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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 ![]() |