The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#31 Post by bear74 » Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:31 pm

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Nutgrass wrote:Don't forget to smile :biggrin:
Yeah, it does make a difference. :mrgreen:
you must have some serious influence in the scrub Jeff, I think there is actually several pictures where that young 25 year old bloke is cracking a smile :shock:
that cook up looks like the bomb too.
who took the pics and with what cameras?
Rod what are the specs on that recurve mate?
what are the specs on all them bows actually?
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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#32 Post by Nutgrass » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:32 pm

The pictures I took were taken with either a Canon 5d with a canon 24-105 lens, or with the Canon 40d with a Tamron 18-270 lens.
As for the bows.
The Gringa mistress is 53 @ 28. She is one of Rod's deflex reflex designs.
The Gringa Red Belly black is 60 @ 28. One of Rod's hill style designs.
The Stikbow Samber stick is 53 @ 28. One of Jeff's (stikbows) hill style design.

Shafts I used, the pretty crested ones early in the trip were Douglas fur, hand crafted by Wallace woods for me & crested & finished by myself. They were tipped with 145 grain Tusker concordes. With an over all weight of 730-750 grains.

The shafts with the chanteuse & purple feathers were either tulip oak hand planned by me, or towards the last day or so they were Oregan shafts off the shelf from tradbits.
Both tulip oak & Oregan were sporting 190 grain ribteks up front & were most likely assembled by Jeff as he does a better & quicker job than me :biggrin:
Tulip oak finished weight was in around 750-770 grains & the Oregan weighed in at 730-760 grains.
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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#33 Post by Gringa Bows » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:51 pm

The recurve is 56in 57 lb @28.......

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#34 Post by Stickbow Hunter » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:59 pm

bear74 wrote:you must have some serious influence in the scrub Jeff, I think there is actually several pictures where that young 25 year old bloke is cracking a smile :shock:
I had to try hard but I think the smiles are an improvement. :mrgreen: :lol:

Most of our camera gear was Canon. :biggrin: I was using a 40D with a 17-40 f4 L lens. The photos of me with game were taken with that combo by Gary. I also took the meal photos and the last photo in Gary's posts of Craig with his white nanny. Craig used my Canon G9 point & shoot camera. I took the photos of Gary with his big billy and his first good boar with his 40D.

My bow was one of my longbows. It was 59# @ 26.5" and had bamboo lams. The bow I shot my first sow with was the 'GRINGA' bow Rod made me. It was 60# @ 26" and had caramelised bamboo lams.

The arras I used this time were made from bamboo shafts from the ebay fella in China. To up their weight to around the 750 grain mark that I usually shoot I used a 190 grain field point and put a 5 degree taper on it so it fitted my 190 Ribtek broadheads. This gave me 315 grains up front with a FOC of 15.25%. They flew nice and proved to be very tough.

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#35 Post by Nephew » Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:41 pm

My bow is "Milestone", a 64#@28" "Hill-style" Gringa (of course! :wink: ) and my arras are the same bamboo shafts Jeff used, but using 145grn & 190grn Ribbies( I also had some of the same shafts with 160grn Blackstumps, but didn't end up using them). I like these bamboo shafts a lot, they are very tough indeed, but I will be employing Jeffs technique of tapering field points and gluing ribbies onto them for added weight on my next hunt, they are just a tad light.
I like using Jeffs G9. I'm no photographer yet even I can turn out a decent shot with it.
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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#36 Post by Keith Lee » Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:34 pm

Well done guys, two nice boars Gary well done.

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#37 Post by chally » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:32 pm

Dad and Rod you could both suck start a Kenworth truck!! You two are shocking!! But Rod you buy far are the worst I have heard since my Pa was alive!! :lol:

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#38 Post by Gringa Bows » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:50 pm

Ay,how would you know ,you had ear plugs in :lol: :lol: yeah yeah i know i may snore a little bit.... :mrgreen:

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#39 Post by Stickbow Hunter » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:53 pm

chally wrote:Dad and Rod you could both suck start a Kenworth truck!!
Really! :oops: :mrgreen:
chally wrote:But Rod you buy far are the worst I have heard since my Pa was alive!! :lol:
I'll agree with that one. :lol:

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#40 Post by Nephew » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:28 am

Snore? Jeff snoring is one thing( one big, loud, thing!) but the big fella decided he was gonna camp in my room out there, and I lasted about 3 hours before I had to find alternative sleeping arrangements! At one stage I even yelled at him! :surprised: True story! :lol:
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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#41 Post by Gringa Bows » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:32 am

That wasn't me ,that was just echo's from Jeff :roll:

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#42 Post by UPTHETOP » Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:57 pm

Great story and photos fellas, very lucky to get so much to ground a hunt to remember for shore, congradulations.

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#43 Post by Gringa Bows » Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:46 pm

oh yeah my camera is an olympus Sp-565uz

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#44 Post by hazard » Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:46 pm

What a 'Cracker" of a trip!!

Well done Lads, you did us proud and Nephew I must say its me that's envious!! :wink:
Nephew wrote:Snore? Jeff snoring is one thing( one big, loud, thing!) but the big fella decided he was gonna camp in my room out there, and I lasted about 3 hours before I had to find alternative sleeping arrangements! At one stage I even yelled at him! :surprised: True story! :lol:
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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#45 Post by Nutgrass » Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:34 pm

Thanks for the comments guys. I find myself still running this trip through my head 8) Some great moments both Hunting & none hunting 8) 8) 8)
RABBITS (karen) wrote:NUTGRASS >>----> Nobody knows where he came from, & nobody knows how to get rid of him.
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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#46 Post by hazard » Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:51 pm

Hey Nutgrass
Like yer new Avatar :biggrin:

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#47 Post by Nutgrass » Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:55 pm

Thanks mate, It was proud Moment 8) Not sure who was more excited, Rod or me :biggrin: I think he was at first, I don't think it sunk in until I calmed down from the adrenaline & running the shot through my head a million times 8)
So many good pics from this trip for avatars :biggrin: Might have to keep rolling them over for a while :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
RABBITS (karen) wrote:NUTGRASS >>----> Nobody knows where he came from, & nobody knows how to get rid of him.
Shooters get to 50m to shoot, but only a hunter gets inside 20m to hunt.

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#48 Post by Nephew » Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:00 pm

I'm surprised the big fella didn't snot ya, rather than shake your hand, for getting a boar like that! He called me a b'stard when I got mine, it it was only a little 'un! :wink: :lol:
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#49 Post by Nutgrass » Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:03 pm

A couple of pics I must have missed 8)
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RABBITS (karen) wrote:NUTGRASS >>----> Nobody knows where he came from, & nobody knows how to get rid of him.
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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#50 Post by Gringa Bows » Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:10 pm

You Da Man ,Nutgrass :biggrin:

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#51 Post by bigbob » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:21 pm

Love that montage at the end of the shots nutty! Again -great hog!
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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#52 Post by Gringa Bows » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:37 pm

I was just lookin at that pic of the four of us at Bolon,we make Jeff look like a Hobbit hey :mrgreen: :lol:

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#53 Post by bigbob » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:39 pm

LB rod 55 wrote:I was just lookin at that pic of the four of us at Bolon,we make Jeff look like a Hobbit hey :mrgreen: :lol:
:shock: :shock: :shock: :surprised: :surprised: :surprised: :lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#54 Post by Stickbow Hunter » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:00 pm

You sure had a trip to remember Nutgrass!
LB rod 55 wrote:I was just lookin at that pic of the four of us at Bolon,we make Jeff look like a Hobbit hey :mrgreen: :lol:
I don't know what a 'Hobbit' is but I guess you would mean something derogatory like it is short, fat and has no neck. :lol:

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#55 Post by Gringa Bows » Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:10 pm

No mate,hobbits are loveable little critters just like you :biggrin:

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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#56 Post by Stickbow Hunter » Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:26 pm

LB rod 55 wrote:No mate,hobbits are loveable little critters just like you :biggrin:
:shock: :oops: :lol:

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#57 Post by Brett Finger » Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:59 pm

LB rod 55 wrote:No mate,hobbits are loveable little critters just like you :biggrin:
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Re: The trip to Cunnamulla September 2012

#58 Post by rodlonq » Fri Oct 19, 2012 9:54 am

Great write up and photos as usual Nutgrass. Look like you blokes had a ball. Congrats on the PBs too mate, well done.

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#59 Post by adam » Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:49 am

Great trip and photos lads, well done to all.
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