Nick

Property access is the key. If you have the access to large Northern stations you might be able to hunt them for free, depending on the specific owner of course.

I shot my scrub bulls on two different buffalo hunts one with an outfitter where I paid a reasonably cheap trophy fee, and the other on a buffalo cull with the landowners son where I paid a trophy fee as well for the bull. That bull did have SIZABLE horns too.

Basically a "scrub bull" is a more or less "wild" or feral bull which has never been mustered. Property owners can find them very difficult either to muster or to handle so might prefer them shot instead.

Also some properties are so large that the entire area of the station is not "worked". Cattle that get out of the "worked" area are not mustered or not bothered with. So if you get access to a good property and get pointed to such an area, it is no real loss to the cattle operations of the station owner.

I can't comment on this myself, but I have heard from many people that scrub bulls are the most likely to get "cheeky" more so than water buffalo or cape buffalo, and charge un-provoked. Alan (mentioned below) also makes hunting videos and has said he has had too many close calls when filming as he can't carry a rifle and his camera at the same time when filming. And handguns are not permitted for that purpose in Queensland.

Aussie hunters use all sorts of calibres for scrub bull hunting from the average medium calibres, .270s, .30-06s, to big bore rifles. I like to use my 9.3, .375 or .450.

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Alan Moon, does boar and scrub bull safaris in the Far North of Queensland (among other hunts), and his prices when I asked were very good. Give him a bell and see what he can do for you. I would like to hunt with Alan myself oneday.

Actually because the hunting is in the Far North of Qld a trip like that could be combined with a beach holiday to the Great Barrier Reef and islands as well. Great if one was bringing the wife and/or family.