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m239
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The Last Wildfowling Frontier
      #394493 - 23/11/25 05:47 PM


https://www.vintageguns.co.uk/magazine/the-last-wildfowling-frontier



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Re: The Last Wildfowling Frontier [Re: m239]
      #394504 - 24/11/25 07:12 AM

Boy don't you just love that!
Well done mate - bloody envious indeed.

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Re: The Last Wildfowling Frontier [Re: 93x64mm]
      #394505 - 24/11/25 08:01 AM

Quote:

Boy don't you just love that!
Well done mate - bloody envious indeed.





Not my adventure - just a good write up from Vintage Guns Journal.

;-)

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Edited by m239 (24/11/25 08:02 AM)

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Re: The Last Wildfowling Frontier [Re: m239]
      #394507 - 24/11/25 08:27 AM

Good story and a fantastic website. The wildfowling up there is pretty special.

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Re: The Last Wildfowling Frontier [Re: Claydog]
      #394512 - 24/11/25 08:07 PM

On my "bucket list" of hunting adventures. Marrakai took me out to Harrison's Dam one evening maybe with Matt Graham (?). I may have fired one shot? No goose. We didn't see much.

I don't see the Top End as "wilderness", certainly near Kakudu. Maybe part of Arnhemland? But perspective, if coming from the UK, Europe heavily populated parts of North America, it might feel like wilderness.

I was at a waterfowl paradise on a cattle station in the West on the Top Enc. The waterfowl in flight darkened the sun. But alas NO SHOOTING WATERFOWL. We were there for boar.

September is a lot hotter than August. October a step up again. November even more difficult .... Early August is better for buffalo hunting. Inland I've never saw many waterfowl. On the coast at Gan Gan, the waterfowl made a rackett way out on the wetlands. Croc waters. Need a boat to get out there.

Thanks for posting. An enjoyable read.

An adventure I aim to participate in one day. Maybe an end of August pig and/or buffalo hunt. Followed by an early September waterfowl hunt and fishing interlude.

A tourist photography and filming trip out to Cobourg?

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Re: The Last Wildfowling Frontier [Re: NitroX]
      #394629 - 30/11/25 01:59 PM

I'm with you John.

Need to get that Territory Macnab one of these days.

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Re: The Last Wildfowling Frontier [Re: m239]
      #394645 - 30/11/25 08:42 PM

Corrected the atrocious android smart phone typing and Auto incorrect on my post!

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Re: The Last Wildfowling Frontier [Re: m239]
      #394646 - 30/11/25 08:47 PM

Quote:

I'm with you John.

Need to get that Territory Macnab one of these days.



I've got my French 12-bore cape gun! One rifled 12-bore barrel. One barrel smooth bore. But 2 1/2" chambers, Need to reload 2 1/2" non toxic shot, probably bismuth, I'd have to brush up on my single barrel shotgun shooting skills.

Or my Tikka U/O combination of 12-bore and 9.3x74R.

I like the idea of the 12-bore cape gun.

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Re: The Last Wildfowling Frontier [Re: NitroX]
      #394647 - 30/11/25 08:50 PM

that would be a whole new class of Macnab - taking wing and hoof with the same firearm

;-)

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Re: The Last Wildfowling Frontier [Re: m239]
      #394678 - 01/12/25 08:27 PM

Dunno whether blasting a barra with a bore-gun would be considered pukka... !

In my case, the barra would need to be achieved with a fly rod to add to the challenge!

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