Contract shooter, Southern Highlands
Vertebrate pest control for Southern Highlands grazing country, acreage and bushland-boundary properties.
On Point Contract Shooting is a licensed, insured NSW vertebrate pest control business working across Southern Highlands and the surrounding districts. We hold a NSW Firearms Licence Category A, B and D as a VPAC accredited contract shooter and business, a Prohibited Weapons Permit for suppressors, and full public liability insurance.
Call Grant on 0410 533 948, or request a site assessment.
The country around Southern Highlands
The Highlands is grazing and lifestyle country running up against serious bush. Improved pasture, horse and cattle properties and acreage holdings sit against escarpment, state forest and national park, with cold, wet winters that change how and when country can be worked.
The bush boundary is the whole story. It holds animals that feed out onto pasture and improved country at night and go back to cover before daylight, which is why daylight assessments of a Highlands property routinely under-read the problem.
What presses hardest here
Species pressure is not the same across New South Wales, and the control program should not be either. Around Southern Highlands the recurring problems are:
Feral deer are the dominant pressure: pasture competition, fence damage, damage to plantings and revegetation, and road risk on the rural roads. The ecological case is on the record too, with Wingecarribee Shire Council identifying grazing and trampling by feral herbivores, deer among them, as a threat to Southern Highlands Shale Woodland. If your block adjoins remnant woodland, that gives a control program a purpose beyond your own fence line, and it can matter for funding.
Foxes across grazing and acreage country, on lambs, poultry and native fauna.
Rabbits on improved pasture and lighter ground.
Wild dogs off the escarpment and forest country onto grazing land.
A thermal drone survey is what confirms which of these is actually driving the damage on your property, rather than which one you have seen most recently.
How the country changes the job
Cold, wet and foggy conditions affect both access and thermal work, so timing is part of the scope rather than an afterthought. Steep escarpment country limits vehicle access. Where acreage blocks adjoin each other along a bush boundary, a coordinated program across neighbours holds a result that individual efforts will not.
What a program looks like
Site assessment, then thermal mapping to locate and validate what is present, then the control operation itself using ground shooting, trapping and baiting or both, and finally post-operation reporting with GIS-ready outputs and chain-of-custody documentation.
What it costs depends on the property, not the postcode, and the site assessment is what turns it into a firm number. If you are a council, Landcare group or agribusiness, see feral animal control contracts.
FAQ
Southern Highlands questions
Do you cover Southern Highlands?
Yes. We are based in New South Wales and travel to rural and regional properties across the state, including Southern Highlands and the surrounding districts. Get in touch and we will confirm for your specific property.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes. On Point holds a NSW Firearms Licence Category A, B and D as a VPAC accredited contract shooter and business, a Prohibited Weapons Permit for suppressors, relevant national accreditations, and full public liability insurance.
What does it cost?
There is no fixed rate. Price is driven by the property, the access, the species and how many, whether the work runs at night, and what reporting you need. The site assessment is what produces a firm number.
How soon can you look at it?
Get in touch with the property location and what you are seeing, and we will come back to you within one business day to arrange a site assessment.
Feral pest pressure around Southern Highlands?
Tell us about the property and what you're seeing, and we'll arrange a site assessment.