Thread: Hunting rifles and ammo to hire?

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Sorry..... but lending a firearm to a stranger is a fast track to losing your "fit and Proper" status.

Totally legal if they have a FAL. The usual oponions presented as facts that happens on here all the time. Shame you're wrong locality TK, I'm always happy to kend a young guy a rifle to hunt with. Have done it all my life and dont ever recall getting "skunked" although some guys who went wallaby shooting with my rifles and ammo did report more kills than rounds I'd given them once I got home and tallied up. Must have been getting two per shot more often in one trip than I have in a lifetime!

Originally Posted by Tentman

Totally legal if they have a FAL. The usual oponions presented as facts that happens on here all the time. Shame you're wrong locality TK, I'm always happy to kend a young guy a rifle to hunt with. Have done it all my life and dont ever recall getting "skunked" although some guys who went wallaby shooting with my rifles and ammo did report more kills than rounds I'd given them once I got home and tallied up. Must have been getting two per shot more often in one trip than I have in a lifetime!

bull shit what I presented a suicide after loaning fire arm was fact - no need to name the poor buggers on here - you will get bitten one day ohhh well its your FAL

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

bull shit what I presented a suicide after loaning fire arm was fact - no need to name the poor buggers on here - you will get bitten one day ohhh well its your FAL

I don't think Tentman was referring to your particular experience, especially considering he was quoting someone else.
Your experience is one that would make anyone shy of lending a firearm and I'm sorry your friend went through that it must have been devestating for him.

Originally Posted by dannyb

I don't think Tentman was referring to your particular experience, especially considering he was quoting someone else.
Your experience is one that would make anyone shy of lending a firearm and I'm sorry your friend went through that it must have been devestating for him.

Ihad a similar experience in my profession .young bloke i was nursing ,avid hunter but emotionally very very unpredictable .my professional gut feeling was surging toward high risk self harm so i made the tough decision to request removal of his FAL.His father through contacts sabotaged my efforts, and a lot of my own collleagues thought i was overreacting .two weeks later after father son argument that lad put a bullet through his head .I did succeed with another r emoval although in fact the police already had it ,but that bloke used a 12g round in a bit of galvanised pipe to do the deed.
yes the arena of desperate humanity is not at all pretty ,there were a thousand places id rather be ,but it was my choice .even now in my third year of retirement my memory is very vivid so naturally im very cautious about certain aspects of my life and this is one of them .broken or misused weapons can be remedied humans cant so if I come across as short /brutal at times well now you know.
lastly and to illustrate my POVwas a case in the NIsome 2yrs ago ,where a well meaning senior citizen leant a 12g to a mate who wanted to take his grandkids out after ducks.
wifey gets a call from the plod -"would mr .....contact the senior sgt please ."
bloke duly frontsa to be told Plod had caught the youngsters in possesion of said weapon and using it unsupervised ,so the owners FALwas forfeited as of this instant ..no ifs or buts !!
yesiree a good deed gone wrong and how manytimes does this happen. without the legal owner knowing. take a risk in this hostileenvironment -no shit sherlock?????