If you were to hunt Australia!

Dogleg said:
Sometimes we have to experience places as they are, and not how we wish they were, or like our favorite place, or how we would have designed them. That's the nature of adventure. If things are predictable, or go more or less according to plan, or you don't accidently get stranded alone on the other side of the world it might not have been much of an adventure at all. :)
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Well said......
 
Dogleg said:
Sometimes we have to experience places as they are, and not how we wish they were, or like our favorite place, or how we would have designed them. That's the nature of adventure. If things are predictable, or go more or less according to plan, or you don't accidently get stranded alone on the other side of the world it might not have been much of an adventure at all. :)
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The very basis of TIA right there, applies to many places beside the A. :d
 
After sitting on a beach in Maui all day and devouring two hemmingway books this thread has become exactly what's on my mind. He just puts the words down on paper the way it is. And how it is. Good countries. Bad countries. Safe countries. It's all relative and everything you put into it, comes back to you.

Whether you know it at the time or realize it later, adventure is all around. Hunting in Mexico, and picking up a local who smuggles you through Tijuana military border bypass lane and hit the front of the line. All for 40$ or driving 18 hours in a single day just to hike in for stone sheep with your dad. Not seeing any sheep after days and days but having him say it was one of the best experiences he ever had and wouldn't change a single thing.

I have dreams of hunting around the world, and that drive either takes up all your attention or is always there in the back of your mind eating away.
 
you can also book me down for a few days penguin shooting,that will be fun if they
are all lined up on the cliff edge.
also i would do a few days of tree kangaroo shooting,lumholtz/boongary.
they seem an interesting creature to hunt down
 
WhelanLad said:
If you had the chance to come Down Under and listen to the Thunder, see some Babes in Bikinis and drink a few VBs mate, which of our PESTS would You like to hunt.

I'll let you pick 3 Animals. I don't care if they are Native or not LOL just for conversation sakes.


(for the record, some natives can be 'controlled' legally, think the skipping ones with big tails)



I am looking forward to your thoughts!


Thanks

WL
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Buff, buff and more buff.

if the truth be told mate, I'd rather be in a skiff off Weipa with a fly rod in my hand, or in the NT chasing barramundi with light tackle....

Australia is a fantastic place, flat white's, Bundy and coke, miles and bloody miles of blue gums, deserts, reefs, beaches, Shielas, footy and cricket.......paradise!
 
TylerM said:
I really cannot wait for an opportunity to move to the US. Which makes me kinda sad because I shouldn't have to feel this way. People live in constant fear, today.
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Warning, once you move here, you won't even want to go back to Canada :)

As much as I am Saskatchewan free born and free bred, left there going on 25 yrs back for Australia, left there 2 yrs back for the USA, and LOVING it. I retired here because my retirement dollar goes a long ways compared to Australia and Canada. Real freedom? Yes, infact freedom finds you here. More variety, lots of choice and competition, but always a shortage of .22LR @ about $50US/brick when available :), that sucks, ha!

The reality is, most Canadians that move to America, rarely come back to live.

Comparing my life in two other countries which I considered free, it's really truly free here. Life is beyond excellent.

So get that visa going, mine took almost 2 yrs for approval.
 
Ardent said:
You know I like guns and all, but more and more I care about the experiences you can have behind them than the chunks of metal, wood, and plastic. Australia has a lot of experiences I wouldn't give up on because of political objections, guns will come under increasing pressure here too and life and adventures will continue on. As will hunting.

And as Dogleg points out without expressly saying so it's all relative. American clients of mine come here and are aghast at our firearm laws and lack of "freedom". I point to fresh grizzly tracks in camp and shrug, we've got our things too they don't at home (don't get many Alaskans here)- as do Aussies. Life gets a lot easier when you stop worrying about the politics and just start enjoying every experience you can, you'll get a lot more out of life than hugging a safe full of HKs, Glocks, and Benellis.

Isn't a whole lot of fulfillment and life experience in that. Not that I want to follow Australia's firearms path one bit... Or the UK's... But it also isn't going to stop me from hunting or enjoying hunting in those places. Zimbabwe ain't exactly firearm owner friendly and to give up on the surreal hunting experiences there to object to that... Well that's a bit like not sleeping with a supermodel in the Vatican because she's not allowed to wear a short dress. The fun's still there, there's just some crap in the way you quickly forget about.
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+1. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to have a discussion on this site about hunting in foreign lands without someone lurching in to deliver a barely coherent rant about another country's firearms laws and its gun owners.
 
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Ha ha, while only pasting three paragraphs of supporting facts of the statement , out of a few hundred page book.

I rekon you blokes should go to the Must Watch thread i posted Cow shooting in Oz... its actually HUGE Scrub Bulls
 
Just found this thread and it got me to thinking. If I were to book a hunt in Australia, I would definitely bring my 45-70.
So a question for those with experience....is the 45-70 enough for Koala Bear defense? Should I go with a heavy hardcast for penetration, or stick with a jacketed expanding bullet? Should I go for a CNS hit, or try to break him down by hitting heavy bone like a shoulder?
 
FLHTCUI said:
Oh Oh Oh, them Huntsman Spiders, boody hell they are 'uge.....
Rob
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I lived in Australia for awhile. I had a massive huntsman in my house. I didn't mind him because he ate the white tailed spiders that were around. Since lived in Sydney, part of my morning routine was checking my boots for funnel web spiders, red back spiders and white tailed spiders.
 
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Buffalo, Banteng, and (although I have no idea why...) Camel!

A few feet of water buffalo horn on the wall would be nice...but a camel skull on the bookshelf just might be the ultimate conversation-starting trophy. :)
 
I've always wanted to hunt Sambar and Fallow deer. If I was going all that way, I would want to hunt Red Deer too. I wish I was into hunting when I lived there. It feels like a wasted opportunity now that I look back on it.
 
jjohnwm said:
Buffalo, Banteng, and (although I have no idea why...) Camel!

A few feet of water buffalo horn on the wall would be nice...but a camel skull on the bookshelf just might be the ultimate conversation-starting trophy. :)
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Yeah nice one, I too like them ideas! I got a meter of Buffalo on the Wall an did attempt to find some Camels once , but wasn't to be! I think their Skulls look awesome..an half mean!

Nice choices
 
Buffalo and wild boars in the Northern Territory; that would be a dream hunt.

Is there any hunting in Western Australia?
 
Cintax said:
I lived in Australia for awhile. I had a massive huntsman in my house. I didn't mind him because he ate the white tailed spiders that were around. Since lived in Sydney, part of my morning routine was checking my boots for funnel web spiders, red back spiders and white tailed spiders.
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Twas mostly tongue in cheek comment.
I know the Red Backs are nasty buggars and the funnel web.....well lets say he gave me the stink eye when I was checking his den out in the Brisbane Park he resided in.

The Girl Friend played with a Huntsman in the mailbox one time, she didnt know it was a spider in there checking her mail first.
Suffice to say , she wet her panties when she realized it was a spider in the mail box tickling her fingers back...

Caqmels, forgot about those...seen a small herd out near Uluru from about 4 miles no less.

Rob
 
I wouldn't hunt in Aus... I would lay on the beach and work on my tan... take my wife out for some great dinners and a sunset cruise or two... take the jump over to NZ to look for Frodo... and when I got home, I would hop on a flight to SK/AB/BC and do a combo pronghorn/whitetail/elk hunt...
 
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