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The Bush Tucker Man
      #370816 - 28/10/22 02:08 AM

The Bush Tucker Man - Les Hiddens, Series 1, Episode q

I last saw this video many decades ago!

Les heads across Arnhemland from South to North, then West.


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VIEWER ADVICE: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this program may contain images and voices of people who have died.

Join us as we go bush in Australia's north with the original Bush Tucker Man! In episode 1, Major Les Hiddins of the Australian Army is heading to Arnhem Land, on a mission to record the many bush foods and medicines of northern Australia. Les travels to the closed Indigenous community of Ngukurr, where locals share some remarkable bush tucker secrets.

'Bush Tucker Man: Arnhem Land' originally aired on the ABC in 1988.

Bush Tucker Man - Series 1 Episode 1 | https://youtu.be/lcsZHOD9P8E

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: NitroX]
      #370817 - 28/10/22 02:10 AM

One of our NE members once told me another of our NE members taught Les everything Les knew! Wow if only half true.

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: NitroX]
      #370824 - 28/10/22 03:24 AM

Good video, John. Quite interesting, especially the pounded tree bark fishing. 1/2 was through it, will watch the rest later.

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: NitroX]
      #370825 - 28/10/22 03:27 AM


I've never seen this episode before. Down the West Coast of the Top End during the Wet.

I've never been up there during the Wet. Closest was late November 2007 with Marr Graham in the Cobourg Peninsula chasing banteng. Les says you sweat four litres a day. I reckon indie that in two or three hours! Hot and humid. It rained every afternoon.

Bush Tucker Man - Series 1 Episode 2 | https://youtu.be/qQl1O_W17X4

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This episode is dedicated to the memory of Richard Walker (1952 - 2022). Richard was a producer on the series for the ABC.

VIEWER ADVICE: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this program may contain images and voices of people who have died.

Join us as we go bush in Australia's north with the original Bush Tucker Man! Continuing his work cataloguing bush medicines and food of northern Australia, Major Les Hiddins takes us across the Daly River and on to Wadeye on the north west coast of Australia's Northern Territory.

Les relies on local Aboriginal knowledge, passed down from generations over thousands of years, to uncover the keys to survival in one of the world's harshest environments.

'Bush Tucker Man: Port Keats' originally aired on the ABC in 1988.

Bush Tucker Man - Series 1 Episode 1 | https://youtu.be/lcsZHOD9P8E
Bush Tucker Man - Series 1 Episode 2 | https://youtu.be/qQl1O_W17X4

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: NitroX]
      #370828 - 28/10/22 04:02 AM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ybWi8jm4uDY&t=0s

Tanami Desert country. We were going to drive the Tanami Desert track to NW Australia in 1983. But the police said the road was washed out by a flood for seventy kilometres so no go.

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Join us as we head out bush in Australia's north with the original Bush Tucker Man! In episode 3, Les is in the arid zone demonstrating that it is possible to find food and water in the desert. You just have to know where to look!

This episode originally aired on ABC TV in 1988.

Bush Tucker Man - Series 1 Episode 1 | https://youtu.be/lcsZHOD9P8E
Bush Tucker Man - Series 1 Episode 2 | https://youtu.be/qQl1O_W17X4
Bush Tucker Man - Series 1 Episode 3 | https://youtu.be/ybWi8jm4uDY

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: NitroX]
      #370835 - 28/10/22 07:12 AM

Les Hiddens - he was brilliant, great show he did.
Basically collecting the knowledge off the aboriginals (ridgy-dige ones, not them city myalls) using it for the army to survive out bush if they had to.
Thanks John - I'll file that away to watch later!

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: NitroX]
      #370907 - 30/10/22 11:54 AM

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The Bush Tucker Man - Les Hiddens, Series 1, Episode 1

I last saw this video many decades ago!

Les heads across Arnhemland from South to North, then West.

'Bush Tucker Man: Arnhem Land' originally aired on the ABC in 1988.



The Walker River area is where Graham Williams hunts and I hunted with him 2005 or 6.

I wonder what the handgun/revolver is that Les is wearing?

I assume it is for croc protection, seeing he walks around in the creek's and wetlands. I am guessing his army role allows the use of a handgun. Though the NT and Queensland does allow use of handguns for guides I think.

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: NitroX]
      #370921 - 30/10/22 10:36 PM

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I wonder what the handgun/revolver is that Les is wearing?


Smith & Wesson Model 29 w/ 8 3/8 inch barrel.

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: Marrakai]
      #370928 - 31/10/22 01:38 AM

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I wonder what the handgun/revolver is that Les is wearing?


Smith & Wesson Model 29 w/ 8 3/8 inch barrel.

Currently resides in the Canberra War Memorial.



I didn't expect an answer. Thanks!

Is it .357 or .44 Magnum?

A good place for it. Does the Bush Tucker Man have a war memorial exhibition?

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      #370929 - 31/10/22 01:42 AM

I'm guessing a .44 Magnum. Is this the model of the Dirty Harry revolver?

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: NitroX]
      #370942 - 31/10/22 03:46 AM

In the movies, some "pictures" had Harry Calahan packing an 8 3/8", but most of the shooting was with a 6 1/2".
All through the 70's, model 29's were hard to find. The Dirty Harry movies really popularized them.
I bought a 4" in 1974, used & fired 5 times by the original owner. I got the gun, in mahogany box, with 1 full box
of RP 240gr. and part box with 45 rounds + the 5 empties the original owner shot. Cost $200.00. I've had a 4"
ever since. I still have my second, at this time.

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: DarylS]
      #370946 - 31/10/22 05:29 AM

I have a memory that Les carried a Smith and Wesson in 45 Long Colt?

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      #370949 - 31/10/22 09:52 AM

.44 Magnum.

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: Marrakai]
      #370951 - 31/10/22 11:00 AM

I meet him twice about 40 years ago when I was living on the Peninsula. He camped in my backyard one night. Was a fairly self sufficient type of bloke and not that talkative. Pretty sure he carried a Ruger Blackhawk in.44 Mag.

I always enjoyed his shows.

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      #370956 - 31/10/22 05:21 PM

@ 11:45 - model 29, 8 3/8".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odZ4mIpXj6Y&ab_channel=ABCAustralia

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: DarylS]
      #370957 - 31/10/22 08:11 PM

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@ 11:45 - model 29, 8 3/8".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odZ4mIpXj6Y&ab_channel=ABCAustralia



Not knocking Les. He would have had legal rights to be armed as a serving army officer doing official duties.

But as pleb civilians, no such right to protect ourselves with a handgun, ready for an emergency from a crock attack. When hunting, fishing, walking, photographing etc.

Daryl, you've been busy. That's the second series.

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: NitroX]
      #370961 - 01/11/22 03:05 AM

Finished book 5 in the Wheel of Time series just after supper and needed something to do for a few hours last night. There's sure a lot of those videos.

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      #370984 - 01/11/22 11:50 AM

I'm told that prior to John Howard, handgun permits for protection against crocs, were quite common and easy to get in the NT. Quite a lot of anglers used to carry them. Unfortunately, old Jackboot Johnny, forced the NT to change their laws. Being a Territory, they had no choice.

These days much more restricted, although PHs and guides can be licensed. Also overseas tourists can get a permit to use the PH's handgun "for the purposes of the safari". As a licenced handgun shooter, I can't get a permit to take my own handgun on an NT hunt. Which is why my hunting dollars will be spent in Africa and not the NT.

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      #370995 - 02/11/22 02:33 AM

Good luck taking your own handgun on an African safari...

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: Marrakai]
      #370996 - 02/11/22 02:46 AM

Apparently packing in Africa used to be allowed. Ross Seyfried has packed one and even shot a cape buffalo with one. I do not know which "Country" he hunted it or what permits were required, nor how he managed to get it there and through customs.
Here, up until recently, game guides & some bush workers could get a permit to pack something .357 mag or more powerful as a bear deterrent.
Now, I suspect that would be impossible but I have not heard that current have been revoked.

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: DarylS]
      #371006 - 02/11/22 11:08 AM

Actually handgun hunting is allowed in several African countries. I have done so in South Africa, using my .454 Casull to take Kudu, Bushbuck and Impala. In general the handguns have to be of a type suitable for hunting and not self defence, semi-autos are generally off limits. Zimbabwe and Mozambique are on my wish list for some time in the next couple of years.

Not all countries allow visiting hunters to bring handguns so check well before making any plans. Also check the situation in any country you may have to transit through.

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: Hunter4752001]
      #371017 - 02/11/22 04:56 PM

Does anyone know if the Bush Tucker Man series was made into a commercial book. Specifically on the plants etc. identifying the plants, photos, diagrams, fruits etc and preparing them for use?

Marrakai, do you know?

It's funny because this exact sort of info was what was behind the real purpose of Hiddens' expeditions.

I'm buying a guide book currently on what herbs etc to grow for a herb/plant hypothercary . A North American project book. Will see if it's any good.

But the Aboriginals had vast knowledge of the native plants. Southern plants down here. Hiddens stuff is Northern of course.

Natural remedies can work. Sometimes modern trendies and wokels over rate it. But still can work somewhat. In these days when Big Pharma can't be trusted hardly at all and sells poisons labelled as medicine, maybe blackfella herbs and bark are better!

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Re: The Bush Tucker Man [Re: NitroX]
      #371025 - 02/11/22 06:19 PM

Jaywon plants and Animals , by Margaret Katherine and others one of the best books available on NT bush tucker.

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      #371035 - 03/11/22 02:42 AM

Took my S&W 500 to South Africa and Zimbabwe on two different safaris. Took a lion and an old stink bull giraffe with it. No problem with the customs, but when I returned through Atlanta the customs geek couldn't figure out how to check the s/n. Zero handgun knowledge!

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