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Heres a run thru of a good week in the landsborough river. Bubble creek 4th period of the Tahr ballot. in a day late and two extra days as weather interrupted flying. All got Tahr bulls varying in size. Heres a pictorial with descriptions on how things went. Cheers Mick James, Watto and Nat loading gea at kaangua hanger 500's lifting of to ballot blocks Clearing centre of pic landing site Bubble creek James leaving MIA tent set up Watto checking out the MIA and stove Monkey scrub bash up , camp centre of pic tahr whistle and a few break out of the monkey scrub, 2 shots had the meat supply sorted. Stoked Kimbe ascent 270WSM removing meat, super eating. 200m further on Chris says Tahr bull above us, Keep moving for a shot, your out of sight. Chris ranged him at 210m. Pack down over some rocks , rest and aimed for a low chest shot up into him. Relaxed and squeezed of the shot. At the impact the bull did a superman dive of the knoll he was on and fell 40m. Bounced a couple of times and out of sight. quickly discussed the shot and confident of a bull on the ground. Covered the steep boulder field and started looking for the bull. 40m away the bull stands up and hobble s forward, both shoulders this time dropped him and he slipped down the steep face out of sight. Didn't come out thru the rocks so new I had him. Few yeah has and fist pumps! Too soon , we couldn't find him. Picked up blood and followed the trail to a hole in the grounded a Tahr bull 2.5-3m down the hole. I couldn't believe it. The hole some muscle and dubious safety practices got the bull out "F&*5k yeah" stoked not massive but hard earnt and appreciated Travelled back down thru the monkey scrub in the dark............ Rest of the week was a repeat observe , climb , try to get in range and locate a recoverable bull. We all got animals and had a awesome trip heres some more pics. thru the spotting scope , unobtainium too had to get to Watto with great bull 270 weatheby win 70 extreme Chris first bull 264WM Nat the Ninja spotting bulls crampons my new favourite thing few heads stove pumping frozen cape bad weather had us over stay by two days , so jammed in to the MIA awaiting pick up lift out came to Hasst pass , left my tent with the next group. Bad week for the next group Trophies home |