Hey guys I thought I would check out what there is to hunt in Australia. My parents are moving there for 3 years starting in June and I will probably fly over from Canada for a visit or 2 and might be interested in some hunting. A buddy of mine wants to go as well. He heard you can do some real fun cull hunting with camels and donkeys and stuff. I thought he was pulling my leg and maybe he is but I thought I would see what you guys have over there for something fun to hunt. I would love the buffalo thing but too much money I think.

Pulling your leg about camels?

Read this bit of trivia.
Where are your parents going to live?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl...amels-animal-welfare

Australia has huge range of wildlife to hunt,Water Buffalo is a must do.

Nube, here's a quick list

Rabbits
Hare
quail (in some states)
Duck (in those states that have a season)
Magpie geese/duck (in the NT)
Fox
feral cats
dingo/feral dogs
Feral goats
Pigs
Wild cattle
Camel
Water Buffalo
Banteng ($$$)
Six deer species (Sambar/red/Rusa/Fallow/Chital/Hog)
Oh and Horses and donkeys

Access to hunting areas can be a problem but there are guides available for most things.

What about Horses and Donkeys

My parents will be in Perth ofr the 3 years. What do you guys sugest for the most fun and on the cheap end?
I have looked at buff hunts and would love to do it but i don't want to spend 5 or 8 grand to do it right now. i want to get my buff and leopard in Africa first.
Goats might be some fun!!!
Chamois and tar are also a must in New zealand and might as well take a flight there as well but i imagine they are priceya s well.

Well you picked the worst state for even getting a gun licence..dont hold your breath.

WA is almost a million square miles and there arent too many places where you can get a start for hunting.

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Originally posted by Bakes:

Access to hunting areas can be a problem but there are guides available for most things.

Do you needa guide or is unguided hunting possible? Most of the animals are varmints in australia, so i wonder why you need a guide. Those camelhunts sound interesting. Hunt Sambardeer is very high on my list of things i want to do ;-)

Sambar in Victoria in my home state are for anyone with $43 and a firearm licence. As many as you want of any sex age size or shape...err they arent that easy though.

Millions of acres of public land to choose from has sambar on it.

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Originally posted by gryphon1:
Pulling your leg about camels?

Read this bit of trivia.
Where are your parents going to live?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl...amels-animal-welfare

I'm curious, what was the end of the story?

Did the government blast them???

Yep, just over 3600 of them.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...09/12/17/2774441.htm

There's been a curious recent side effect though; some folk overseas seem to have got the idea that Oz is giving away free camels!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...10/03/15/2845644.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/ne.../201003/s2846367.htm

So Gryphon 1 you are saying I can not get a license to hunt? I don't plan on living there myself. I am planning on a visit to my parents who will live there and I may as well call an outfitter and bring my gun when I do. I am just trying to figure out what to hunt. I would love to hunt a crocadile or buffalo but I assume the costs will be high? Goats, camels, and donkey could be interesting and fun as well. I am just trying to get a few ideas going in my head just in case I decide to do it.

There is little to no chance of you hunting in WA,the rest of Australia is no problem.

Water Buffalo are around $5000US

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Originally posted by TOP_PREDATOR:
There is little to no chance of you hunting in WA,the rest of Australia is no problem.

Water Buffalo are around $5000US

Where can you buy a decent buff hunt for $5000??

I didn't say anything about it being "decent" Matt

Banteng is a good hunt, and the ferals are a lot of fun, goats and pigs. I hunted feral camels a while back and really enjoyed it.

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Originally posted by Gadge:
Yep, just over 3600 of them.

I bet you got a lot more left, when I was hunting them, we saw a bunch of them!

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Originally posted by Matt Graham:

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Originally posted by TOP_PREDATOR:
There is little to no chance of you hunting in WA,the rest of Australia is no problem.

Water Buffalo are around $5000US

Where can you buy a decent buff hunt for $5000??

Matt what does Hunt Australia charge for a "decent buff",say an ordinary old five day hunt with a few pigs thrown in...and a 90-100 class bull?

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Originally posted by gryphon1:
Matt what does Hunt Australia charge for a "decent buff",say an ordinary old five day hunt with a few pigs thrown in...and a 90-100 class bull?

For a good area in Arnhem Land and good conditions you will pay between $6500 and $9000 pp for a package deal but you wont be hunting for a 90-100 bull you will be huting for the biggest one you can find in 5 days. That is what you expect in unfenced areas - no difference between biggest or smallest animals.

You can get a seat for $6500 if you join a group hunt or $9000 if it is all just for 1 person. So for a 1x1 you may well have the camp and concession area to yourself for the time or maybe one or two other hunters with another guide.

If you did a ranch hunt - where you would actually be expecting to shoot a 90-100 bull (although still no price difference) - you would pay about $1500 less than the figure above... So there you go - you could get a buff hunt for $5000 but you would be on a group on a shitty area!! We do hunt some of those areas too but we are there for different reasons.

You all forgot to mention that we have the world's most venomous snakes too.

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Originally posted by Ozzie:
You all forgot to mention that we have the world's most venomous snakes too.

Yeah but we have 'em trained pretty well... they (and the crocodiles) only bite the tourists we dont like!!

Matt, when I hunt with you will I be a "tourist?"

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Originally posted by Gayne C. Young:
Matt, when I hunt with you will I be a "tourist?"

Sorry - been away. Well you WILL be a tourist ...right???

There is antivenene for the snakes and first aid protocols that you can look up and learn about prior to coming downunder.
If you are concerned about snake bite

Here is one for the blokes who do not want to fly to Africa.
Matt there might be a marketing opportunity with this story.

ALYSSA BETTS

November 16th, 2009
The pygmy hippo that was accidentally shot. Picture: KATRINA BRIDGEFORD

The pygmy hippo that was accidentally shot. Picture: KATRINA BRIDGEFORD

A PYGMY hippopotamus has been shot dead during a pig hunting expedition in the Territory.

The hippo is normally native to the swamps of west Africa, in particular Liberia.

Instead, this one - estimated to be about 250kg - was shot while roaming the bush of the Douglas Daly, 200km south of Darwin.

This is about 16,000km away from Liberia.

It is believed the female hippo is an old escapee from Tipperary Station, from when it used to be an exotic animal reserve.

This means it has been poking about the Douglas Daly for the past five years.

Pictures: Hunting season

Nico Courtney, 27, was out spotlighting for pigs with his mate Rusty on a station in the Douglas Daly district on Saturday night.

"It was about 1am and running away from us - from the tail end it just looked like a big pig," the station worker said.

"We got out, had a look at it, and thought 'that's not a pig, it's a hippo'.

"Then we thought 'you don't get hippos in Australia'."

The pair thought it might be a baby hippo - and then naturally started wondering, as they stood in the middle of dark scrub, "where the hell" its mum and dad might be.

Mr Courtney said he rang a few mates to tell them what happened.

"They told me to go to bed," he said. "So I thought I'd better call the boss, and he said 'no it couldn't be'."

They both decided to get some shuteye and "reassess the situation in the morning".

But it was still a hippo come daylight.

Mr Courtney's boss, Gordon Coward, reckons the hoofer is from Tipperary Station.

"I heard all sorts of funny stories of break outs and people kept saying 'look out for giraffes in the paddock', but I didn't think much of them."

Tipperary Station - which is about 50km from Douglas Daly - was turned into an exotic wildlife sanctuary by its former owner, millionaire Warren Anderson.

Mr Anderson eventually began trying to sell the animals - which included rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, giraffes, zebras and deer - back in 2003 after selling his interest in the station.

But some of the planned transfers were caught up in a legal wrangle between the Territory Government and Mr Anderson.

The hippo's carcass is now being kept in a cold room at the Douglas Daly Research Farm.
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