Thread: NT Hunt

My Aussie firearms permit and B709 finally turned up in the mail today. Been onto the NT Police by phone a few times panicking as the first copy went awol in the mail. The NT Police have been really helpful and are good to deal with.

I'm taking 2 rifles again, Tikka 300wm and Sako 85 375 h & h and 5kgs of handloads, it's a fair bit of paperwork but worth it.

This year I should be able to bag a 100 inch plus buff, shit loads of Donkeys, Horses and Pigs with the odd "Wild dog". We have approx 500 hundy thousand acres to roam around so never a dull moment. Picked up a new Canon camera yesterday so will give that a good workout. The wild life on this cattle station is amazing and hospitality is great.

It takes approx 2 1/2 days travel from Auckland, overnight Sydney, overnight Darwin then 4 hours by road to Katherine and then 2 hours inland to the station, and usually bloody hot to boot. This is my 3rd year and basically have a spot booked every year around August/September.

I try and break my first years record of 79 animals in 5 days, last year it was around 40 animals simply because I spent a few days getting a good trophy Scrub Bull. There's a fair bit of night hunting done as well targeting Pigs, bloody great with thermal gear.

The 375's going to get a good workout on this trip and with any luck the shoulders going to hack the pace