New Aussie Traditional Bowhunting Venture - Stikbow Hunter eMagazine

[gundy]

The Nov/Dec 2008 issue of Stibow hunter is available for download!

Thanks to those who have contributed to this issue.  

Enjoy...

www.stikbowhunter.com

   

[Benny Nganabbarru]

You beauty!

[Benny Nganabbarru]

To the top...

November / December 2008 now available for download at  www.stikbowhunter.com  .

Happy reading!

[j yenney]

Makes me wish I would have spent more time hunting during the year and a half of living down under. Great Job

Thankyou,

JY

[non-typical]

Wow...very well done!

[Paul Mattson]

Just printed out a copy.  Ben, I enjoyed reading about your Goat hunt.  Are they the same one's that you will be going after soon?

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Yep, Paul, the same goats. It's a love / hate relationship with that place, as the goats are way too abundant, but the so is the heat! But, it's worth it...

[Kingwouldbe]

Ben, you want to know whats amazing!!!!


I can smell your goats through my computer lol     .

God made Goats and Hogs for Trad Bow hunters.

You guy's are the "Down Under Dudes" right on.

[deermaster1]

i have a feeling im gonna be looking foward to each and every issue!  thanks!

[Al Kidner]

Good job Gundy. Disc is in the mail,


AK.

[Jim Boettcher]

Gundy, top notch site you put together. Thanks Jim

[AndyTheCornbread]

I just read the magazine. Very cool, looks like a lot of work went into it.

Question. I see a lot of guys with pigs in this magazine and other sites on the net down there in Australia but I don't hear anything about how you guys cook them up. Do you guys not eat them or is how you all prepare them just such common knowledge that no one seems to mention doing it?

[BenBow]

I REALLY enjoy this. Thanks

[gundy]

Andy, we do eat them, but due to some disease, we have to be careful.

I have only eaten young pigs that have been shot in a location where they have been feeding off of crop, as they seem to be clean and very tatsy as opposed to their outback brethren.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

G'day Andy,

Some Aussies do eat some of the pigs they shoot, but are very selective in doing so, being more inclined to eat younger ones.

But most of the time, Aussies - even the ones who do eat pigs they shoot - will just leave them to be eaten by the native wildlife (or other pigs).

Caution must be exercised when checking a pig for its culinary suitability over here, but this isn't too difficult.

The difference between hunting in Australia and hunting in the USA is that we are basically attempting to either eradicate or limit the growth of feral species only, whereas you guys are managing native animal populations. As such, we don't have the same recovery laws - also, sometimes the environment and climate we're in makes recovery difficult or impossible.

The Aussie deer hunters treat deer very differently, with it being utilised fully even though they are feral too (they do live in more temperate parts of the continent).

Here's a link to my camel thread where I wrote a little more on this topic:

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=040728

Cheers,

Ben

[AndyTheCornbread]

What diseases do the pigs carry and how do you tell if they have it or not? This is very interesting stuff.

I was in Darwin in 1997 and got to go to the Outback. To hot for me to live there but it was an amazing place. I was in the Marines at the time and we had an R&R port call there in Darwin for a week. I would love to go back and see it again some day not in the middle of your summer which is when I was there before    I'd love to shoot a camel, that would be a riot!

[Benny Nganabbarru]

G'day Andy, we've got Marine Hornets playing with our Hornets here at present.