I have left out the stories and photos of Scruffy's animals,as will be better hearing it from him.

It may take a day or two for me to finish this report

It took 4 planes to get to Muckadilla hunting Safaris buffalo camp in East Arnemland,i boarded the 3rd plane in Darwin for the 1 hour flight to Groote island,where we boarded the 4th plane for the 20 minute flight back to the mainland settlement of Numblwar,where we met our outfitter Glenn Griffin.

Photos from the charter flight to Numblwar.



We unpacked,fired a few rounds to check scopes and get a feel for the rifles,we were to use for our trip,one was my Sako 375 and the other Glenn's CZ 375.

Later that afternoon we went out to check if the local pigs had taken an interest in two buffalo shot earlier in the week,no joy on the pigs,but the Dingo's had been getting stuck in.
We saw our first buffalo on the way back to camp that night.



We were driving to the floodplains,when i saw a big black thing running away,about 200 yards out,"there's a buffalo stop" no its a "fuckin big pig" i jumped out of the truck chambered a round,then remembered i had one soft point and three solids in the mag,so i replaced one solid with a soft point and headed after the pig,running zig zag between between trees,as the pig walked straight away from me.

I got within 30 odd yards of the pig,but with no chance of a broadside shot i stopped,using a tree as a rest,i flicked off the safety catch and just followed the pig with scope,then he turned left which gave me a great broadside shot,i let rip with the 375,pig dropped i reloaded to see the pig tring to get to his feet,so i hit him again and he went down for keeps.
I looked back to see if somone had got the shot on video,to my surprise the guys were 400 odd yards back,i had covered alot of ground stalking this pig.
Three of us tried to pull the pig into the air with a rope for photos but we could only get his back legs off the the ground,so Glenn brought the truck over.

I took the lower jaw from the boar,tusks are nothing flash.



We saw a bull just on the edge of the floodplains,i did not plan to shoot a bull,as i was interested in shooting 3-5 cows to get more idea of how how the rilfe/bullet/me combo would work.
I decided to have a go at this bull,i lead the stalk into where the bull had been,we met up with him about half there,i could only see his head and ass,not good.His shoulder was hidden behind a small tree,he was not to stay standing there for long at 20 yards,so i aimed where i thought the spine was and fired,i was wrong as the bull didn't drop,i reloaded and started running him,i stopped fired just has he ran into the thick shit,he didn't drop,so i kept running and then got one more quick shot into his back end which i hoped would break hip or spine no joy,i ran into a clearing to find him down and facing me about 15 yards,he saw me and tried to get to his feet which was not going to happen if i had my way,i fired my last shot into his neck, he went down,i grabbed one round from my pocket and chambered it and fired it into his neck,he was dead,i started refilling the mag,as Glenn arrived,followed by Richard and Maraget with video camera.
My Bull

One of my follow shots connected with its target

This shot missed the hip,but traveled all the way to the chest.

Great pictures !! Please more pictures and stories...

Have you seen many buaffalo ??
Does Richard shot a pig? he always want one..
More stories please
L

Welcome back top predator. Looks like the .375 did its job. We are ready for more of the report and pics.

Good on ya James! Well done. So from the sounds of it, no video?

Nice aerial photos of the Gulf.

Nice bulls too.

Looks like you had a fun trip.

Frank we got heaps of video,ill send you a copy.

Richard A.K.A Scruffy has covered the next few days of the hunt,he shot his trophy buffalo and we were all following it up and a big boar ran out,i hit it with a my first which was to far back,he went down,i put two more into him,just to make sure he was not going to get back up and carried on,to where Richard and Glenn had found the bull down.

We shot some donkeys,a station on the way back to Darwin.They really are not easy to kill,300gr bullets in the 375 were too hard for the donkeys,270-7mm would be a better choice.


I'm not sure if i would hunt with Muckadilla Safaris again,the food really was crap and not enough of it.

Must have been lucky when I hunted with Muckadilla last year . The food was provided by the owner of the station we hunted and was really good .

James

Congratulations seems like you had a good time even if the food was muck.

Cheers
/JOHAN