Hi All

As some of may have heard, there is a new banteng concession area starting-up this year - up on the Cobourg Peninsula - Gurig Ganak Barlu National Park in the Northern Territory. The concessionaire is also the owner of a very, very nice resort in the same area – so in the short term they will be using the resort as the hunting base and then plan to move to a combination of the resort and fly camp in the future. We, Hunt Australia, are helping the concessionaire with the marketing and logistics.

Aside from the hunting there are plenty of activities you can do out of the resort – sightseeing and awesome saltwater sport-fishing tours. The resort is very amenable with excellent air-conditioned chalets, restaurant, bar and swimming pool.

Of late the resort manager has been spotting nice banteng bulls right on the edge of the new hunting area, near the resort – he sent me this photo just a couple weeks ago. Since this general area has been largely unhunted for the last ten years – I feel that some big bulls are going to be taken, when they start hunting in May.

Love the wet-season shrubbery – looks a lot different to the dry and possibly charred landscape in August!!

Anyhow – if anyone is interested in the hunting and visiting the resort – just let me know.

Cheers for now
Matt Graham

Top fishing spot that's for sure and the hunting should be as good!
Do you offer Buffalo, boar and Oxen along with the Bantang in this area?

The voices tell me "Yes"!

Matt, I think you need another 2x1 hunt, this time on your own concession.

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Originally posted by NitroX:
The voices tell me "Yes"!

Matt, I think you need another 2x1 hunt, this time on your own concession.

Hell yes!! Bearing in mind though that this is not my concession...

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Originally posted by ozhunter:
Top fishing spot that's for sure and the hunting should be as good!
Do you offer Buffalo, boar and Oxen along with the Bantang in this area?

There is the option to take buffalo and boar as secondary trophies in that area but I certainly would not be selling a dedicated buffalo hunt there. So too with the pigs - there is an option to just hunt pigs there in the future - but I dont think that is going to happen this year or at least until a bush camp is built so that more of the concession can be accessed. Really just selling banteng hunts for now - and fishing tours.

Matt how are the Sambar up there?? were they ever in good numbers?

argh... I was waiting for that question!! I surely do not want to encourage people to book sambar hunts alone - they are a trophy of good fortune only!

There has never been a big population anywhere on the peninsular - that I am aware of. Especially sambar, being sambar... it's not like you are going to see heaps anyhow. That said this concession is probably best placed to find a few... and some have been sighted recently.. This concession is probably the most recognised part of the Park where sambar have been found and hunted. I gather that from talking to many different guides spanning many, many years.

Are the banteng "pure" or have they been crossed with wild cattle in the past?

They have crossed with wild cattle on the outskirts of their range but thanks to BTEC (pushing both herds back) that was never allowed to develop into a problem. The banteng on Cobourg have the same genotype as the wild banteng of south-east Asia.