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Over the Sticks
      #333382 - 13/10/19 11:30 AM

Heres a few pics from local hunts. Mostly in the cabungi and horrible swampy conditions. Missed a couple of shots from sitting in the water or of hand. Filthy with myself, I cut a couple of sticks on the way home and made a set of shooting sticks. Haven't looked back. Great for the swamp.
sow 1/3 338-06 before the sticks

2/3 3rd was a bit Humpty Dumpty and couldn't be put back together so no pic

Boar shot just on dark deep water and Im not very happy about being in the water

Back in the morning and he had been dragged a few metres by a small croc
Styer and Uschi new Wei pup

view over the sticks

long shot over the sticks 170m 338-06 185GMX hard to get a good pic mozzies very thick

solid boar

Vey large sow, very fat. Each leg 10kg's. Back straps were very good eating

Styer with 338-06 resting on the sticks

sow on the edge

Fierce edge 300WSM and a close shot. Watching a clearing and the only pigs to show were young so waited. Nothing showed so took this little one. 178ELDX

Looking for a new spot , Styer put his nose up. A few metres on I spotted what I thought looked like a pig. Nah moved on. Decided its definitely a pig 4-5m. Earplugs in and as I raised the rifle he stood up. Thru both shoulders


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Re: Over the Sticks [Re: 264]
      #333384 - 13/10/19 01:41 PM

Awesome on many fronts;

1] great rifle
2] really interesting scenery
3] good shooting
4] great dogs!!
5] the utmost in Business-in-the-Front & Party-in-the-Back!!!

Great post!!

What bullet/load??

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Re: Over the Sticks [Re: 264]
      #333389 - 13/10/19 08:04 PM

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view over the sticks

long shot over the sticks 170m 338-06 185GMX hard to get a good pic mozzies very thick

solid boar





And this shows when hunting in the Top End, sometimes a successful hunter just has to get his feet wet and muddy.

Mick, doesn't the mud make a lot of noise and scare the pigs away? Maybe a reason for the somewhat longer shots and need for the sticks?

Good idea to use some shooting sticks in that sort of country. I remember hunting fallow deer in a coastal area of SA. Flat tussock coastal 'swamps' covered with tussocks about thigh high. And salt pans. Islands in the salt pans. Sometimes one could only see the antlers sticking out above the tussocks. Shooting offhand was very difficult, ranges maybe 90 metres plus. Don't want to miss, they aren't paper. Longish shooting sticks would have been perfect I realised years later. Now this area is probably all housing. Big new suburb being bult there, old Buckland Park. Sad.

Here's hoping the Top End resists urban and close settlement for another fifty years.

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Re: Over the Sticks [Re: NitroX]
      #333411 - 14/10/19 02:51 AM

Good on ya, Mic. When I was a younger man, I'd not have
thought twice about that "type" of hunting, but nowadays,
ahhhh - not so much.

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Re: Over the Sticks [Re: DarylS]
      #333441 - 14/10/19 10:19 PM

Well done Mick, some ripper trophies once again, good looking dog as well, very proud.

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Re: Over the Sticks [Re: Waidmannsheil]
      #333477 - 16/10/19 01:45 AM

Well done Mick; we also have in Southern France a swampy area called "the Camargue" that is well known for water fowling and for numerous wild boars.
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Re: Over the Sticks [Re: 264]
      #333482 - 16/10/19 07:51 AM

Mick, rather you in that with the swimming bities and the flying bities than me...................well maybe not.

Well done.


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Re: Over the Sticks [Re: Rule303]
      #333485 - 16/10/19 12:59 PM

Buffalo cause those big flat swampy areas in the Top End. They break down the sides of rivers and creeks and the water spreads out. Wallows and walking in the mud.

That is if it isn't a naturally occurring swamp/wetland.

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