SGraves155--Australia06
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Topic: SGraves155--Australia06
Posted By: sgraves155
Subject: SGraves155--Australia06
Date Posted: 21 August 2007 at 11:38
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Area--Carmor Plains on the western border of Kakadu PH--Matt Kelman Game taken--Buffalo, croc(trapped)(Matt had depredation permit) other game seen--dingoes, wallabies, thick with big crocs. Lotsa wild hogs
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------------- Steve |
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 22 August 2007 at 01:45
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great pics, thanks for posting them. Doubt I'l like to swim in your waters! can you tell us something about the buffalo kill? gun? stalk, shot impact, etc? quite different than our usual whitetail hunt I'm sure. BEAR |
Posted By: sgraves155
Date Posted: 22 August 2007 at 02:47
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Bear, This hunt was a scheduled break in a "tourist" type trip with a lady friend, and I was using a borrowed 375H&H. Matt was using his 458WinMag. Matt only had 2 X-bullets in 300gr, and a bunch of 270gr to sight in the 375 rifle (turned out they didn't shoot to the same place). The usual way to hunt buff is to pick up their tracks wherever you find bull tracks crossing the dirt roads, then follow on foot. We had tracked a bull for several hours that morning, without success, and returned to the truck, hot and thirsty. As we started the drive back to the Station, a big bull ran across the trail in front of us. We grabbed our rifles and took off after him. He finally stopped and I put an x-bullet into him, but it was a poor shot, and he took off. We chased after him for about 30 minutes, finally killing him out in the middle of a swamp. He had absorbed 7 rounds of 375 and 3 rounds of 458. During the chase I had fallen in a pool and drowned my camera. We had left our knives back at the truck, and out in the middle of the swamp, with the buffalo as the only dry place to sit on, I realized that between us, we had one round of ammo remaining. We had 600 yds of croc infested swamp to wade thru to get back to dry land. No one could pay me enough to walk thru there again, but we made it back with no close calls (that I am aware of). ------------- Steve |
Posted By: sgraves155
Date Posted: 06 April 2008 at 12:13
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Matt Kelman had excellent success on buff and croc in 2007, including some more monstrous crocs-- take a look at his photos: http://www.australiawidesafaris.com.au/ - http://www.australiawidesafaris.com.au/ ------------- Steve |