Notfor 2 months ,but I am going in a few days time. I will be going to a place a few hours drive from Cairns. It doesnt have huge pig numbers but has a good place by a water hole for camping and catching small fish. I will be taking out the missus and kid as well as a workmate who hasnt been pig hunting for 20 years but is keen to have a crack again. If I get 2 or 3 pigs a day I will be happy ,maybe a dingo or two as well.

Nope!I've just moved house so I've been doing the stay at home unpack/tidy up thing. Good news is the wife and the fabulous Baker Boys are off to the out-laws place for a few weeks so I'll be hunting and fishing to my hearts content! Already planning a trip to Darwin after some mud crabs!! Then south to chase pigs, then east to chase .......


Can you tell I'm excited!

Youre hard to please! I'veput up pages of stuff.

Actually heading back to the Territory in about 10 days time!

Went pig hunting on Monday. No luck. Plenty of pigs about, but also a foot of snow over everything. Dogs just weren't interested.

Tahr hunting last week. Shot two Tahr.

For the two weeks before that I was in Samoa. Not much hunting to be had there.

Starting to think about fishing now. 1st October is looming up, and the Trout are beckening.



Can someone teach me how to attach photos to posts.

Tracker click here for an run down on posting photo's.

Well if you call kangaroo culling from a car and rabbit culling from a car as well - hunting then I went 2 weeks ago and I'm going again this weekend. The guy I went with last time took 4's for the 12ga for rabbits, I would normally use 6's so I will take some this week.

What do you guys normally use for rabbits in shot size I mean?

I tried the 350 Barnes X out of the 416 at 2935fps and was a little disapointed at the lack of devistation, was eXpecting good results, oh well will try again this weekend.
The 458 is off at the doctors so no using that. May have to take the 7mm with those 168grn Sierra Match King hunting bullets

I have an invite to go after Bison,Moose and Elk in Canuck's home range but that doesn't start until Sunday morning . Heck,even then it starts with a 14 or so hour drive,and I get to do the driving. derf

Had a wander down the track on the weekend, took a couple of young fellas out for a hunt back-to-back, while the missus did a practice-run for her big walk (Jatbula Trail) in a couple of weeks. One of the young blokes had never shot a buff, so we found him a keeper to open the ledger. No world-beater, but nice horns with plenty of character. They will look good on the wall down south.



I managed a running shot on a good boar on the Saturday. I was out wide checking out a couple of small thickets, and jumped him from his bed under one of them. Initially he headed straight towards the other blokes, but did a U-turn round the clump and came back past me heading for the hills. The Jeffery .400 flattened him with a pleasing head-shot.





Bagged a ripper boar on the second day, but unfortunately I left the digital camera with my other pack, and the only photos are in the young bloke's print-camera. He's just gone bush for another week, then heads back down south! Might be a while before I see them. I'll post the circumstances when the photos come to hand.

Ain't a hunting story yet, but the young nephew came round today to ask if he could borrow a rifle to go shooting pigs & rabbits for 10 days.
Couldn't make up his mind so he is loaded up with a Brno 22RF, 218 Mashburn Bee, 243 Ruger No.1, 6.5x55, 270 Ackley Improved, 308 Winchester and the 340 Wetherby. His own rifle is a Win94 in 44 Mag.
I'll be interested to hear the tall tales when he returns Sunday week!

Thanks for the link Muzza, after a bit of f*#$ing around I got it to work.
They are in my first post.

Milosmate

NitroX:
Just the horns and skull-cap for this one, we'll save all the hard work of caping-out for that 100-pointer!

Muzza

I am truly sorry that the bloke on the Misc forum hales from England - it might just ruin your image of us poms!!

Keep up the good work.

Ian

Or even worse ,he prefers boys to girls..... Maybe the Aussies could introduce him to sheep , although he probably already knows a Welshman or two.

Back to the loading bench...

On the other hand, the little goof may have wog blood in him! derf

NitroX and Ian- I have to admit the twat got a little monotonous after a while, but I thought my quip about the branch he manages was a minor stroke of brilliance , if I do say so myself - and I do .

Most of the people in general on the Forums are good blokes and blokesses , just some of them have a gender determination issue . Poms are no different to anyone else.

I agree with NitroX - the dork is probably 14 and just discovered self abuse as a hobby. If he was as old as Far Canel I think we should all be worried...

Christ ,I dont believe it. Im all set to go hunting tomorrow ,but my usual hunting partner has pulled out due to buying a new place at the moment. All the other usuals ,cant get time off work. I dont usualy like heading off by myself for a few days. Will anyone happen to be in Cairns area tomorrow and looking for a few days in the bush? Makes it hard when I only work 2 weeks a month and all my hunting mates work regular 5-6 day weeks. Might have to settle for an F class prize shoot in Atherton.

How did we get here from "Anyone Been Hunting Lately?"

Muzza, I thought you said "all this other stuff just doesnt cut the mustard......"