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4seventy
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Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End
      #8324 - 06/02/04 03:51 PM

I'm thinking of putting aside one week from my 2004 Cape York hunting safaris just for double rifle hunters use.
This would mean that there would be 3 or 4 vacancies for clients wanting to hunt with their doubles.
Hunt duration would be 5 to 7 days with an extra 2 days travel time and will be leaving from Cairns.
Air travel is also possible if hunters were pushed for time.
Game available will include Scrub Bulls (trophy fee), Wild Boar, Brumbies, and excellant fishing is available for barramundi, sarratoga, sooty grunta and other species.
Clients participating will have plenty of opportunity to shoot their doubles at game and there will be no problem regarding locating game at distances well suited to the use of open sights.
The best time for this hunt would be late September but could be done anytime from start of August till end of October. (NOVEMBER is stll a possibility - edited NitroX 12 July 2004)
Anyone interested in obtaining more details can send a PM or email.
alanmoon@bigpond.com
I'll keep this offer open untill the end of February '04.
Can provide plenty of references from long term clients.




Edited by NitroX (12/07/04 02:20 PM)

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: 4seventy]
      #8430 - 08/02/04 02:29 AM

Alan

This loolks like real fun.

I have some spots reserved on the wall for a real mutha-f*cka mean looking scrub bull. Having had some real mean bulls on our farm in the past I have developed nice strong calf muscles for a quick sprint getaway and headfirst leap over fences and gates.

Now this would be an opportunity to even the score. With a .450 calibre 480 gr pill

And three or four doubles in the camp sounds very cool.

Some photos please to further whet the interest.


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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: NitroX]
      #8432 - 08/02/04 02:31 AM

Hey Christer

Do you think your new .470 will handle these bulls and boars?

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: NitroX]
      #8434 - 08/02/04 02:53 AM

NitroX

I see no problems if I would be under gunned, I just sharpens my knife a little extra.

A few checkpoints on the road;

Double - Check
Time - Check
Money - Check
Interest - Check, Check

Wifes ok - ........................

Even if four out of five is ok I think the biggest problem will be #5



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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: cchunter]
      #8470 - 08/02/04 10:53 AM

In reply to:

Even if four out of five is ok I think the biggest problem will be #5


CC, some of my clients bring their wives and families with them to Cairns.
While the men are out hunting the family does tours of the Great Barrier Reef and goes shopping etc.
There are plenty of places to see and things to do in Cairns as it is the tourist capital of North Queensland.
When we return to Cairns after the hunt we often have a big get-together of the hunters and their families, and of course the guide, and dine on fresh seafood, beer wine or whatever else.

Hope you really enjoy your new double 470.

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: 4seventy]
      #8478 - 08/02/04 01:06 PM

Alan

You have a huge selling point there for the wives and kids. Stupid me I never thought of family holidays on the Great Barrier Reef and beaches.

I can vouch for the scenery and beauty of the region. I have only been there once for a stress reduction holiday after a corporate merger but Cairns is a lovely little city.

The bay is very nice and just off the coast is Green Island which has a small resort, some coral reefs and lovely white sands. A day trip there by ferry is a cheap and pleasant cruise.

To the North and South are endless sandy beaches and a short trip to the North is Port Douglas which has one of the best seafood restaurants in the world. President Clinton ate there . Plus a wonderful golf course (I believe, but we weren't harvesting tartan on that trip, but the female "golfers" could be very very nice).

To the North of Port Douglas is the Daintree rain forests and day trips from Port Douglas can be orgainsed into this famous park as well.

Inland are mountains and little hippy colonies now turned commercial. Plus also there is an Aboriginal cultural centre where you can learn about Aboriginal culture, throw a boomerang, or a spear (I did well with the spears) and see a flick on how evil the white settlers where. They forgot to mention they were cannibals back then though . A good book of those times is "Rivers of Gold" as the area was a gold rush area.

Alan, Man, the wives will want their hunter husbands to hunt two or three sessions










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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: NitroX]
      #8796 - 12/02/04 03:00 AM

Alan (4seventy) has asked me to assist with some photos and here are the first three.

Alan hunts with a number of double rifles and has a great pig and scrub bull concession in Cape Yorke Peninsula in Northern Queensland. For those of you who do not know, this is a truly wild area of Australia. In fact the original man behind the "Crocodile Dundee" story was marooned on an estuary in this region and had to put his survivial skills into play. And not much more than a hundred years ago a place cannibals roamed.

I hope to hunt with Alan as it sounds like great fun. If not this year in a future year.





A nice "Cape Yorker" and nice ivory too



And another with teeth worth collecting

More to follow at a better hour!

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: NitroX]
      #8797 - 12/02/04 03:10 AM

Man, I hope I don't have to get married again to enjoy this in the future.

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: 475Guy]
      #8803 - 12/02/04 04:05 AM

These pix inspires me!

475guy, do you have any secret pig hunting spots there in your area? I hear that the Coast Range and around Monterrey have good hunting.

I took my son hunting around Panoche Valley years ago. He got a nice one with a Ruger Blackhawk in 41 Mag. When the dogs chased it out of the brush, the bore had a go at the kid, who stood his ground and put one in piggy's mouth. The bore ripped a nice hole in the kids left pant leg...was pretty wild!!!

Guys in OZ, do your hogs get aggressive at times? Ours don't unless cornered...then all hell breaks loose. A lot depends on the mixed blood variations, too.


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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: NitroX]
      #8810 - 12/02/04 06:18 AM

Nitro you forgot to mention the local wildlife around Cairns mate.

Man saves dog from croc
By Lloyd Jones
10feb04

WHEN Ted Von Nida saw a crocodile chomping his howling dog in its jaws he knew he had to act fast.

The seaplane pilot was about to take his three dogs for a run on Sunday afternoon when the croc struck outside his Trinity Inlet home near Cairns.
Mr Von Nida said he had just turned his car around when he noticed something was wrong with the animals, which were standing next to a shallow culvert.

He says two of the dogs were frozen to the spot, looking first into the drain then back at him.

"I got straight out of my car and raced to the bank and saw my dog Buffy in trouble.









"He was trying to climb, like he was trying to get up a flight of stairs, and the croc had him and was just shaking him.

"It was sickening, he was being flung from side to side. My dog was howling... I just knew I had to get to him pretty quick," Mr Von Nida said.

When he moved within a few metres of the crocodile, it released the dog and charged, he said.

"The croc saw me and heard my voice and thought here's a bigger meal."

Mr Von Nida estimated the crocodile to be about 2.3 metres long.

"It was a full-blown charge and there was a bow wave off his head."

As the crocodile circled Mr Von Nida retreated to find his dog, which suffered several long cuts to its leg.

"(Since the attack) I've been spoiling him and just giving him steak and sleep," Mr Von Nida said.

He was surprised the crocodile was in the shallow drain, which is only two kilometres by water from downtown Cairns.

Wildlife officers yesterday set traps to catch the crocodile which may have made a home in a nearby inlet.

It's not the first time an animal has been grabbed by a crocodile in the inlet.

Four years ago, Mr Von Nida said Buffy's mother had a similar close call when a croc grabbed her by the snout as she was swimming.

"I had an oar and slapped the surface of the water with it (which) must have scared it off."

Mr Von Nida said he would always do all he could to save his dogs, which he loved for their unconditional friendship.



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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: luv2safari]
      #8833 - 12/02/04 12:03 PM

L2S, nope. All the good spots that used have really good pig hunting are now infested with road hunters who just literally drive the critters into deeper hiding. I used to go to the Los Padres a long time ago and had fairly good success back then. I also used to go Ft. Hunter Ligget but you have to sign in nowadays and go through all kinds of BS. The only places to go to nowadays seem to all be on private property.

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: 4seventy]
      #8840 - 12/02/04 12:38 PM

4seventy

That sounds like a blast but I don't want to get married to do it either. The timing is lousy for me as that is right in the middle of all of our seasons over here. We can't shoot all year so I guard that time. How about a earlier hunt, August or something? Are you busy making money then?



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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: mickey]
      #8847 - 12/02/04 01:13 PM

In reply to:

That sounds like a blast but I don't want to get married to do it either. The timing is lousy for me as that is right in the middle of all of our seasons over here. We can't shoot all year so I guard that time. How about a earlier hunt, August or something? Are you busy making money then?



Mick,
It would be no problem to do a hunt in August. I'll be in the Cape within a couple of weeks after returning from the Territory, maybe end of June.
Perhaps you could talk that fellow with the funny little hands to come along too.


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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: 4seventy]
      #8849 - 12/02/04 01:20 PM

Can we have seperate guides and tents?

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: 475Guy]
      #8858 - 12/02/04 02:36 PM

Bit slow I was wondering what all these "marrying" references are to.

Worked it out - wives and families on the coast, right.


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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: NitroX]
      #8891 - 13/02/04 02:31 AM

Some more pics









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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: NitroX]
      #8923 - 13/02/04 09:43 AM

Nitro, you're only a couple of hours behind.
By the way, you gotta stop posting those pictures. I'm on the hook for a bit of stuff and can't make any plans to hunt overseas until maybe in 05-06.

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: NitroX]
      #8974 - 13/02/04 06:30 PM

what the hell is that big reddish-brown looking thing... looks like a damn rhino on the atkins diet.... but with horns on the side....

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: Dark_Helmet]
      #9029 - 14/02/04 09:43 PM


DasMafia,

That "thing" is called a "bull" and I'm not bullshitting you.

475Guy

Some more pics just for you. I want you "hooked".








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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: NitroX]
      #9038 - 15/02/04 01:03 AM

Damn, Nitro. You are thoroughly merciless!! I'm not just hooked, I done swollered the whole kit-n-kaboodle!!

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: 4seventy]
      #9273 - 17/02/04 08:14 PM

Sounds good. All I have to do is get a double. I dont have to worry about leaving the wife in Cairns, we already live in Cairns. There is definitley plenty for a wife and family to do in Cairns while your out hunting.

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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End [Re: cr500]
      #10884 - 05/03/04 12:34 AM

Well I went hunting scrub bull and then suddenly I wished .............




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Re: Double Rifle Hunt In The Top End - NOV ? [Re: 4seventy]
      #16610 - 12/07/04 02:17 PM

Allan has almost sold out of hunt places for 2004 and only has ONE LEFT!

He is still interested in doing a Double Rifle Bull hunt.

Any takers? i'm definitely keen.



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Edited by NitroX (12/07/04 02:22 PM)

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