Thought you guys might to have a look at a really nice old bull.

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very impressive indeed!

those buggers are great, challenging to hunt as well. IMO more so than water buff.

What an old monster.

Very impressive . Tell us the story .

Copied and pasted from NE.com

This hunt happened last November. My 11 year old and I were out for a few days hopeing to stumble across some nags and the odd boar. Jesse has been coming with me for a couple of seasons now and this year I bought him a Baikal break action single shot in .308. I loaded up some nice mild loads using 125 gn projectiles and he has done well so far. I was using my recently aquired Krieghoff 9.3x74R which I have fallen in love with. Extremely well finished, a beautiful piece of walnut & I find the combi cocker excellent for my style of hunting up here. I can carry her on the quad with loaded chambers when looking for brumbies - no messing about - and when I'm walking its the same.

Anyway we were on our way back to camp to pack up when we spotted this old fella off in the distance. There are heaps of scrubbers around here but this old boy was easily the most impressive I've seen in 20 years. Jesse stayed with the bike and 10 mins later I had got into position for a nice broadside shot. The breeze shifted slightly and he got a whiff of me and swung around to face me at about 100m. I was using my load of 58 gn of RL 15 and a Woodleigh soft point. The shot offered was a frontal chest shot and he did the usual thing and hunched up a bit then ran off with the old stiff front leg thing happening. He pulled up about 50m later and was pretty ill. Gave him the other barrel broadside on the point of the shoulder and he just collapsed.

Had to ride back to camp to get the axe for the messy horn removal job. The winch on my bike came in handy here! He will make a great trophy when cleaned up. I love hunting these old bulls. Jesse can't wait until he's big enough to have a shot out of the 9.3

Cheers.

GG

Mate he is a ripper Thanks for putting up the pics and story. Have you got any more pics of other hunts you could put up??
Cheers

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Mate got heaps of photos - what would you like to see? Anything in particular?

GG

All of your photos please

GG375
Some more pics of scrubbers would be great but anything else would be good too, always good to see some pics

Cheers

Thats impressive, not only do you buggers beat us at cricket but it seems like you've got some fair dinkum shooting in OZ as well. Good on yer sports, great photos. From an admiring pommie b_____d!

You say you put the axe to it??? To cut skull , after it was caped, I suspect? You saved the cape right!? I hope? Tell me you did? And if you did please post the finished trophy please.???

And would it be correct form to shoot one of them bulls with a 9.3x62?

No - didn't take the cape - wasn't set up for it. In this climate you need to be prepared with an esky, ice etc otherwise all you would end up with is a cape of leather - hair slip would be an issue. Already have a shoulder mounted bull on the wall and no more room. Can always get a cape in the future if needed.

GG

No cape.Ah well. Beautiful beast, however.