Fitzroy WA
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Fitzroy WA
Well we are back and what a trip that was 40/50 pigs taken.We have so much photo and video footage that it is going to take a while to sort them and write a bit of a yarn.Greg never fished for Barra before and caught 5/6,,Greg managed to get a ride in a helicopter from the property next door and footage was taken of me missing a pig not once but 3 times at i reckon 200 mtrs but it turns out on video less than 15mtrs how imbarassing is that,nice clear footage too.One hylight was a meteor exploding in the distance into two large pieces and leaving two very visable clouds in the sky.That would have caused a large sonic boom or an explosion directly beneath.Look for an articule in the next Bowhunter mag (i think) by Michael (?) name excapes me.A compound and longbow shooter.This guy was REAL keen,up before daylight and crawling around out on the plains on his belly till hunger and lack of water drove him back(high 30,s) and wacking quite a few boars to boot.Wanted me to go with him but you know i didnt want to show the young fella up did i and besides plenty of pigs without dehydrating out there as the esky didnt have wheels and i could have lost it.So it will be a while but the photos are coming.
Slackshot aka Gary Case
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Wow , wow and more wows cant wait for the write up and pics. That meteor would be a one of a kind chance that most of us will never experience as well
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Good to hear you are back safe and that you got amongst the pigs. How many arras has Toz got left? I look forward to the tales and some photos.
Jeff
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"48 weeks to go" that's what I'm thinking,!!! until we head back next year.it was a great trip with a few lessons to improve on for next year.well the arrow situation is that I lost or broke about 10 arrows and a few heads as well but not too bad for the quality boars we were hunting.the trend was set on the 1st boar on the 1st hunt when a about 100kg fella turned on me after a couple of arrows had upset him!! I didnt venture too far from a climbable tree whilst trying to finish him. Good news for the new bows we made was that MINE worked very well with 9 of my 13 falling to it.the other 4 to my trusty recurve.plans are afoot for next years model already with the addition of some carbon fibre up the core? more to come...
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Sounds like ya had a lot of fun mate.
Jeff
I'm lookin' forward to it!toz wrote:more to come...
Jeff
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So am IStickbow Hunter wrote:Sounds like ya had a lot of fun mate.I'm lookin' forward to it!toz wrote:more to come...
Jeff
Shooters get to 50m to shoot, but only a hunter gets inside 20m to hunt.RABBITS (karen) wrote:NUTGRASS >>----> Nobody knows where he came from, & nobody knows how to get rid of him.