Well put thinkabit, must be a very smelly island for the 1600 (Is Mise is that number after some culling?) inhabitants, all those dead rotting Wallaby's around the place, with Deadeye Dick adding another one to the pile every 6 minutes. We must assume he never misses. His Mates only bagged 53,000 between them, they must be bad shots.

Here in NSW we had a trial of Feral Animal Control in National Parks, it was a fiasco. The governments own figures showed it cost &7152 for each pest animal shot by the great white hunters. It might have been better if the feral animals were elephants then they might have hit something.

One of the states best known hunters Tony Azzi was being investigated by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, and the NSW Police for shooting protected defenceless wombats.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/multimillionaire-car-dealer-tony-azzi-investigated-over-wombat-deaths-20151218-glqoga.html

Most of these Rambo hunters like to get well tanked up before they go out and shoot everything in sight. We have the duck hunting season in Victoria, where in the past drunken hunters have been guilty of shooting and maiming all kinds poor animals, including a few ducks.

Thinkabit,

Depending on how thick the macropods are on the ground then a professional culler with a semi-auto rifle should be able to kill 10 in 15 seconds, probably faster. If he has plenty of magazines then the average would go up.

At $3 a head he could afford to pay two men to assist in tagging/removal etc.

30,000 is well within the bounds of possibility.

Paul,

The relevance to the Greens is that they have jumped on the "Get on TV bandwagon" over the proposed culling of a relative few macropods around Canberra but have let this King Island culling go unnoticed, one wonders why?

Never heard of the "famous hunter" that you mention.

Could we have some references to your other allegations, or are they just wild figments of Green bile/

Yes, if I was you Is Mise, I would be so embarrassed by the allegations against well known hunter Tony Azzi that I to would deny all knowledge of Mr Azzi.

The flouting of the law, the cruelty of the killers etc, when it comes to the duck hunting season in Victoria has been well documented but one more time for the dummy. You can read all about it on the website.

http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/vic-duck-shooting-investigation-2016.php?ua_s=ga

is Mise is there any truth to the rumor that the Australian Rugby Team is forbidden from visiting King Island so they don't become part of that Wallaby cull.

Back peddling about Dead Eye Dick I see, the man with the 30,000 kills "...professional culler, with a semi-auto rifle, should be able to kill 10 in 15 seconds, probably faster. If he has plenty of magazines then the average would go up. At $3 a head he could afford to pay two men to assist in tagging/removal etc..."

What a load of conjecture!

Didn't answer my question about the book!

Of course if you were Is Mise Paul1405, you wouldn't be such an insufferable dill, & would have no reason to be embarrassed, unlike you have now.

Is Mise: Wow, well you've changed the goal posts considerably there. But given this completely new scenario I would suggest that he finds a new job such as steady employment labouring on a building site at $25/hr. Let's do the math:

Ok, so your rapid fire marksman now employs two people. Let's say that they are such uber efficient workers that they complete their work in only 4hrs* and only work 5 days/week for 48wks/year.

In Australia, the minimum it costs an employer to employ a casual adult doing physical laboring work is about $21/hr after you include the additional costs such as superannuation, workers-comp, etc.

So now he's paying: 2employees*$21/hr*4hr/day*5day/week*48wk/year = $40,320 wages/year

On top of this, he has the other costs involved in running the business. For example: ammunition (which considering he's firing 30,000+ bullets a year is in the thousands of dollars); registration, insurance, running and maintenance cost of his vehicle; the cost of new high performance rifles which at 30,000 uses a year are going to need replacing regularly and these are not cheap; insurance for personal and property damage; red tape costs such as shooting permits; cost of paperwork/accounting, etc.
Let's say that he is an exceptionally thrifty businessman and keeps these costs to just $10,000/year (if he could manage to do it for so little then we should have him as our federal treasurer!)

So now his $90,000 that he received from the bounties collected gives a net of only about $40,000. This is not a great income considering the effort and risk involved. And it is an exceptionally risky job- he could easily accidentally shoot someone (such as an employee) or something he's not meant to-- in fact considering the number of shots/year and the fact that he's often shoots in bursts of 10 or more and shoots at rate of about a shot per second it is almost certainly going to happen if he does it for any number of years.

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I would strongly recommend that he finds a better job! Even labouring for a construction company will earn him more money per year- and it has better overall better prospects, since for instance he could eventually become a tradesman earning way more than he ever would shooting roos/wallabies.

*(The reason I said 4hrs is because this is the minimum number of hours that an employer must provide to employees on any given day under many awards. In addition, I've allow them to work only during standard pay times days cause he doesn't want to pay any penalty rates. This means this is the very mimimum that he can pay in wages. In reality it would cost a lot more than this!)