Gentlemen,

I am asking this in relation to the rumor that Craig Boddington had shot his in a national park.

Some of the PMs and emails I got seem to give the impression that these animals live in a national park.

Any relevant information would be appreciate, here, by PM or email.

Matt Graham will know,he may be away guiding right now.

Maybe some Outfitters are licenced to hunt in the National Park in N.T

Not all of them mate. Most of the hunting is done on Aboriginal land (from what I know). To hunt there you need permission from the traditional owners. To get that permission, guides most likely enter into a business arrangement with whatever council controls the area. I do believe there are some small private herds scattered around the top end. Matt will correct me if I'm wrong.
The thing is that the place is so isolated that as with the buff supposedly shot in a NP (in the CB thread in the African forum) If he did shoot it in a NP he probably wouldn't even know. For instance I was hunting on private property once that bordered Kakadu. Kakadu was just across a small creek! If you didn't know where the borders were in the heat of the chase you could quite innocently end up in a NP.

G'Day Fella's,

Saeed, as Top Predator stated, Mat Graham would probably be one of the better Australian hunting guides, for any species located in the Northern Territory!
Yes, the Coburg Peninsula where the Banteng Cattle are located, is on Aboriginal land and hunting guides negotiate access to this land and these animals, with these indigenous land owners!
A couple of my local mates have hunted Banteng in this location, and say they are not to be under estimated as they can be exceedingly dangerous!

Hope that helps

Doh!
Homer

Thank you gentlemen.

Craig Boddington has posted on the African Hunting Forum stating that5 he did NOT shoot a banteng.

So that paret is cleared.

But I still would like to know about banteng hunting in Australia.

All of Coburg Peninsula is within Garig Gunak Barlu National Park , which includes some nearby islands.
It is the location of the world's largest herd of pure-strain banteng.

http://www.parksandwildlife.nt...iggunak#.UaBQx5V_OS0 ...

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/nt.../201212/s3653109.htm ...

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/nt.../201212/s3653849.htm ...


There are also oportunities to hunt Banteng on some private land[managed herds sourced from the peninsular]
and on native title Arnhem Land.

AFAIK Matt Graham has guiding access via a hunting lodge that does have permits to conduct guided hunts in the NP on the Coburg Peninsula. All above board.

CB or anyone else could legally have hunted Banteng in a NP on Coburg, as long as he was with a guide affiliated with that lodge. As well as that there are herds on Traditional Owners land... and they may have guided arrangements also.

Matt will know the full story, and be able to correct me if I am wrong.

Need traditional owner's permission and park permits. Matt has a contract with one of the traditional owners providing him access.
Apparently they can be grumpy although we never experienced any indications of that tendency on my hunt. A good thing really as we tracked a wounded bull into dense bush with visibility down to about ten feet. Found out later that the only rifle we were carrying at the time (Browning BPR) had failed to feed a round into the chamber when last cycled.
There are also some banteng outside the park at Murgenella and on a well known game ranch in the Territory.

Karl Goodhand has the prime Banteng area adjoining the NP and produces the goods. Had a most enjoyable hunt with Karl last year (73+ Banteng) at his camp on the beach. Karl's at DSC and SCI, but not on AR.. Worth a google.

Yes, the Coburg peninsula where the Banteng were all originally located is a nat. park but hunting was allowed legally through outfitters that had permission to do so. There was a fence that kept the banteng on the peninsula but it fell into disrepair so the banteng are now on the mainland so to speak of "The Arnhem Land" which is all aboriginal reserve. Mary River Station located more inland away from the coburg banteng has a large free ranging herd of banteng surveyed to be around 800 head I believe.

Reading through the CB threads my appetite to travel around the world and to deal with the particularities of where Banteng hunting is legal or not has decreased massively.

Saeed,

Most of the Bantang are indeed found within the Coburg National Park which with the traditional owners they allocate a quota of Bantang (think its about 40 beasts?).
However, the Bantang can be found south of the Fence that separates the Coburg Peninsula-Garig Gunak Barlu National Park from the mainland. These numbers can be hunted via the outfitters that control these adjacent blocks .
These adjacent blocks are within the water shed of the Merganela river.
Anyway, thats how I see it.

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Originally posted by jaegerfrank:
Reading through the CB threads my appetite to travel around the world and to deal with the particularities of where Banteng hunting is legal or not has decreased massively.

Agreed, but let's not bring that into this part of the forum, pleeaaasseeee.