Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Learns About Returning VS Hunting Boomerang - Australia" video.
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Australian flies are very persistent, unlike around the world. I have experienced flies in many coutries. Mostly they shoo away easily, and do not get too bothersome.
In Australia, the flies, when swatted at by a swipe of the hand barely depart and immediately return. But especially bad is they home direct to where they can draw moisture. Around eyes, nose and mouth are direct targets. Also large accumulations on back of shoulders is common, but there they at least are not bothersome, often best left, otherwise may end up irritatingly in your face. Easy really bad are into nose and mouth, easy to swallow some if not careful.
As a consequence the common "Aussie Salute" the often seen swipe across the face by a persons hand to momentarily drive flies from the face. You get into tje habit quite quickly, but tourists do experience some problems.
The hat you recently had with a nu.ber of things on strongs around the brink is a local solution of people on the land. The dangling thongs, corks, bottle caps, anything in fact to hang around, by swinging do help keep flies away a bit, as the motion keeps them moving away without needing constant hand swipe.
Hat like you received are common tourists souvenirs. But you do seen them for real around the place. Sadly many 'repellants' also act as attractant in many cases as much as repelling.
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Many tourist souvenir bommerangs are not realy good for throwing, just mass produced, with illustrations or mock aboriginal art. Easy to produce form good flat wood, commonly ply wood or thin boards, a bit of edge rounding, a bit of paint, lacquer, and images...bommerang for sale.
In my teens we made many from plywood, and even got good return a tion by correct airfoil shaping. Some practice and lo good throw fly and catch in the hand.
Real aboriginal bommerangs are fashioned from curved roots and bush branches. Necesary for strength, as cutting from a flat board puts woodgrain wrong one one side or other, easily fraturing it on hitting ground or objects.
Hunting bomerangs are mostly heavier and harder wood, for maximum kill or knockout potential, and not foiled for return curve, but accurate if even curved path of flight. Normally even one arm is far shorter than the other, unlike returning types that tend mostly symmetrical arms.
I can confirm getting hit by a hinting type hurts, and could easily cause serious injury. Do not throw from person to person, you could well, even at best, end up in hospital.
Do not be disappointed with return of typical tourist souvenirs. While many will still return if thrown well, they fall far short of a well made one. Results vary by source. If it is plywood, probable a visual product. However if truely carved of natural curved grown wood more likely well formed and more likely to fly well.
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Rabbits of course are not natural prey for aborigines. Rabbits are introduced by European, as are foxes, goats, deer, pigs, buffplo, camels, horses zgeep and many more. Aboriginals would have hunted kangaroo, walaby emu, goannas, cockatoos (very tough meat). The latter, a joke goes to cook a galah or cockatoon, add some rocks to the pot when rocks are soft chuck away the bird and eat the rocks.
On one 4WD trip with several trail bike riders in north western Victoria desert, Sunraisia Country, one rider insisted he wanted to live off hunting. Het shot and prepared several Galahs, grey pink, cockatoos. After boilong for three hours, that would cause a chicken to fall apart, even bones crumbling, these galahs were so chewy, he gave up after half the first one and went hungry that night insisting to not eat other persons food.
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