On 2 November the men travelled to Campion, where some 50 emus were sighted. As the birds were out of range of the guns, the local settlers tried to herd the emus into an ambush, but the birds split into small groups and ran so that they were difficult to target. Nevertheless, while the first shots from the machine guns was not hurting the emus because they were far away, a second round of gunfire was able to kill "a number" of birds. Later the same day they found a small flock and "perhaps a dozen" birds were killed.