One of the first things we need to establish to answer this question is, what is social licence?
Generally speaking, Social Licence has been defined as the ongoing approval or broad social acceptance of an activity.
This leads to the fact that Social Licence for an activity such as hunting must be earned and then maintained.
Hunters and Shooters Society of Australia (HSSA) is a Hunter Leap provider which provides several short courses to our members and NSW R Licence holders. One of the courses HSSA provide is Making a successful Shot. Todays blog will be a very short overview of some of the information provided in this course.
In this blog I am going to tell you my journey of becoming a recreational shooter, and how I got my hunting properties. Along the way I will give you some tips and hints on how to find your own hunting property. By the end of this blog I hope you will see that finding a hunting property of your own is a very simple process, BUT it is not easy! Yes, there is a difference.
Hunter or poacher?
Animal rights activists, often media and some celebrities go out of their way to darken the sport of hunting and hunters.
However, these people tend to paint hunters with the same brush as poachers, and the two are not the same.
I don’t know if it is just me, but it appears to be trendy to be vegan in today’s day and age. As a hunter I obviously am not a vegan and enjoy eating meat.
I am however curious, and I like to think of myself as open minded, which leads me to asking the vegans I know, why did they become vegan?
Why orange?
Orange in particular Hunter or Blaze Orange is a colour which has been associated with hunting and more so with responsible hunting since the 1960’s.
Does hunting has a PR problem?
Yesterday was my day off from my day job. After doing my chores I decided to watch some Netflix and settled on “Stars in the sky, a hunting story”.
