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Been a while between posts but I've been flat out hunting. Have a few reports to catch up on but will get this one out first.

Just got back from 8 days up NT and to say we had an excellent trip was an understatement, it was non stop action packed hunting with a bit of everything along the way. The 375 Ruger made light work of all the game it was presented with and most animals went down to a single shot. I ended up running 300gr Barnes TSX doing 2550fps and they were absolute dynamite, I couldn't have asked for any more.

I'm still getting a full article together but this is a brief run down of the trip. I managed a heap of video and pictures so still working my way through it.

The first day saw us right in the thick of it with 3 Buffalo taken 1 bull by me and 2 by Lee one young and one mature. It was a relief to have connected on a nice bull from the start and made for a nice exploratory 7 days after that looking for new and exciting grounds. Unfortunately the spot where I got my bull had been mustered and had 200 taken off it so will go a bit earlier next time. I put the game camera on the carcass and all I can say is over 4 days the video footage was insane with monster boars and sows ripping it to pieces.

The next few days was spent, fishing, exploring and rolling scrub bulls where I managed to take 3 mature bulls and 2 young ones for baits. Unfortunately the barra had shut down when we were there but I did manage a bull shark that was cruising the surface.

After that we put our attention back on the buff, pigs and deer and I managed to roll a young bull buff and a trophy pig whist I was in the middle of taking a slash. In that time we did manage to find an insane buff creek that will have a majority of my attention next year. It was non stop up close and personal hunting in this creek with 10m contacts common over the 1.5kms that we walked. We managed to see and photograph 8 buff in this small strip and moved a very big bull out of its bed as well, which was a very adrenaline filled moment. I loved every bit of the tight big game hunting and was a memorable hunt.

The pig went 30 douglas had only 2 top molars left so wanted to get him on the wall, he had clean ears as well so that was suprising and was a very old pig which is rare for the parts I took him, he had avoided a heap of hunters thats for sure.

Unfortunately they wouldnt ship my pig cape home (well they checked it in and then I find out at Sydney it didn't make it frozen) so I am on the look out for a ginger one like in the shots, I dont imagine its going to be too easy to come by unfortunately, but I had mine frozen and it thawed in the temps before it got into the plane unfortunately and they must have bust the packaging. The rest of the bone got rescued by a mate up there thankfully. Stoked to get a bull down thats representative and now we can go back whenever we want after getting plenty of connections willing to have us there, so I have the bench mark now for future trips. This trip was one to remember and for the price of a ticket one that I plan on doing time after time.

Edited by MickGibbo (07/10/10 04:12 PM)