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Croc! Croc! Croc!' The terrifying moment pig hunters open fire on a giant crocodile...
Daily Mail (Australia/UK) ^ | 20th October 2017 | Brooke Rolfe

Posted on 10/19/2017 4:58:35 PM PDT by naturalman1975

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Video can be more easily seen at: https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=663_1508408109 (I've found the Daily Mail's video player leaves a lot to be desired).

These fellows were lucky they were pig shooting and so had some reasonable firepower at their disposal. On the other hand, I suppose they wouldn't have been there if they weren't pig shooting.

1 posted on 10/19/2017 4:58:35 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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They were decked out in (Aussie?) military gear?

I presume the rifle was FN-FAL 308.


2 posted on 10/19/2017 5:10:27 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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I could not get the video to play tho it did show some still images.

I live in Florida and we do have crocs but only in the extreme Southern part of the state. From what I have seen and read, they are much worse than gators and gators are bad enough.

One of my earliest memories is of my Father killing a gator in a nearby pond. He shot it with a war bring back Luger. Back then it was standard procedure to kill every one you saw.


3 posted on 10/19/2017 5:10:33 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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Being Australia, I would guess on it being a .303 Lee Enfield.


4 posted on 10/19/2017 5:17:00 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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youtube link

https://youtu.be/JWfIUO_QQQM

Is he shooting a semi-auto? I didn’t think they were allowed.


5 posted on 10/19/2017 5:18:31 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Very poor video but from just a fraction of a second glance, it did look like an FAL. Definitely semi-auto.


6 posted on 10/19/2017 5:22:42 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: txnativegop

I presume the rifle was FN-FAL 308.


I could not tell. Looked a bit like the HK-91, but images were pretty partial and rough.


7 posted on 10/19/2017 5:23:32 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: yarddog

not a semi-auto, not in .303 Brit.


8 posted on 10/19/2017 5:24:31 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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Crossing the Everglades in Florida you could see the gators in the reeds on the side of the road.It never occurred to me for a second to get out of the car and investigate.
9 posted on 10/19/2017 5:25:59 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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Yup, looked semi-auto to me too.


10 posted on 10/19/2017 5:27:26 PM PDT by umgud
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The front sight looked a lot like an HK design, but impossible to be sure.

There were three hunters. At the end you see two in front of the cameraman.

People can get semi-autos if needed for special purposes. This looks pretty justified.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/08/australian-gun-culture-part-18.html


11 posted on 10/19/2017 5:29:52 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Is he shooting a semi-auto? I didn’t think they were allowed.

There are a lot of myths about Australian gun laws around - including the one that all semi-automatic weapons are banned.

You can't own a semi-automatic on a basic gun licence (Category A/B), but getting a Category C licence which allows for basic semi-autos with a magazine capacity of up to five rounds (and this man fired five rounds) is not that hard - you just have to provide a reason for it and pass a slightly more stringent background check (old criminal convictions more than ten years in the past generally won't stop somebody getting an A/B licence if they've been lawabiding since - but they will have a hard time getting more than that). Pig shooting is a perfectly valid reason for a C licence to be issued. And if you are a professional hunter (which these fellows could be), you can even get a D licence which allows a much wider range of semi-autos with greater capacity.

12 posted on 10/19/2017 5:35:20 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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Good to know. Still, it would be nice to have more than a 5 round magazine.


13 posted on 10/19/2017 6:36:39 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Especially if the croc keeps coming :)


14 posted on 10/19/2017 6:40:07 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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I don’t live in the United States. I live in California. We can have 10 round magazines here.


15 posted on 10/19/2017 6:49:52 PM PDT by umgud
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How did they mistake a crocodile for a pig?

No, I didn’t read past the title.


16 posted on 10/19/2017 6:52:04 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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I was in error - Category C does allow 10 round magazines for rifles - 5 rounds is for shotguns. Still, one of the key differences between C and D is the magazine limitation.


17 posted on 10/19/2017 6:53:19 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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Glad to hear that Australia is not as bad gun wise as I thought. I spent some time there back in the early 70’s and really liked it and the people.


18 posted on 10/19/2017 6:59:00 PM PDT by umgud
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I don’t live in the United States. I live in California.

You crack me up man. How ya been doing?

19 posted on 10/19/2017 7:00:43 PM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Donate monthly and end FReepathons.)
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If it got any better than this, I couldn’t take it.


20 posted on 10/19/2017 7:04:08 PM PDT by umgud
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