Welcome to Widji Bandi
Widji Bandi Sports Association of Western Australia (Inc.)
WA's home of long range rifle shooting
WA's home of long range rifle shooting
In native Australian aboriginal vocabularly, Widji Bandi means - a Gun, literally an emu shank or leg.
Indigenous Australians first referred to rifles as an emu leg due to the checkering in a rifle stock resembling, in its carving, the rough grain of the skin of an emu leg.
Indigenous Australians first referred to rifles as an emu leg due to the checkering in a rifle stock resembling, in its carving, the rough grain of the skin of an emu leg.
SOURCE: Diary of Ten Years Evenful Life of An Early Settler in Western Australia and the Discriptive Vocabularly of the Language of the Aborigines, by George Fletchjer Moore, 1842.
