Has anyone got any trips planned?? Summer is just about over I'm off on sunday for a few days,will post some photos when i get back.

im off to Kampchatka in April for browm bear and then im getting stuck into the Sambar when i get back
regards daniel

I'll be making a trip home at Easter and will be trying to hit the sambar again. Late this year it may be either Sweden for driven moose or Poland for driven pigs.

Daniel - good luck with the bears. Is your 30-06 making the trip or have you got something else lined up?

- stu

I'm off on Monday to the U.K. and Scotland for a bit of deer hunting/sight seeing, may also get the barrel warm in France but that's not a definite yet. Then back to good old Sambar country in April..Les

Couple of fallow trips lined up for later , plus the chance to hunt in Victoria , not sure if I can wangle that one with her that holds the purse strings yet...

Plus there is a bull tahr in the Southern Alps with my name on it still...

STU
yes ,the 06 is comming with me as it always does, the only diffrence this time is it will have a new barrel , getting the barrel done next week , so the only decision left is which proj to use....200 nosler or 200tsx
regards daniel

Sambar hunt planned for the Dargo, VIC area on the long weekend in March [11-13th]. Then duck season opens the Saturday after. Woohoo!

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Sambar hunt planned for the Dargo, VIC area on the long weekend in March [11-13th]. Then duck season opens the Saturday after. Woohoo!

Might get a few March flies

I know the j blakes will be about too.

I will be visting the Auckland region together with three friends of mine the first three weeks of August.

We will be staying with relatives of mine and plan to do some hunting at Taupa and at the South Island.

Suggestions from you people over there are very much welcome!

Marcel

Me and a couple of mates will be doing some pig shooting over easter, hopefully we will get a few.

I will be chasing sambar up near Omeo. With a lot of leave up my sleeve I will take a week early July and another week in early September.If I am not working Easter there will be time for a scout around.
Went to Little River on Saturday to check the 30'06 was sighted in.
Mark

Headed up to brisbane in may for a 4 day red hunt.
Hopefully i will bag a nice one.

Heading to Charters Towers in April for Chital. Other than that just a heap of local deer hunting, both sambar and fallow. Along with the usual small game rabbits and foxes.

got a place to hunt hoggies in april, and a big winter coming up for sambar.

Queensland red deer hunt for first week of April (in an excellent area so I have high hopes).

Hopefully a Top End trip for water buffalo again, maybe some pigs too.

Tuskless cow in Zimbabwe.

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Hopefully a Top End trip for water buffalo again, maybe some pigs too.

Tuskless cow in Zimbabwe.

John, when are you planning your trips for? I am also thinking about similar options to try out the new .500 double. I spoke to James Brown about the tuskless/non-trophy elephant options and it sounds good, although his daily rate is a bit high, IMO.

I also spoke to Charlie Stanton and asked about "problem animals" and he is predicting that there could be quite a few this year. So I am keeping my options open at this stage.

I am also looking at possibly going with Muckadilla, late in the season, to sort out some water buffalo, too.

It just all depends upon money and time. In addition to the red deer hunt, I hope to be able to do one of the other 'dreams' and maybe defer the others to next year.

Bob

I am hoping to do a self-guided / arranged hunt in Arnhemland through a contact for water buffalo if it works out. Not sure which month as it is all up in the air, maybe before September - possibly June?

The beginning of September was when I was aiming for the tuskless cow elephant hunt. Maybe end of August. Otherwise it will be in 2007 at a similar time.

Goodooga pig hunt in May. I expect it to be as dry as a witches' tit, however........

Well this weekend I'm cleaning the bathrooms, washing clothes and have to put up an outdoor "cat room" for the moggies. Out for dinner tomorrow night with the missus. Not sure how she managed to see through me, but I've gotten leave for a Sambar hunt next weekend
Cheers...
Con

Geez some of you fellas are keen at the wrong time of the year for sambar,just about all the stags wont be hard headed until April..wait a cupla months and you will find the bush far nicer to hunt in (and easier)

Hinds ... meat ... mmmm. My hunt is a "swap" with a kid's Dad from school, my Sambar spot for his Fallow spot, and he has a big coolroom
Cheers...
Con

Tracks, who are you hunting with in the UK? Just booked 7 days on the south island for Thar, Chamois, Boar, Goat and Sheep. I also hope to take a turkey I understand they are not the challenge the Easter Turkey provide here. Just looking forward to a totally new experience.

Turkeys are no problem to get down here they are a pest,my record is 11 with 5 shots,just herd them on the ATV and emtpy the mag at them Who are you hunting with??

Head off to Spain tomorrow to hunt Ibex. Will see if I can post a couple of pic's if I get lucky.
Muzza, I've still got an old crook Bull Tahr tied up behind the hill here, should be easy enough for an old bugger like you.

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Turkeys are no problem to get down here they are a pest,my record is 11 with 5 shots,just herd them on the ATV and emtpy the mag at them Who are you hunting with??

So thats turkey hunting eh?
Would it still be hunting if we did much the same with game animals.

In the U.S they use decoys and call them in,that is hunting.But down they are just pests,that are shot on sight.

haha i was having a dig at OZ Kiwi relationships stuff in mind..

well my sambar season has started already mainly because the freezer needs filling went out wednesday and put up 2 and 4 more after dark walking out after i shattered a free-wheeling hub and had to walk for 4 hours(all uphill) to get phone service.
Spent today setting up duck hides for opening saw 3-400 ducks mainly teal and blackies should be a quick hunt once they start flying.
the fallow should be in hard antler too so trying to arrange a hunt for them this weekend. and a trip to mallacoota to chase kingfish offshore the following week. plus the usual scouting for hog deer, reloading, spotlighting for pests and trying to knock over a few sambar to fill freezers and unfortunatly i have to fit some work in betwwen all that

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Muzza, I've still got an old crook Bull Tahr tied up behind the hill here, should be easy enough for an old bugger like you.

Tim , I suspect the tahr may not be the only crook in your part of the country.....may not be this winter but you will find me one in the not-too-distant-future...

We have a large goat cull operation in a couple of weeks - taking Yank-Import Cutman along with us to introduce him to the joys of wholesale slaughter. Hope to post photos of the event.

Some good prospects for fallow in the Taranaki hinterland too .

I'm leaving Texas tonight for a Red Stag and Fallow Deer hunt near Christchurch.

I can't wait.

Top - I am hunting with Gerald Telford out of Wanaka. I fly in on the 3rd of June and out on the 11th. Since turkey calls are not bulky I plan on bring a couple and give calling a try.

Die Ou Jagter, I'm going hunting with a mate in UK and Scotland no cost, I'm in France at the present time and will be back in the UK tomorrow for a hunt over the next 2 weeks,looking forward to hunt the Red in Scotland, bloody snowing at the moment but who cares,,,Les

tracks, good hunting. I hunted my stag in the northern highlands just a wee bit north of Inverness. The hill stag is a great trophy, not hugh like estate beast nor those of NZ but a great open hunt. I also got a kick out of hunting the water deer.

Con how did your weekend go . See anything ?
Mark

Leaving for Australia june 3rd. for a buffalo hunt with Graham Williams, then to Alaska in september to bear hunt. Thats it for me in 2006.

mark smith,
Sure did! On Friday I took a mate and his 14yo son to my favourite spot, for taking a meat animal. The bush is dry, but not unreasonably so. It's like hunting at an aerodrome though ... bzzzzz ... lots of flies about. I reckoned we'd have a sambar on the ground by 8AM Saturday morning, first shot was at 8:15am The lad managed to take his first "stag" a spiker with a 270Win and was over the moon. He reckoned he wasn't too excited, but we couldn't shut him up for the 3 hours it took us to drag him out. Other than the spiker taken, we saw another 4 hinds and an 18"-20" stag in hard velvet.
Cheers...
Con

That 14 yr old has a good reason to be over the moon for sure mate,good on the kid too,had he shot a hind before? Or his first stag was his first deer?

How many maggots did you end up with Con?Nothing like our bush for some jumbo flies eh!

Drake river South Westland New Zealand, 2 - 8th of April, it's a tributary of the Waiatoto.

Great news Con. Congratulations to your son. Hearing this and seeing the sambar in the new Wild Deer & Hunting Adventures has me fired up for Easter. Hopefully it will be a lot cooler by then , I don't like hot weather.
Mark