Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) verbally aggressive.

1890		Bird o’ Freedom 1 Jan. 6/5: He would think that we were trying to belittle him, and we should have a shooting scrape on our hands in less than an hour from the time the paper made its appearance.
1898		John Fox Jr ‘The Message in the Sand’ (in Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories ) n.p.: One of ’em is the shootin’es’ man on this crick, I reckon, ’cept one; an’, stranger, that’s t’other.
1926		(con. 1860s) F.J. Wilstach Wild Bill Hickok 121: That made Bill shooting mad [...] he got up and looked Dave in the eye and said: ‘I don’t want to make a row in this house.’.
1953		K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 170: This peter is little enough and stinking enough without you. Now shut up, you shooting big bastard.