Hop, Bang, Flop - WALLABY Hunting in New Zealand | Ep.2 

What was the area you guys were hunting in and was it a 10/80X zone. Cheers

@@faka.umake.me.bizzzatch7458 near waimate. No 1080 dropped there

It's not just the fact that they're an invasive pest. New Zealand split away from other land masses very early on and we didn't have any mammalian predators - so we ended up with a lot of very weird bird species that had literally no idea what a predator looked like, other than other bird species filling that predator role. Many of them became ground dwellers, and more than a few gave up flying. And many of them respond to something unusual by making a lot of noise and thus attracting attention. So when people arrived and bought predators (rats initially, and then mustelids, possums etc) many of a beautiful and very unique birds were wiped out. If we want to keep the ones that still exist, we really have no option but to take pest control very seriously.

Guns in NZ are almost exclusively owned for hunting purposes, there's a big problem with invasive species so it's important they have access to the right tools for the job. Gun ownership in the US is very different.

I see that nobody has answered you, but Jake put the same videos up on his channel and I asked there and Jake was kind enough to answer - the rifle is a Chinese Norinco JW15 - basically a clone of the old Brno Model 1. I didn't ask about the thermal. Cheers.

They were hollowpoints. We used solids to shoot steel earlier in the day, but hollowpoints for hunting.

@@AirArmsHuntingSA Hmm, you even explained in video that you need to shot him in the neck rather than skull because u use solid rounds

Introduced from the UK. They eat almost anything including the eggs and young of our ground-nesting native birds.

I always drink coffee before bed. Many people in SA do it.

@@L.V-Rider crazy..we never do in India

@@UTB365 Some say coffee keeps you awake. I never experienced that.

Coffee with toasted hot cross buns, lovely. U.K.

I can’t sleep without it.