Red kangaroo Gray kangaroo Wild boar Wild cat Fox
Rabbit Feral cat Crows
Walleroo, Redneck wallabies Emu (with correct tags) Dingoes (when in area) Wild goats, trophy billies Fallow deer (arranged) Other animals can be added but
may involve vast differences in locations and tags.
Big herd of young goats. Trophies will come out of this bunch in a year or two.
stand the level of presentable targets in- volved in a hunt down under. If caught with a rabbit as a pet, for example, in this country the fi ne is $30,000. What that says is the Aussies have a problem with animal control. I spent a day sorting out exactly
what was going on in terms of my needs as a hunter. Yes, it is just that compli- cated. What do you want to shoot, how many, and where are they? As for my guide, Marc, and the Big Shooter, the company, the fee is straightforward and a one-time deal. Pay the preset and established advance fee for your com- plete hunt and you can shoot anything you like that is within the law. Believe
me, that’s a pile of leeway in the area of target selection. As previously indicated, I had
elected to hunt for several massive kangaroo versus shooting up a pile of small critters. That’s a personal choice I’m here to say, and I wanted to come away with several nice hides that were of good quality and very large. Settling on this plan, I was informed that pigs and trophy goats were also in the mix. If located, have at them, Marc indicated, as you already have observed in terms of what had previously taken place in the pork recovery department. Here is a list of animals I was al- lowed to shoot with impunity.
Example: water buffalo, trophy class deer, or crocodiles. Australia has a wide range of ani-
mals that can develop into a real mixed bag varmint and trophy hunt. Or at least that is what came about when I was down under. I found the goats, like big kangaroo, were of major interest to me, and I managed to shoot several. Two were very much trophy class 28½ ", 150- lb animals. Goat hunting was spot and stalk or just “hull down” ( vehicle park- ing below line of sight) positioning of the 4x4 in heavy cover near waterholes. Both methods were very effective and I shot my trophy animals both on the wa- ter’s edge ( billabong) and directly in the thick of the bush while hunting on foot. Hogs were lowland hunting events
Culled fallow deer. The landowner wants some removed because of quality. Varmint hunters can take care of such needs with ease.
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and here another new Aussie friend (of which there were many on the hunt), Mike Groth, with full snake chaps, elected to walk the high grass near the water (reeds) in search of nesting boar or hogs in the heat of the day. My other partner near Toowoomba, Australia, Scott Withey, the landowner, drove the ridges with his Ford Super Duty right-hand steering conversion hunting rig. It was an effective system in that I bagged 15 pigs from the left side of the truck in two days of gunning, and this was considered quite an active hunt. Thanks go to Mike and Scott for their efforts. Mike also got lead into his share of fl ushed hogs during the hunt, so I felt better as to his efforts in that long and dangerous snake-infested grass. Both of these Aussies joined the hunt from the station I was staying at just for the fun of it , and managed to also upgrade the event substantially by their efforts in the fi eld. In short, I can’t say enough about the total hospitality of these outback
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