Hunting

Last week The Punch published this piece which is critical of Federal MP Bob Katter and his financial backers, who had been photographed posing with ‘extinct in the wild’ and exotic animals, including a giraffe. This is a response to that article.
Picture: David Crossing

My name is Keith Drain, I am a hunter and shooter, I run www.huntandshoot.com.au, a hunting and shooting news website. I am 27 years old, I have a beautiful wife and I work as a manager at a cinema. If you met me you’d think I was a regular guy - that’s because I am.

Like many others, I was introduced to shooting and fishing by my Dad. Hunting to me is an enjoyable and rewarding pastime. I get to go out and do what I love doing, I get to provide meat for my family and my dogs and I get to help the environment by ridding the land of feral and introduced species, which to me is very important.  I have no shame in owning firearms or hunting.

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  • Blaze Peter Freemantle says:

    11:01am | 09/11/11

    Haha yeah ok. Take the gun away “KIM” and are u still gonna be dealing with a defenceles animal? A lion? A elephant? a tiger? Nah, id think ud be ripped in half. “PRESERVATION, EXTINCTION….. OH NO” It baffles me. Its as if people assume that we’ve been here for… Read more »

  • Cameron says:

    06:27pm | 08/11/11

    Guess what Kim, Hunting has been a hobby since the dawn of man, if your one of those ‘oh poor defenceless animals and plants that we eat, how could we!’ while humans kill how many millions of animals to eat a year, which we specifically breed to slaughter, dismember and… Read more »

 

Federal MP Bob Katter is a throw-back nutjob bunker-mentality troglodyte. Well, we’ve known that for a while. But this just in: His close associates and financial backers are gun-toting redneck heartless bastards with a slimy influence on politics.

David Auger of QLD Gun Exchange with a giraffe in Zimbabwe

Today’s Australian unravels the ties between Katter’s backers and the gun lobby.  Including trophy pics of the financial powers behind Katter’s Australian Party with the exotic animals they’ve shot. Including a rare scimitar-horned oryx – officially extinct in the wild – and there’s also the above picture of David Auger, another financial backer, posing with a dead giraffe which, according to The Oz, he has shot.

What kind of fuckwit shoots a giraffe? Or a hippo?

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  • Michelle says:

    10:56pm | 22/03/12

    Why did you have to make all the redneck comments and also why so much profanity? - we don’t even have the “yee-haw Southern Baptist hidey-hole” types that you describe in your article in this country.  Regardless of whether you believe your points are valid or not, your credibility is… Read more »

  • a free australia says:

    01:42am | 18/03/12

    Tory your story paints all law biding gun owners as criminals and thats wrong. Kread katter gun policies be a real repoter instead of makibg crap up. Not like katters hand out guns for free , the only major change is air rifles which have the same fps as a… Read more »

 

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