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It's been a bit rancourous here of late. I don't like that. I'd like it to be different.
I had a thought bubble today: this year has been wet here. Very wet. Perfect weather for ducks. Our duck season starts in mid-March next year (running to mid-June; stubble quail opens in April until the end of June), and the way things are looking, there'll be enough water to hold through summer for an exceptional duck season. There's also an antique and collectible arms auction in Melbourne on the first weekend of May, which usually has some interesting pieces.
In a spirit of doublegun fellowship and goodwill, if anyone is planning on visiting SE Australia for some reason around that time, you're welcome to a bed and a feed for a few nights, and I could put you in some wonderful little duck swamps and quail paddocks for a day or two, and probably get you a stickybeak at some lovely old guns.
There's provisions to allow foreign visitors temporary firearms licences and game licences, as well as importing/exporting sporting firearms, or you could have a lend of something.
What's in it for me? Well, it'll cost me not much to gain a warm and fuzzy feeling, the company of other vintage gun enthusiasts, and having someone at the other end of a swamp for a day or two to push ducks back to me when I shoot!
It looks a bit like this:

That's fine-looking duck country, cadet. Thank you for an invitation. It's a bridge too far for me now but something for dreams. Our season starts next week but I don't shoot until later because the birds have pin feathers and their flesh not prime. The weather is sharpening for real duck weather with temperatures last night of -8C in a neighbouring province.

Nice gesture there, Mate. I'd stand you to a pint of Fosters anytime. But we Colonists tend to be rancorous- remember in your history lessons the Boston Tea Party when we told King George 111 to take his taxes and stick them up his Royal arse? No progress is made by civilized peoples, only by insurrectionists, according to Marx and Lenin- Your colony was Great Britain's dumping ground for rebels and prisoners back in time, was it not? And what is a stickbeak? A hummingbird who got his bill caught in the syrup water perhaps? G'Day!!

RWTF - very, very good. Couldn't have said it better [ or as well ].

A great country nevertheless and noted your not judging rebels and prisoners for what they produced as a distinct society admired throughout the world. Militarily they have few peers in fighting prowess.

Their airmen were in our home in Saskatchewan, training under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, and the first song I learned every word was the catchy Waltzing Matilda.

One of my father's students seemed a god to me, a boxer from Melbourne, who palled later with my father overseas until blown to bits over Germany. Their notion of fun was to track down H.G. Wells in London.

Rancorous is Aussie's first name.

cadet,
I have no intention of accepting your invitation, but I appreciate it very much, what a generous and thoughtful thing to do. It made my day.
Mike

Very nice gesture Cadet. Timely as well due to the rancor in our Country over the coming presidential election. I don't see a trip to Oz in my future but if it were to happen, I'd try to take you up on the shooting...Geo

Crocs????

Crocs indeed! It's probably just the legacy of Steve Irwin but every time I see water in Australia I think of those big, nasty, prehistoric predators. But I try to not visualize my leg in a croc mouth!

Reading your invitation is a welcome change from the recent bent the BBS has taken. Thank you. I hope the other gentlemen of the board follow your lead and that the board returns to its former scholarly direction. It is such a great resource for the community.

Cadet, thank you ever so much for the offer. Owing to life circumstances, I will probably never be able to take you up on it, but I thank you for it nonetheless.

Mergus

What a very kind and generous invitation; thank you.

We are planning on coming to Perth in January 2019 to compete in the world championships for our sailing class (International Dragon). A road trip along your southern coast afterwards would be good fun; however, we'd still be out of season by the time we reached you and I'm afraid work will be calling me back home by then, I suspect.

Great thought though.

Tim