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From: Nitro (Original Message) Sent: 9/6/2002 6:17 PM

Similar to the American thread which 5 animals do you think are the premier game animals in Australia. I guess this may depend a lot of personal preferences but that's OK.

You do not have to have hunted all of them or any of them for that matter. You do not even have to have hunted in Australia at all. This is a discussion for your desires and dreams and which ones interest you.

If you had to name the top 5 trophies or game animals to hunt, what in you opinion are they? And where?

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From: Bigfive Sent: 9/9/2002 5:28 PM
Nitro,

I don't know all that much about Australian game but if get the chance to hunt there I would certainly try and hunt your wild boar,water buffalo and off course a cangaroo.The other thing that also look good although not game is your scrub bulls.You told me a few months ago that they can also get a little on the aggresive side of life.I this a good choice for a foreigner to hunt in Oz or not?And with all of this maybe a good marlin fishing trip on your east coast just for the hell of it.

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From: Nitro Sent: 9/10/2002 12:57 AM
BigFive

Most scrub bulls are shot when hunting pigs and perhaps buffalo. Perhaps someone can correct me, but I haven't heard of many outfitters that offer a specific scrub bull hunt. But seeing the other game on your list, you would be in the right country anyway.

I think a nice scrub bull would make an excellent trophy. If a nice looking bull with good front facing horns, I think it would like great on the dining room wall. The skins are great too.

The Marlin fishing off Queensland is reputed to be good value. I think there are two types of marlin and fishing for one type is not out of the reach of ordinary people if they save up. Haven't done it but known some fisherman that do it most years.

You have some good marlin fishing off to the East of South Africa I believe and also over towards the Comores. Ever fished them before?

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From: Nitro Sent: 9/13/2002 12:17 AM
My personal top 5 Australian game trophy animals.

Haven't taken them all yet so there's still room for ambition and more hunting.

1. Water Buffalo
You have to love those wide sweeper horns. And hunting Water Buff in a tented camp is the closest you get to an "Australian Safari".

2. Sambar Deer
A large trophy sambar stag is one of the premier trophy animals in the world. Many Australian hunters take decades or a lifetime of hunting to find a true trophy stag. Some have compared them to Bongo hunting in East Africa except most hunters hunt self guided and alone (with some mates in the camp). In size the animal is the third largest deer species after the Moose, Wapiti. They inhabit high thickly forested mountain country and are not herd animals usually being in singles, or twos or threes at the most. Population density is about 1 per 3 square kilometres of heavy mountain bush.

Stanley Stagg has posted a couple of excellent photos of Sambar stags. I should be so lucky to have taken one like these. Still trying.

3. Red Deer Stag
Just a personal preference. I love the Royal Reds and have been lucky to take a nice 11 pointer with thick neams in Australia and a Royal 12 pointer in NZ.

4. Fallow Deer
Love those palms. Probably one of the most numerous and widespread deer species in Australia due to the Deer Parks of many "squatter" properties at the turn of the century. Broken fences, released etc resulted in many wild herds.

5. Trophy Goat or Boar
Yes I am cheating, naming two. But I love hunting both. I have shot many goats, none of what I call trophy size though as I feel the areas I have hunted do not have many or any large goats. Many of the animals shown in magazines etc I would not call trophy size or even representative. Have only ever seen two large goats alive and a friend missed one. The other never presented a shot.

Pigs - well they are just fun. And boar and pig hunting has devotees everywhere almost around the world.

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There are numerous others - Hog deer, Banteung, the most beautiful deer in the world - chital etc but I have already named six.

The best thing is there is no need to stop at 5 (or 6)!

Nitro

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