1st Tahr [emoji238][emoji16][emoji106]
First up cheers to @Mooseman and @257weatherby for the info on my plan A
, but due to the weather last week couldn't make it in there , hopefully i can get up there next month if doc hasn't wiped them out .
So headed to plan b ,a bit more local.
Beep beep beep the alarm clock sounded, 3am and rain pouring down on roof [emoji31] but quickly remembered no milking for me this am and quickly got out of bed ,
With the ute all loaded with gear ect. the night before it was a quick coffee and a bowl full of weetbix and i was on the road ,
Two hours later was at the bros to pick him up and another coffee and another hour drive we were finally on the hill .
Wasn't looking promising as it was patchy drizzle and the fog was as thick as sage ,
But once we got out past the front faces it was clear as , amazing when its like that .
After hiking along a top ridge and stopping to glass down guts ect.
We had just sat down to glass down another buffy gut ,
then i smelt something funky, bare in mind this is the 1st time ive got to look for tahr , couldn't put my finger on what the smell was , but a definitely a animal like a cross between boar , stag , and goat ?? Anyway went down bluff for a better sniff i spose and seen a heap of small droppings like id never seen before either ,
they were fresh and im no bloody rocket scientist but said to the bro , must be tahr sign and they're CLOSE !
And sure enough after carefully carrying on along the ridge top we looked down to a saddle and bugger me there they were, a good mob of at least 20 right on the grassy saddle grazing, sleeping or playing ,
We quickly closed the gap to about 150m before tussocks thinned out and ran out of cover and got into good shooting position .
I lined up a nice looking close 1 , was spoilt for choice !
BOOM!! ....... THWACK !!!
then all hell broke loose tahr running left right and center , shot felt good but in the commotion could tell which 1 was my target .
Watched them run off in binos about 200m then one dropped , phew !
Yeeha 1st tahr , got down there was a nice nanny , no big trophy but may as well be to me !
Gutt and big carry out whole ! Seen a couple more groups on way out where fog had cleared as well ,Bloody awsome day just wish id had a proper camera to get some good photos .https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4f1405240b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...069e970e04.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...58f9d917ea.jpg
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