Bulldog

As mentioned I can personally recommend based on my personal hunts with them:

* Matt Graham of Hunt Australia

* Graham Williams of Australian Buffalo Hunters.

Both have LINKs pages on the NitroExpress.com South Pacific Outfitters LINKS forum. These pages include contact details, web sites , email addresses etc.

I have also written up two hunting stories:

Buffalo hunt at Gan Gan - do a search on "Gan Gan" with Hunt Australia 2004

and

"Buff, Bulls, Boars and Barramundi" with Graham Williams this year. Story STILL not completed and unlikely to be before I head off to India as I am burning up a lot of hours to get ready. Still over half the hunts are listed and a good lot of photos. They are both in the Australian hunting forum of NitroExpress.com

Both hunts were enjoyable and each was different in a number of ways, but not negative. Coastal swamps vs Inland rivers, Sweeping horns vs Crescent shaped horns, mobile camp vs fixed camps, among others.

I believe Hunt Australia takes a few animals (two or three) of around 105 to 108 and sometimes bigger each year. You have to be lucky, or be selective and hunt very hard if you really want one.

Graham Williams has also taken some very large and well scoring buffalo trophies as well.

I think you are right, in not preferring 'ranch hunting". The wild stuff is much much more fun.

Other game to consider in the Territory would be:

banteng bull trophy (a wild cattle species in the Coburg Peninsula of the NT);
scrub bull trophy (wild or feral bull cattle are good hunts);
boar.

Other hunts eg to Northern Queensland for chital stag (deer) and New Caledonia for World Class Rusa stag (deer) could also be booked with various outfitters.