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Shooting In National Parks - NSW 13-Jul-2012 At 6:41:50 AM salty crag

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On 11/07/2012 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>Kinda offtopic...
>Deliverance, the movie, although interesting, was not entirely accurate
>from a bowhunters perspective...
>I have through-shot with a broadhead arrow a reasonably mature pig, that
>was grazing by a farm dam at the time. The arrow after having penetrated
>the lung/heart area was embedded in the earthen embankment of the farm
>dam, while the pig continued to graze seemingly unaffected, ... though
>it did flinch as the arrow went through...
>Not long after, the pig dropped dead due to its chest cavity being filled
>with internal bleeding.
> All in all a desirable result at the time, and a perfect example of
>the effectiveness of an arrows method of killing.

>When the pig-penetrator in the movie received the arrow in his back that
>stuck out of his chest enough for him to realise that he had been shot
>with it, I call BS(!), as in my pig hunting example he would not even know
>he had been shot unless he happened to glimpse the arrow striking a point
>somewhat beyond his chest...
> None of this reality takes away from the compelling viewing whilst
>I was sitting in the movie theatre at the time however!

Will the above also equate for the climber halfway up the wall, they won't know they've been shot they will wonder why there is suddenly a big sticky red patch on the rock in front of their chest?
I also wonder how long before vic rednecks and gun lobby get our state to follow suit. They just allowed an open cut gold mine in the Wombat state forest why not give shooters free range. Lots of deer in my fav spots in the vic range that need culling.