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Trad Gang Highlights => Highlights 2008 => Topic started by: Benny Nganabbarru on February 19, 2008, 05:36:00 AM
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January's Gascoyne Region (Western Australia) feral goat hunt:
Tony Jensen, using a 55lb Hoyt Gamemaster
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Matt Wright, using a 70lb Black Widow PLX "Zebrawood"
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Me, using a 70lb Howard Hill Redman
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Me, with a 68lb Black Widow SAIII
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What a great hunt. You fellers almost have too much fun over there.
Todd
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Very cool pics and thanks for sharing. How do you guys cook a goat? We been known to barbecue one like a pig over here.
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Excellant kills Ben! Thanks for sharing! I can't wait to get over there and hunt some of those critters! ;) Well done mate! :thumbsup: :clapper:
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Great pics, hopefully I'll make it there someday. :thumbsup:
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What a neat animal.
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awesome Ben congrats! those Goats are just awesome to hunt with the bow, Nige and i are gonna be out there September next year we should try meet up :campfire:
that Silvertip of your's cant be far of arriving in the land down under
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Hey Ben those are some great pictures, looks like you had an awesome hunt! Congrats!
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Ben. There is a snowstorm going on as I speak here in Nova Scotia. Man I envy you. Awesome pics and awesome goats for you and your friend.
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Thanks, lads!
Andy - the Silvertip should be getting closer! I'm stoked, because I've tracked down some wooden arrows to use! We should definitely meet-up when you and Nige are over (we'll see what the pigs are doing, eh?).
Cheers,
Ben
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Goat fest 2008 :goldtooth:
That my friends it to cool
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nice pics thanks
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Hi Ben, great pictures and thanks for sharing. That looks like heaps of fun. Were all those taken on the same hunt?
Do you ever have confrontations with any of the deadly snakes and spiders that abound on your big island?
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Sounds like a plan Ben ill give you a shout closser to the time and we'l sort something out, i really be up for that. You got any free time off in september :)
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you got sights on that bow? :scared: thats different lookin. lots of kills... neat
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G'day Lads!
These goats were taken during the same hunt, Ryan. We do encounter snakes and spiders, but the most bothersome creatures on this hunt were the ants.
Yeah, Andy, we'll sort something out for sure, but my school break is a week in October. But there're still weekends.
Tony had a sight on his Hoyt recurve to start with. It was his first hunt with a recurve. So he shot those first two goats of his with sights. But, after hanging out with bad company during the evening target practice sessions, he decided to take his sights off and have a go, which he did with excellence, nailing that last big goat of his.
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glad ta hear he took the sights off and shot trad.
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A couple of weeks ago, Matt Wright snuck in and shot this 75kg boar at 5m range. The 820-grain Goldtip/Ribtek arrow zipped right through, and the pig made 10m only before going down. His bow's a 66", 70lb @ 29" Black Widow PLX "Zebrawood".
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Today we headed out real early to a swamp that still has a fair bit of water in it. It had no ferals on it, so we began walking cross-country to another swamp. Along the way, we found a mob of eight pigs rooting around in the damp, soft sand. Off with the boots, a perfect stalk, two warning shots over her back, and finally a double-lung shot (all at 10m) put this sow down after a 60m dash. I was using 704-grain CX350 Heritage arrows and Tusker Delta broadheads. The bow is my 64", 78lb @ 29" Black Widow PLX "Bocote".
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Later on, Matt did an amazing bit of stump-shooting with his judo-tipped arrow, hitting this termite mound perfectly with a 45m shot.
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Congratulations guys! Terrific pics, thanks for sharing. :clapper:
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Ben,
Ive had goat before, and other than 'cabrito' which is very young goat, I've found it tough and chewy no matter how its prepared.
Then the other night I saw "Battle: Goat" on Iron Chef America and got the hankering to try some of those recipes..that stuff looked good!
I don't think you eat your pigs...do you consume the goats? What recipes do you like.
I have a hunting spot that is close to a goat farm, and the guy's animals are constantly getting out of the fence and I am thinking of taking one if I get a chance, as long as it doesnt have a pink ribbon around its neck. :biglaugh:
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Ray, it would be my semi-educated guess that a farm-raised goat would be better eating than something "free range"...so you should be in good shape.
As a youth in western Kansas, barbequed goat figured prominently in our after-harvest blow-out.
We would wrap the quartered goats in damp cheesecloth, and bury them in a pit, between layers of corrugated metal, for 24 hrs. Kansas doesn't have mesquite, so we used old "hedge" posts (osage). Coals on the bottom and top, covered with dirt, and some old pipe stuck through the dirt to allow some O2 to keep things smoldering..... :bigsmyl:
It would be good if CK could possibly chime in on this, as he seems to have experience with the free-range goats in Tejas.... :campfire:
By the way, cabrito is a real treat....
Kevin
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G'day Ray! You're right, I don't eat pigs for reasons of my upbringing (but neither do most Aussie hunters eat the pigs they shoot). As for the billy goats, we're too hot and bothered, and they're just too tough, for us to dress 'em and eat 'em. Younger ones are much better, and we have shot one for the frying pan. As for recipes, I recall that it was just marinated in tomato sauce, with lots of salt and pepper, and then fried up with rice. It was very nice, and everyone enjoyed it, even though mine had a bit of sand in it, sadly! The station manager gets some beautiful goat and sheep sausages (the sort you eat with crackers) made up - they're delicious! Sometimes there might even be a bit of Skippy thrown into the mixture.
Kevin, I think that the kinds of arid shrubbery that our feral goats eat (and decimate) adds a nice flavour to the meat.
And Ray, if the escapee has 40" horns, and is wearing a ribbon, remember that you can always snip the ribbon off for the photo! :goldtooth:
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The eating of pigs and goats varies greatly on their geographic living as in Aussie outback the food sources vary greatly.Pigs taken in forested areas are fine tablefare. from the snow bound forets of the Victorian High country to the Hills of Texas QLD i have, and will continue to eat pork and wild goat. As much as I hate to leave any game wasted, i enjoy trying new cooking techniques with all wild game.
however, the feral pigs of the western states of Oz can be worm/disease riddled and as such, extra care must always be taken with the cooking. they can be eaten....just extra care should be taken with preparation.
the only time i ever eat pork is when taken from the wild.
slow roasted or stewed goat/pig round the fire is one of the wilds great pleasures.
nice hog there Ben!!!!
cheers
ben
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good on ya, Matt and Ben.
looking forward to see how that Silvertip goes on the pigs when it finally gets there. :thumbsup:
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Andy, Friday's the big day, hopefully! I'll be putting pictures up for sure! It's already a long week!
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great pics.
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Looks like ya'll had a boat load of fun! :thumbsup:
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Wow, looks like you guys would get worn out with target opportunities like that...it's a tough job, but someone has to do it!
Hope we can find that many critters when Whip and I visit cobber Al next summer, sure am looking forward to seeing your country.
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Ben,
Great hunting.. Thank for sharing the pics and the story. Love the country in the pics.
Also thank you for PM'ing me the pics of your donkey hunts.. Way too cool. I have one saved on my screen saver.
John III
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The weekend adventure that still has me on a natural high! A sow taken near the Daly River, by wading into a safe swamp. An 80lb Silvertip, with a STOS broadhead on Douglas Fir did the the trick.
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Great effort Ben as always.
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Those goats look like a lot of fun to hunt!! They are nice looking also especially those horns. I have a couple of goats here on my place but they don't look like that. What kind of goats are they? Mine are here to keep the grass short! Great photos Ben.
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Hi Mark, the goats are a ragtag mixture of breeds. They were initially brought to the Outback by merchants following goldrushes. The land and climate suited them well, and they went feral and bred-up into quite a devestating environmental problem.
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good going guys!!!looks like ya had fun
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Here's a photo of a young brumby I stalked and took the day before I got the pig. The trophy photo isn't that great, so I'll just share the live version, and a picture of me near where the brumby crashed.
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Dont know if I would wanna be wadin aound in Australia or not! Yall got some big mean lizards down there.
J
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We evaluated this swamp (and the other one) pretty carefully. Based on all the wildlife out in it, the shallow depth, the distance from the river, the lack of deep, dark parts, the lack of reeds, and the lack of tracks or slides, we decided there was very little chance of a lizard being there.
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LOL! This southern boy still be so nervous if a bream jumped in the water behind me i'd have a coronary! LOL!
Great pics
J
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Nice pic's Ben, How many leaches did you get suckin on you?
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No leaches up here. Well, I haven't found any yet. I think the crocodiles and king browns eat them all!
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I got one on me when i was out at Howard springs when i lived in Darwin.
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Someone give hamish a cup of concrete to harden him up :banghead:
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:coffee: arrrr that's better :D
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are there snakes in that water
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Hey! G'day Luke! Good to hear that you're at least frightening some pigs! Is your new Black Widow on the way yet?
Ian, I s'pose there might be the odd snake in the water. Tony nearly trod on a 1.5m king brown at the edge, and I tapped it gently on its tail with my bow tip to make it scoot away.
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Awesome pictures, sure looks like a blast!
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Ben,
Where abouts are you in the NT?
The first pics look quite South but the last ones are obviously in the tropics!
I spent a couple of years in Alice but did NO hunting.
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G'day Tom!
Mate, good to see a Tolstoy reader! I'm halfway through W&P, and loving it!
I'm in Katherine, but those goats were in WA.
Cheers,
Ben
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Ben, yes he was a genius!!
I see, I thought there were too a few too many eucalypts to be in the Central Desert.
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Just the chap from yesterday's yesterday, already on PowWow:
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Ah there Ben!
It just sucks to be you hey mate?
I had plans for a camel hunt this winter but I still may get out there before it gets too hot.
Lovely bows and great pics!
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as always Ben, done yourself proud! But Tolstoy ? W & P ? Probably a recurve shooters thing. Longbow shooters prefer Dostoyevsky ....and compound shooters...if they could read...it'd be mills and boon .....
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Mate, one of my other favourites is "The Brothers Karamazov", by Dostoevsky! But then, I do have a couple of longbows lurking about...
Adam, all the best with those camels!
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Great stuff mate!
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well done, beautiful place !
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Originally posted by Ben Kleinig:
Mate, one of my other favourites is "The Brothers Karamazov", by Dostoevsky! But then, I do have a couple of longbows lurking about...
Adam, all the best with those camels!
Best book ever written, hands down.
The crescendo in the courtroom at the end was INTENSE!
Anyway, nice shooting.
How long can you spend shooting a target with that thing?
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About thirty arrows before I start getting tired.
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky certainly cover all the angles on the big questions.
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Matt Wright knocked this young boar over yesterday; Black Widow PLX "Zebrawood", 70lbs @ 29" / GoldTip arrows with Zwickey / Ribtek broadheads.
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That's great Ben. You guys look like you have some fun over there.
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A small success enjoyed today:
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Congrats :thumbsup: to all
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Hey Ben, Congrats! Looks like you fellas have a blast on the other side of the world. How does a yankee from the U.S. get in on that fun? Keep the pics coming, Bill
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Thanks, Bill! PM sent, mate. If you come over, just make sure you bring those funny teeth that you had in one film, as it'll help you enjoy and appreciate good old Chad Morgan singing the world's finest country music on the loooooooooong drives!
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Man I would love to do that. I am jealous. Congrats and it looks like a blast
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nice job mate :thumbsup:
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Awesome Ben!
Man you are one killing machine! Keep it up!
Aloha Ryan!
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Good on ya Ben, What's the lightest poundage you would consider for Hogs and Goats?
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G'day Carl, and welcome to TradGang. I'm only guessing, but I'd say 40lbs would do the job on most goats, as well as small pigs. But really, I think an Aussie bowhunter is best suited with something between 55lbs and 65lbs, for all game except buffalo (and maybe camel). Arrows should be at least 600 grains, and 2-bladers only, if big boars might be a target. What do you currently shoot?
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Looks like some great hunts Ben :thumbsup: Good friends and lots of game what better way is there to spend a couple days!
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Matt Wright got this fellow a couple of weekends ago:
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