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07 September 2020, 03:01
Bakes
Fathers Day weekend hunt report
Well we (Eldest son, his girlfriend and I) had a great week end. Spotted a BIG boar but he gave us the slip. Spotted a group of eater pigs (3/4 grown) but THEY gave us the slip in the steep country. Then as we fell/slid/toppled down a gully I saw a nice boar sound asleep. Kurt came up and put one in its head! Nice pig for his first ever large animal.




Our legs and ankles were cooked after that hunt but the next morning we went to a gully system where I missed the chital doe that morning. Saw nothing but we decided to look around a rocky out crop and immediately I saw an old red deer. I lasered it at 213 meters and was setting up for a shot when the kids (who couldn't see the red, pointed out a chital. Good old range finder said 153 (I love this thing Big Grin) and I took the shot at the chital. Hit the point of the shoulder and exited the ribs so very little meat damage. It was a very steep pack out and my boy was puffing like a bastard rotflmo.
Had a bloody great weekend.






The cut up.

I caped it out so I can use it on an upcoming taxidermy course.


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07 September 2020, 05:30
shankspony
Nice one! Some great looking country there.
07 September 2020, 06:03
Bakes
Short sharp little slopes Shanks. Lots of loose little ankle breaker rocks.


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07 September 2020, 10:45
muzza
Steep little gullies , rolly rocks that want to break your ankle , spikey grass that gets in your socks , and every biting insect known to man. I love hunting in Qld ;-)


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07 September 2020, 11:04
Bakes
rotflmo about sums it up Muzza


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08 September 2020, 08:40
georgeld
Great write up Tony.
Real nice to see the country side
for a change. Not often we get to see
that.

Good eats too, thanks for sharing.

George


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11 September 2020, 14:19
gryphon1
Thats good you got to connect.

Any Josephs seen Bakesy?



Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002
11 September 2020, 15:35
Bakes
Not seen, did hear one at the top of the escarpment


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11 September 2020, 23:25
shankspony
What the hell is a Joseph?
12 September 2020, 01:18
gryphon1
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Shanks remember when you donned my gumboots and a shovel was handed to you and we went down to my letterbox to deal with the Eastern Brown Snake that Grant saw?

That was a Joseph IE Joseph Blake,rhymes with? Snake!
Colloquially known as Joe Blakes here.



Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002
12 September 2020, 11:18
shankspony
Ahh got you. I would just like to point out though, that you donned the gumboots, I was standing in the grass in my hunting boots with that shovel and thinking, this is a dumb idea, But Gryph knows what hes doing.... Until you said, this is probably not a good idea.
12 September 2020, 11:38
gryphon1
What they look like.





Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002
13 September 2020, 14:37
Karl
quote:
Originally posted by Bakes:
Well we (Eldest son, his girlfriend and I) had a great week end. Spotted a BIG boar but he gave us the slip. Spotted a group of eater pigs (3/4 grown) but THEY gave us the slip in the steep country. Then as we fell/slid/toppled down a gully I saw a nice boar sound asleep. Kurt came up and put one in its head! Nice pig for his first ever large animal.




Our legs and ankles were cooked after that hunt but the next morning we went to a gully system where I missed the chital doe that morning. Saw nothing but we decided to look around a rocky out crop and immediately I saw an old red deer. I lasered it at 213 meters and was setting up for a shot when the kids (who couldn't see the red, pointed out a chital. Good old range finder said 153 (I love this thing Big Grin) and I took the shot at the chital. Hit the point of the shoulder and exited the ribs so very little meat damage. It was a very steep pack out and my boy was puffing like a bastard rotflmo.
Had a bloody great weekend.






The cut up.

I caped it out so I can use it on an upcoming taxidermy course.


A lot of older spec cam uniforms there Bakes. Sloping pocket DPCU, first came out in the late 1990's. You raid an old Q-store back in 2008 or something? Big Grin
13 September 2020, 16:32
Bakes
rotflmo No they are actually mine Big Grin


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