303 on more Buffalo
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Topic: 303 on more Buffalo
Posted By: .303
Subject: 303 on more Buffalo
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 5:07am
Headed out bush again with a mate from down south to try his luck and new rifle he built. I'd say the day was a success with 6 Buff down for the day. More pics will follow.        ------------- Amor patriae |
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Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 5:58am
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Awesome pictures Bud !!! ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: sayak
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 8:55am
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Dang, a chainsaw no less! Nice beast. ------------- I support hard work, creativity, freedom, responsibility and truth |
Posted By: EnfieldHunter
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 11:53am
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That is really cool. What is the gun in the photo? |
Posted By: Rob
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 11:54am
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nice.love the lake?pic.
can you shoot as many buf's as you want ?
and I once saw a fella carve up an eagle sculpture out of wood with a chainsaw but....Wow adds a new dimension to butchering...not that I would try that tho... ------------- A true measure of a man is not how he act's when thing's are going well.But how he act's when things are going Bad. R.S.G. |
Posted By: .303
Date Posted: November 07 2011 at 8:09am
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LOL the chainsaw was mainly for removing the horns but I cut along the brisket and the spine for the boys as they normally use an axe and they wanted to see if the saw would be quicker ;-) They were impressed LOL. The Mauser is my mates 450ASS (Adrian and Shayne Styles), he's Adrian BTW. I used my 2 SMLE's on the day the 45-70 and the 303, both took buff no worries at all.
------------- Amor patriae |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: November 07 2011 at 8:39am
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Whats really neat is that they are hunting in short pants and long sleeve shirt !!!! LOL!! If we went hunt like that down here for that attire ...the Mosquito would carry us away !!! LOL!!
------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: .303
Date Posted: November 07 2011 at 12:22pm
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LOL shorts and T-Shirt is ok here in the dry season, not a good idea in the wet. Like everything else in the NT the Mossies are the jumbo sized! The long shirt my mate wore was an effort to not get sun burnt (he live in a much cooler climate down in NSW).
------------- Amor patriae |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 9:59am
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i noted the shorts as well - here they would be bled out by the skeeters and tics before they found their prey ,
nice shooting , hope all that meat went to the hungry
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Posted By: .303
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 6:33pm
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You bet it did! Including me! Buffalo Curry is one of my wife's favourites I made when we got home LOL. Plenty of Ticks in Oz mate we must just be made from sterner stuff! ;-)
------------- Amor patriae |
Posted By: mauser98nut
Date Posted: November 21 2011 at 9:52am
| Liked the chainsaw idea ,you could start it and the BBQ about the same time for a quick supper. |
Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: November 23 2011 at 1:09am
| Ticks where I am carry all kinds of nasty and crippling diseases. I wear long pants with gaiters to keep the !)@##%!) things on the outside so I can pull them off. It's not unusual for me to pull a dozen or more off in early spring or later fall. I stop and check every few minutes just to get rid of them. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: November 23 2011 at 2:14am
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Yes, Lyme disease is no fun at all. I don't know if they have it in Oz at this time though. I have to ask. What's the story with the colt tied to the truck in the background? Appetizer for the Buff main course?  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: saffer
Date Posted: November 27 2011 at 5:09pm
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We get a tick here called a pepper tick. It is the size of ground black pepper. When these things get inside your trousers you have to boil the clothes to ensure they are dead as they can stay dormant until you wear your favourite hunting gear the next season only to ge bitten again.
Tick bite fever (Rickettsia) is horrible. Had it twice. Give me a hangover any day compared to the headache from tick bite fever.
Nice buff by the way. Like the idea of the chainsaw. ------------- Not a complete idiot. Still missing a few parts. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: November 28 2011 at 8:48am
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that tick sounds smaller than our deer tick that causes the lymes , these are small - pin head size but pepper size would drive me nuts [thinking about my nutz ]
im thinking on boiling all my clothes tonight just thinking about it , eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww , i hate ticks and skeeters , least you have a chance with black flys and deer flys and even house flys - take aim and swat but ticks and skeeters [OK knats too] i hate em
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Posted By: saffer
Date Posted: November 28 2011 at 9:01pm
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When I went pig hunting, the pigs are covered in fleas and ticks. Yuck.
I was recently watching a National Geographic on the appalachian trail, showed those ticks clumped on stalks an warned of the Lyme disease. Gives one the shivers. ------------- Not a complete idiot. Still missing a few parts. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: November 28 2011 at 10:18pm
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Parts of the trail are only 5 minutes from here. We have several kinds of tick, but there are warnings every summer about light-colored long sleeves & pants to keep the little buggers visible. We even have to use tick repellant on pets that go outside in the winter here as it never gets really cold.
------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: .303
Date Posted: January 02 2012 at 5:56pm
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Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, I've had some issues logging in and been in the process of moving. The story behind the foal is that we chanced across him and his parents while hunting and the local boys decided that they wanted a horse. So the sprinted it down and put it in the back of their 4x4. ------------- Amor patriae |
Posted By: Dux-R-Us
Date Posted: June 22 2012 at 5:57am
What a great day afield to take 6 animals!! I am so envious. After my wife, Andrine, and I hunted in TCFNAR (The country formerly known as Rhodesia) I have taken to wearing shorts afield in Oklahoma, weather permitting. We have far fewer thorny plants. Wearing the shorts also has made me go really slow while still hunting. I use about a gallon of DEET, plus I am lucky in that I am not allergic to poison ivy. My friends think I am nuts (I am). We have found a place to hunt feral hogs for free (ranches now charging $300/day!!!) and I will be toting the .303 when we do that hunt. Do you think it necessary to have the pig sticker on the No4????? Kevin ------------- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx |
A square 10 wrote:Posted By: Moondog55
Date Posted: June 23 2012 at 10:15am
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Yes we have Lyme disease here in OZ, just not yet widespread and common. I wore shorts all the time when living in The Alice but further North I swapped to long pants despite the heat; I really hate ticks; I still have one embedded in my leg 30 years on |
Posted By: 303Guy
Date Posted: August 18 2012 at 12:54pm
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Pepper ticks are black in your parts? We had red ones. They're actually the first stage in the ticks life cycle. They have several and takes about two years each if not more. Hardy little boogers! They don't like insect spray much and kerosene kills then once they've latched on. A bit difficult to get them off the nutz! I had tick bit fever once when I was a preschooler. I don't remember much about the headache but I was told about it.
------------- 303Guy |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: August 18 2012 at 12:58pm
| West Nile is going around in some parts of the country here, Dallas as been hit bad ! |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: August 19 2012 at 5:43am
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"Pepper ticks are black in your parts? We had red ones." Here we call them "chiggers" or "redbugs". Oh wait, I'm being "Phylumaceously insensitive", I'm sorry, I meant to say "Trombiculidae-Americans" ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 12:52am
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wow - now we have to be PC to the bugs ??????
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 1:18am
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Nutz isn't it? I posted about "chiggers" on another forum & got a "written infraction advisory" because I was being "insensitive to others with regard to their ethnicity". I doubt if the Mod writing the infraction bothered to read the post because some id10t complaiined so they pulled the post & wrote me up. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: sayak
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 5:08am
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I am prejudiced against chiggers.... ..... and ticks and mosquitoes and other blood suckers. ------------- I support hard work, creativity, freedom, responsibility and truth |
Posted By: 303Guy
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 6:20am
I've been called all kinds of things - I'm still waiting to get offended.  But just out of interest, how does 'chigger' offend anyone? Unless they are a blood sucker or wait ... a parasite! That's it. You offended a parasite! But, "Phylumaceously insensitive"! It took me three days just to read the word. Ticks fall into a phylum of there own don't they? (I'm too lazy to look it up).
------------- 303Guy |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: August 21 2012 at 12:03am
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They are arthropods, relatives of insects, spiders & so on, a distant decendant of the old trilobites. The camping, trekking & outdoors forum this happened on is very "psuedo-conservative" but run by bleeding heart liberals pretending to be conservatives so they get the hunters & gun owners participation & more importantly donations! The conversation was about an unknown itching rash after a camping trip in the wilderrness & I was suggesting that based on the symptoms it might be caused by "chiggers". The discussion went on to try to id a chigger as the OP had no idea what a "chigger" was. At one point the question of color came up I said if it was black it wasn't a chigger as they are red. I guess the mod (who is desperately in need of more fiber in his diet) misread the term, thought it was a racial epithet & whipped off a long condemnation suggesting that I should "quit giving the impression that all gun owners are racially insensitive knuckle dragging drunken wife beaters!" I assured him that I had never beaten my wife, whilst raving blind drunk, which probably didn't help my cause.  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: August 21 2012 at 1:52am
You wouldn't dare! She'd kill you!! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: August 21 2012 at 3:33am
Yeah, probably! (That's why I drink in the first place) ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: August 21 2012 at 4:57am
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".....They are arthropods, relatives of insects, spiders & so on, a distant decendant of the old trilobites.........."
there ya go again with the dispariging remarks , i agree with ya , but , geez , think of the the poor caveman adds - someones bound to get offended
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: August 21 2012 at 6:22am
Oohh! You went & dun it now! There was actually a series of History Channel "documentaries" on pre-historic man where they were referring to "cavemen" (& presumably cave women as well, so I don't get called a sexist  ) where they were pronouncing the term as "Cromannyon", not "Cro-Magnon".It just gets beyond silly, remember when the pronounciation of Uranus was changed from ur-anus to urine us? bloody daft!
------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: August 21 2012 at 8:23am
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thin skinned buggers all of them , let them eat cake ........er , worms or somethin
was listening to a discussion of the 'class of 2016' this morning , interesting what they do not know , have never heard of , grew up with/know nothing about , and what they take for granted because of it , got little to no historic perspective at all as its no longer taught in schools
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Posted By: aradoAR234
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 3:18am
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I wish I Had some pics to post, but my Buff hunting days were over 30 years back. That was before the BTEC programme, which the short sighted NT, government used to decimate the Buffalo herds. I used to hint out at A place called Whitestone,around Corroboree ( on the Mary river) and behind Lake bennet downs near the Adelaide river. I used a couple of Enfields, an M17 in 30.06, and my much lamented P14 303, plus a jungle carbine, No4 rifle etc. I was only ever a meat hunter, and did not ever bother with horns, although some people used to bag a bull and leave the carcass to rot. Got my fair share of wild pigs as well, plus lots of feral cats, and managed to knock down brumbies on occasion, but always felt a little unsettled at shooting a horse. Had my best hunting ever, in the top end, so your photos bought back some instant memories. I fell from grace pretty bad by shooting a Croc one time, but have little regrets over that one; I've always considered myself the endangered species on that occasion. I'll never go back up there again, as I prefer to remember it it the was....cheers 
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Posted By: Von Gruff
Date Posted: October 20 2015 at 8:00pm
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Those are some great pics and show a very successful day out. I was in Au from 74 till 79 then 81 till 87 but never got to hunt buff and regret it to this day. I have a nice 400 Lee Speed (near full length 405 Win) that would be just the ticket for them. ------------- Von Gruff The ability to do comes with doing. Exodus 20:1-17 Acts 4:10-12 |