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Hi guys,

Just new to the forum I'm located in Melbourne Victoria, Australia and own two Winchester 670s which have fuelled my passion for the Model 70 rifle. They were built in the mid to late 70's I love the fit and finish and for an economy model they are beauties. They are both currently in 243 Winchester but I am in the process to arrange for one of them to be rebarrelled to 270 winchester. I have a new Sako takeoff barrel which I'll be using which is 1 inch shank x 16 T.P.I. This will be my go to Sambar deer rifle. I have purchased a Winchester factory synthetic blind mag stock for it and it will be sporting a 3-9x40 Leupold scope.

Great to find this forum as I shot my first roo with a Win 94 in 30-30 many years ago and still love those rifles.

Cheers

Jorge

Hi Jorge,
Welcome to the forum. Tell me more about kangaroo hunting. Is it common practice or for nuisance control. Is the meat popular?

Thanks Pauline for the welcome.

There is a whole industry in the commercial harvesting of kangaroo. The meat is sold locally and overseas. I'm a big fan of roo meat but the missus is not too keen on it so I mainly eat it when I'm out at a restaurant or when I shoot the odd roo. You must get a hunting permit to hunt roos and buy tags. You get 50 or 70 tags with one purchase and then you can take the kangaroo meat otherwise if you are culling it as a pest and you don't have a tag you cannot take the meat.

Roo meat is becoming more popular but it still has a long way to becoming mainstream althought the big supermarkets do stock it in odest quantities. Many hunters shoot roos for dog meat. I believe if more people ate kangaroo in Australia our urban footprint on this great island would be reduced as there would not be as much land required to be cleared or remain cleared that could be reforested. I am not a greeny but I do care about the environment. That's why I like what you guys do as you hunt and consume most of you game and the respective governments control the taking of game from a sustainability point of view.

Kangaroos are like rabbits and are prolific breeders. Although they are commercially hunted you only put a small dint in the population through hunting. There has been some outcry from animal liberation groups and the Greens Party, a radical left wing party that wants to close all the oceans to fishing and national parks and reserves to recreational activities, over the culling of roos by the conservation arms of the government. What these groups didn't understand that while we were in drought for 10+ years these animals were still multiplying and were dying slow death by starvation so the the government took action, and it hit the newspapers and TV. I believe if the government let hunters take roo for human consumption without having to go through all the rigour of the registration, licence and tags there would be more people eating roo. We are not use to the tag process like you guys are. I hunted red deer when i lived in Queensland and my mate and I would take 5 deer in one sitting as they are deemed pests as it is an introduced sitting. One time we carried about 90 kilos of meat between up and down some hills plus all our equipment, it was a killer but nothing went to waste as my mate also does a lot of charity work and gives the venison away to less fortunate people.

Anyhow enough of my ramblings. I'm glad i found this forum.

Cheers

Jorge

Thanks for the info. It is very interesting. I own a pair of emus that I bought as chicks for pets. The guy I bought them from had bought a bunch of them as they were supposed to be the "new prime rib" with much lower fat content so lower cholesterol. That never took off over here and alot of people thought they were gonna make a million by farming emus. In the end alot of these big farmers down south were actually shooting them or letting them go into the wild.

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A big welcome to Winchester owners forum Jorge in Oz

We look forward to seeing some photo's of your Winchesters

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