya State Forest.
 
The thought of the "West Sydney drive-by boys" getting their hands on a supply 
of silencers isn't that appealing either and the Police Minister seems 
singularly unimpressed with the idea.
 
But lastly, and those better qualified on physics please correct me if I am 
wrong, but muzzle silencers are only effective on sub-sonic arms (eg handguns 
and say .22 rimfires). Once you get to anything capable of reliably handling 
deer or pigs you are way out of that league. And then there's shotguns?
 
Graeme Stevens
 

> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:45:56 +1100
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Shooting in NSW NPs
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> SMH today "Hunters would be allowed to use silencers on their guns while
> shooting feral animals in national parks...."
> 
> I hope I'm not the only person who can see a problem with this idea.
> 
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> John Leonard
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