Some pics from my last hunt. Cape York October 2003.
4 scrub bulls and a few brumbies over 4 hunting days. Good test for the new rifle. I'm now a confirmed fan of the 9.3x62!







That last one was a bit interesting. Found the bugger feeding out in the swamp. Nothing for it but to get in there after him. I did have visions of snakes in the water and me with my boots off. In the end didn't even get leeched.

Very Nice mate, are you getting any mounted?

Didn't have a saw with me and didn't take any horns home.
Actually I'm a bit transient these last few years. Guess you know something about that yourself. Last thing I need are trophies to have to ship around from place to place. Photos are great for now.

-Stu

Great stuff, Stu.
Friend of mine just bought a full custom job in this chambering, but only had time for one hunt with it before posting out of the Territory. Nailed a nice boar, his best for the NT, day before he left (literally)!!

Any bullet recoveries...?

Nice Indiana Jones hat Stu,best keep it on sunstroke and all that.

Spill ya guts on the rifle ,looks rather nice.

Well done stu !!

tell us more about the rifle if you could, it looks good !!

Without the hat on ya look like Ricky Ponting (Cap of oz cricket team)

I was using Norma factory 286(?) gr Plastic Tips. Recovered two bullets from the off-side hide. Didn't go digging around for anything burried, and there were a couple of pass-throughs as well. I'll see if I can borrow a d-camera to take pics of the recoveries. I'm working off memory here but one was about 180 gr and the other about 220 recovered weight.

Two of the four bulls went down with one shot each. I walked up and put finishers into both, but the the first shots were killing shots. One of the other bulls I ended up shooting 7 times before the life left him. I know one shot busted his shoulder but don't know how far it penetrated after that, one shot was bad and grazed his side, and one I tried to use a finishing neck shot but missed the spine. That still left at least 4 good solid shots through the heart/lung area. The forth bull took more than a couple of good hits before he went down as well. Gave me at bit more respect for these bulls and I'm not sure I'd use that ammo again except for pigs. Hard to say really but I've got myself a supply of brass and Woodleighs to try out on the next hunts.

PC,

The rifle is by de Vries and Waghorn. There some more details and pics on my thread in gunsmithing.

http://www.accuratereloading.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=540418&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=21&fpart=1#Post541114

Some nice bulls there Stu.

Looks like a fun time was had.

Hi,
Nice bulls mate, do you cut out the fillets or are even they too tough?
Do different stations have different horn size depending on what breed of stock the scrub bulls emerge from? Fromwhat I understand all scrub bulls were born from a tame cow, but were missed in a roundup and thus not castrated. How come you never hear of this happening to cows?
BTW, which would you consider more dangerous of the 3, scrub bull, banteng or water buffalo??

I have a guiding mate (Tony) that rate scrub bulls as tougher than Buff. But I suppose any animal that size would be a tough critter.

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How come you never hear of this happening to cows?

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Because nobody hunts cows! I hunt on a place with wild cattle, there is no such thing as a tame cow on the big stations, they are all pretty wild, the main breed up this way is Brahman and those buggers can get nastie. I was helping a bloke yard his cattle (these were quite cattle) and a big horned cow put me over the yards Everyone had a good laugh at that one. One station near my place is 1 million square acres. They only use 3 40,000 acre paddocks. Anything that escapes from those paddocks is written off as it's to expensive to muster them.