Spotlighting - Page 2

rondog · 04-24-2008, 10:20 AM

WTH is a "drop bear"?

musicmaniac · 04-24-2008, 11:38 AM

I was wondering the same thing rondog. I googled it and it appears to be what we Americans call a koala bear.

Yikes! I would hate to have one of these guys attack me!

andrew cochran · 04-24-2008, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by musicmaniac

I was wondering the same thing rondog. I googled it and it appears to be what we Americans call a koala bear.

Yikes! I would hate to have one of these guys attack me!

He don't look to friendly! lol

338RemUltraMag · 04-24-2008, 12:28 PM

how big do those cute fuzzy critters get??? They kill people?!?!? Can you shoot them???

sc928porsche · 04-24-2008, 12:37 PM

Night hunting...........Don't you guys have enough advantage over the game? Afterall, you are using a gun! Sorry, feel the same way about using dogs except for retrieve only.

musicmaniac · 04-24-2008, 12:40 PM

Hmm... how is hunting at night an advantage over the game? Most all animals have inherently better night vision than humans. Please explain why you feel this is an advantage sc928.

rondog · 04-24-2008, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by musicmaniac

Hmm... how is hunting at night an advantage over the game? Most all animals have inherently better night vision than humans. Please explain why you feel this is an advantage sc928.

They're using high-powered spotlights to find 'em, and I'm sure it blinds them enough to where they freeze in their tracks. Not especially sporting, IMO, but I guess if you're shooting pests that number in the millions and are overrunning the countryside, it's probably OK. Kinda like us shooting prairie dogs, except we do it in the daylight.

I always thought Koalas were pretty docile? All they eat is eucalyptus leaves, right? Hard to visualize one attacking a human.

musicmaniac · 04-24-2008, 01:22 PM

Good point rondog. I guess the spotlights would blind them at night. I humbly retract my previous statement. I don't personally have any kind of problem with what they are doing though. Only because they are so overpopulated as Irish said.

I also thought koalas were friendly! But, when I searched google images for "dropbear" the very first picture that came up was this one.

And the fourth was this one that said, "injuries to dropbear victim"

Turns out they may be pretty vicious!

irish murphy · 04-24-2008, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by sc928porsche

Night hunting...........Don't you guys have enough advantage over the game? Afterall, you are using a gun! Sorry, feel the same way about using dogs except for retrieve only.

Well ill just have to say you have no idea what our FERAL populations are like.Feral being the word not GAME.And if you havent done it how could you possibly have any idea of how much of an advantage it really is?????
I will say that it is an advantage on some animals.But not all.And when shooting feral pests the idea of it is to shoot as many as you can.After all most of the places i shoot/hunt the farmer/prop owner is very happy when you tell them you shot a dozen foxes,a couple dozen rabbits,a few hares and some cats during the night.You are entitaled to your opinion but i dont agree with it.I see deer a lot during a spotlighting session.If they are being culled they would be shot underlight.But i dont shoot deer under light.Pigs are hard to catch in the light.Goats are also hard to spotlight.So you see its not all that easy especially foxes when they have seen the light before or been whistled before.They run real fast.

Drop bears arent the same as koalas.Oh by the way koalas arent bears.

rondog · 04-24-2008, 03:55 PM

Come on, Irish, tell us more about these drop bears! WTF are they? Got any photos?

As far as the pest hunting, I might have a reason to visit AUS if could get in on some of that action. I'm not a hunter, but have no moral qualms about shooting vermin. But, you guys have all those nasty snakes there.....

musicmaniac · 04-24-2008, 03:58 PM

Huh. Wierd. So dropbears and koalas are different?!?!? They look so much like each other though! Haha! You guys do have koalas there too then though right? I think I may be losing my marbles. Haha!

irish murphy · 04-24-2008, 04:02 PM

You dont see snakes when you are spotlighting.Have been spotlighting close to 30 years and have never seen one at night.If you ever head over this way look me up before you leave and come for a spotlight.I must warn you though.Its a long night.Usually start around 10pm(during daylight saving) and continue on to 2am/3am some times to daylight.

You blokes have dug up the dirt on the drop bears by the look of it hahahahahhahahahha

Nathan123 · 04-24-2008, 06:56 PM

Drop bears are nasty buggers. They are similar in size but mean as piss. You blokes already have a few pictures of them above. They look almost the same as a koala, but therein lies the danger. Thats why it is mainly tourists and drunk people who get bit. Because either they dont see them, or they write it off as being just a koala until it jumps down out of the tree and grabs hold of their leg.

Murph is right, Koala's arent bears either.

Romey · 04-24-2008, 07:13 PM

I seen a drop bear in a zoo once and thinking it a very large koala i walked up to it, thng nearly took the cage apart trying to get at me and everyone else! smelled like the the north end of a south bound cow too

reverend ron · 04-24-2008, 07:25 PM

rish-It looks like all of you have white lights. We use spots with red lens here. Do you also.

vikingpreacher · 04-24-2008, 07:26 PM

I can't spotlight anything but coons here

. I don't like the head off my animals until I'm gutting them

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338RemUltraMag · 04-25-2008, 01:36 AM

all those photos are chopped, I did research... the "drop Bear" is a mythical creature although he had me going for a while. Noone has ever seen the animal. period.

Nathan123 · 04-25-2008, 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by 338RemUltraMag

all those photos are chopped, I did research... the "drop Bear" is a mythical creature although he had me going for a while. Noone has ever seen the animal. period.

That is what those unsuspecting back packers thought too. Poor buggers.

musicmaniac · 04-25-2008, 10:17 AM

I hear that rubbing vegemite behind your ears will stop them from attacking you though right nathan and Irish? haha! You guys definitely had me going! Here is the wikipedia article on dropbears.
Mythical creature

Oh, and Irish and Nathan,
If you guys ever come here to America, make sure to look out for the hoop snakes. They'll get ya!

Jimmy243 · 05-04-2008, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by musicmaniac

I hear that rubbing vegemite behind your ears will stop them from attacking you though right nathan and Irish? haha! You guys definitely had me going! Here is the wikipedia article on dropbears.
Mythical creature

Oh, and Irish and Nathan,
If you guys ever come here to America, make sure to look out for the hoop snakes. They'll get ya!

You shouldn't believe everything you read in Wiki, it is not a peer-reviewed scientific journal...
Drop bears are a freak gene-splice between the common koala and the now extinct (some say) thylacine or tasmanian tiger. They do exist and are the only remaining marsupial (not a true 'bear') that preys on large land mammals.
You can easily distinguish them from koalas by the fetid stench of the carcasses underneath their nest-tree.

04-24-2008, 10:20 AM	#21
rondog Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Parker, CO Posts: 1,344	WTH is a "drop bear"? __________________ What she doesn't know about, doesn't piss her off.....

04-24-2008, 11:38 AM	#22
musicmaniac Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Glendale, AZ Posts: 473 Images: 7	I was wondering the same thing rondog. I googled it and it appears to be what we Americans call a koala bear. Yikes! I would hate to have one of these guys attack me! __________________ A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. -- Sigmund Freud

04-24-2008, 12:40 PM	#26
musicmaniac Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Glendale, AZ Posts: 473 Images: 7	Hmm... how is hunting at night an advantage over the game? Most all animals have inherently better night vision than humans. Please explain why you feel this is an advantage sc928. __________________ A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. -- Sigmund Freud

04-24-2008, 01:22 PM	#28
musicmaniac Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Glendale, AZ Posts: 473 Images: 7	Good point rondog. I guess the spotlights would blind them at night. I humbly retract my previous statement. I don't personally have any kind of problem with what they are doing though. Only because they are so overpopulated as Irish said. I also thought koalas were friendly! But, when I searched google images for "dropbear" the very first picture that came up was this one. And the fourth was this one that said, "injuries to dropbear victim" Turns out they may be pretty vicious! __________________ A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. -- Sigmund Freud

04-24-2008, 03:55 PM	#30
rondog Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Parker, CO Posts: 1,344	Come on, Irish, tell us more about these drop bears! WTF are they? Got any photos? As far as the pest hunting, I might have a reason to visit AUS if could get in on some of that action. I'm not a hunter, but have no moral qualms about shooting vermin. But, you guys have all those nasty snakes there..... __________________ What she doesn't know about, doesn't piss her off.....

04-24-2008, 12:28 PM	#24
338RemUltraMag Banned Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cumberland, MD USA Posts: 199	how big do those cute fuzzy critters get??? They kill people?!?!? Can you shoot them???

04-24-2008, 12:37 PM	#25
sc928porsche Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: living in Alabama now Posts: 239	Night hunting...........Don't you guys have enough advantage over the game? Afterall, you are using a gun! Sorry, feel the same way about using dogs except for retrieve only.

04-24-2008, 03:58 PM	#31
musicmaniac Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Glendale, AZ Posts: 473 Images: 7	Huh. Wierd. So dropbears and koalas are different?!?!? They look so much like each other though! Haha! You guys do have koalas there too then though right? I think I may be losing my marbles. Haha! __________________ A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. -- Sigmund Freud

04-24-2008, 04:02 PM	#32
irish murphy Banned Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Canberra,Australia Posts: 1,028 Blog Entries: 5	You dont see snakes when you are spotlighting.Have been spotlighting close to 30 years and have never seen one at night.If you ever head over this way look me up before you leave and come for a spotlight.I must warn you though.Its a long night.Usually start around 10pm(during daylight saving) and continue on to 2am/3am some times to daylight. You blokes have dug up the dirt on the drop bears by the look of it hahahahahhahahahha

04-24-2008, 06:56 PM	#33
Nathan123 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Newcastle, N.S.W, Australia Posts: 356	Drop bears are nasty buggers. They are similar in size but mean as piss. You blokes already have a few pictures of them above. They look almost the same as a koala, but therein lies the danger. Thats why it is mainly tourists and drunk people who get bit. Because either they dont see them, or they write it off as being just a koala until it jumps down out of the tree and grabs hold of their leg. Murph is right, Koala's arent bears either.

04-24-2008, 07:13 PM	#34
Romey Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Montana Posts: 471	I seen a drop bear in a zoo once and thinking it a very large koala i walked up to it, thng nearly took the cage apart trying to get at me and everyone else! smelled like the the north end of a south bound cow too __________________ Romey High Country Knives http://www.highcountryknives.com

04-24-2008, 07:25 PM	#35
reverend ron Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: pa.where I can still own any firearm I choose. Posts: 41	rish-It looks like all of you have white lights. We use spots with red lens here. Do you also.

04-24-2008, 07:26 PM	#36
vikingpreacher Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Iowa Posts: 269	I can't spotlight anything but coons here. I don't like the head off my animals until I'm gutting them. __________________ Join the cartridge comparisons group! http://gunandgame.com/forums/group.php?groupid=3

04-25-2008, 01:36 AM	#37
338RemUltraMag Banned Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cumberland, MD USA Posts: 199	all those photos are chopped, I did research... the "drop Bear" is a mythical creature although he had me going for a while. Noone has ever seen the animal. period.

04-25-2008, 10:17 AM	#39
musicmaniac Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Glendale, AZ Posts: 473 Images: 7	I hear that rubbing vegemite behind your ears will stop them from attacking you though right nathan and Irish? haha! You guys definitely had me going! Here is the wikipedia article on dropbears. Mythical creature Oh, and Irish and Nathan, If you guys ever come here to America, make sure to look out for the hoop snakes. They'll get ya! __________________ A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. -- Sigmund Freud Last edited by musicmaniac; 04-25-2008 at 10:21 AM.