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Clay targets are a legitimate form of shooting and those are often the shooters who are assumed to be pro duck shooting but the truth is the opposite. Duck shooting has very little support left. @DanielAndrewsMP

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@SeanCulottes Having witnessed the cruelty from duck shooters so frequently you'll have to excuse me from your idyllic position of "good people on both sides". The actions of duck shooters kill and maim birds in the thousands and they do it because they find it fun to kill.

@DuckGeelong Maybe both sides are doing what they can and your anger is misdirected? Hunters and conservation groups are both invested in prolonging the species: developers and venture capitalists are the ones you should take unbridged with. At the very least don't assume everyone is evil.

This duck shooter plucked this dead bird in front of wildlife rescuers, laughing as he did so, just to taunt those who though this duck deserved to keep living. Duck shooters are not good people.

Here is a female Australian Wood Duck currently in care, just to brighten your day.

@SeanCulottes It's not conservation if your aim is to harm the species you are supposedly preserving. That kind of green washing rhetoric is also being used by shooters in Australia, but it is also a blatant lie. There are so many genuine conservation groups on both countries doing more.

@DuckGeelong "Duck shooters are not good people" Just cause one guy is a dick doesn't mean you should make sweeping generalizations about large groups of people. Duck hunters collectively do more for the preservation of water fowl then almost any other group

"Today we made history! The state budget has just been handed down & we have secured tens of millions of dollars for animals! We've now made animals front & centre, with the most animal friendly budget in history!" @AJP_Victoria @AndyMeddickMP #VOTE1AJP bit.ly/3LvITSa

Duck Shooters in Victoria unironically tell us how they respect the birds they kill. Does this look like respect?

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” ~Joseph Campbell #NatureHeals

This is the toll of duck shooting in Victoria, from one man, in one afternoon. No knowing how many flew away injured from this killer, to die in great pain over the coming days. Government sanctioned animal cruelty. #BanDuckShooting

@angie_karan This is the world that hunters leave behind. Theirs is a hobby of cruelty.

The most saddest picture💔

@animaljusticeAU @DuckGeelong @AndyMeddickMP If GMA can't identify and prosecute these offenders, then the Labor Government's claim that duck shooting is responsibly managed is a tax payer funded lie.

shooter "stuffs one of the birds into a pocket. He then stomps on what appears to be a bird in an attempt to bury it in the mud. The bird resurfaces & it looks very much like a threatened Blue-wing Shoveler" via @DuckRescue #banduckshooting

Disgraceful! Duck shooters illegally maims a protected & threatened blue winged shoveler To conceal the crime, he proceeds to stomp her into the mud. This is #Duckshooting NOT SPORT NOT RECREATION This is #AnimalCruelty @AndyMeddickMP #banduckhunting

This is outrageous, how dare a person treat our native #wildlife with such cruelty & then attemptto cover it up. Ban it @DanielAndrewsMP

@DanielAndrewsMP will you be playing golf or killing ducks this Easter? Because, you know, they're basically both the same thing. This is a big weekend for bloodsports. The wetlands will not know peace this Easter. #BanDuckShooting

How to use the Easter holiday? If the idea of killing birds for fun jumped into your mind as an appropriate celebration of a Christian holiday - seek professional help please.

@DuckGeelong Every year these horrendous seasons are approved we see endangered species being killed and there have been deaths in past years of shooters. They are unnecessary carnage, a clear majority of Victorians get it. Why doesn't the Premier?