Going to OZ

[Michael Pfander]

This is a shout out to all the Aussies.  My wife has a conference in Alice Springs from 4/12 to 4/18.  How hard will it be to hunt starting from there for the week she is busy?  What I am asking is it worth my time and trouble to bring my bow for this trip.  We plan to travel after she's done so I would have to take along for all of that.
MAP

[Al Kidner]

Gee mate... Id hate to be the bearer of bad news but there is not much game at all in Alice, well maybe Camels but you'd have to seek some permission and in that part of Oz mate... she is pretty darn remote and its not uncommon at all for tourists to go missing and never be seen again in that part of the world. It really is very remote and one could walk for weeks without seeing even a fence line.

Maybe Ben will chime in as he has spent time in the red centre. Are you sure its in Alice?

[Michael Pfander]

Yes.  She is part of the international range lands group.  They meet all over, where there are range lands to examine.  I had assumed that it was just a larger drier version of what we have around here.  The pics I have seen look a lot like the desert bighorn country in the southwest part of AZ.  Not as high as this or as deep.
MAP

[Stump Buster]

I've never heard of hunting opportunities in that region, but you could have one heck of a stumping/roving session!!!

[Roadkill]

While there grab a hundred or so ribteks.  You will get your money back.  I take some 125 or 145's.  They were less expensive but shipping was prohibitive

[Michael Pfander]

It would be nice to find a way to defray some of the expense.  I'll keep that in mind.
MAP

[drew4fur]

I live at Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park, which is about 500km southwest of Alice. I've not heard of any hunting opportunities in the region. Some of the area is large cattle stations, but the rest is Aboriginal Lands. There are some hunting opportunities up in the top end out of Darwin, and there are daily flights from Alice to Darwin; that being said I can't offer any recommendations.

As Trad Bowhunter says, it is VERY remote; in North America that often means great hunting, but in central oz, remote often means very dry parched lands where seeing one kangaroo a day is a pretty good achievement.

[mfc]

Plenty of camels ,should be donkeys to....try to get in touch with  www.deadcentreBow  hunters.org should get some tips there

[Nala]

I have always been fascinated with OZ.  I've wanted to go there for a long time and I'd love to hunt pigs there.  Supposedly they have some real TOADS down there with big ole cutters.

I was emailing back and forth with an Aussie a few years back and if I understood him right, you don't need a hunting license at all in Australia.  Finding a place and getting permission is the trick.  When I look at the maps or read about some of the hunting areas, I think it wouldn't be a big deal to rent a truck and head out from any of the big cities, but then I have to catch myself and remember that OZ is as big as the Continental US.  It might take a week or more to get to some of the hunting areas and that's if there's paved roads.  It sure would be a fun "road" trip though.

The last thing you have to keep in mind is that damn near everything that lives down there can kill your deader than a mackerel if you happen upon them.  Most of the 10 deadliest snakes in the world are there, funnel web spiders, salt water crocs that get 23 feet and weigh over a ton.  If you fancy a dip in the ocean, don't go out too far, Great White Sharks.  Even if you don't go far there's the Brown Box Jellyfish that's deadly as can be and even if you're in knee deep water you can still get lit up by the near microscopic jellyfish called IRICONJI.

So..the point of this....WATCH YOUR STEP and enjoy.

Nalajr

[Nala]

Oh, 1 more thing that I can't believe I forgot.  Some say that there are a couple of critters roaming about down there that are scientifically extinct or not believed to exist at all.

The first is the YOWIE....cousin to our Bigfoot.  Then there's the GIANT MONITOR LIZARD called MEGALANIA.

Fascinating place.

Nalajr

[centaur]

I was there last April, not hunting but doing tourist things. "Remote" is an understatement. We took a bus ride from there to Uluru, and might have seen two vehicles (and not one animal, except at station houses).  Huge cattle or sheep stations that make our ranches look very small by comparison, and miles and miles of miles and miles. It is quite a different world in the Red Centre.

[mfc]

You should try driving from Uluru through to the west Australian coast lol. .. Two or three fuel suppliers in near 1300 kilometres ... Or driving the caning stock route where you have to get 44 gallon drums dropped in the desert as you can't carry enough fuel ...2 of us spent 6 months driving from near Melbourne through the middle and up through the tropics and home ...I'd say  at least 1/2 of that trip was on dirt roads.
  I'm not to fussed by the snakes n spiders although there's an inbuilt genetic fear in us all....but them big water lizards, now that's another story .. 35 c every day minimum at night 29c water everywhere but yea can't go near it.....
We used a tin billy (pot) on a rope to get water so as to keep away from the edge, the misus wandered down with the billy and on her first toss into the lagoon it was swallowed , she needed a fair few glasses of wine that night...near an hour after the bucket theft you could still hear the beast chomping on the metal...... Or stuff like sleeping in swags( mattress in a canvas cover like a bi I bag) and waking up in the morning to see dingo tracks right around you're bed ... You have to put you're shoes in the swag or car or they will steal them.. Ahhh what fun, it'd just be great to keep driving

[mfc]

And yes except for hog deer there's no tags for ferals ( a game licence is $ 25 bucks a year). And starting from the big to the smal you have camel ,buffalo, ban tang castle, scrub Bulls , wild horses, donkeys, sambar deer,Russia deer, chital deer( axis I beleave to you) fallow deer hog deer, red deer, foxes rabbits feral cats pigs goats ... But  the only native you can hunt in most places is dingos
So again I'd get in touch with that Alice springs bow hunting group as there's a hell of a lot of camels between Alice and Uluru ..someone might help u out
I'd say you will be gob smacked by the countryside it's a stunning though bleak old place ..

Ps if you have Osiris email pop him a note , he might have some ideas

Enjoy

[mfc]

And yes except for hog deer there's no tags for ferals ( a game licence is $ 25 bucks a year). And starting from the big to the smal you have camel ,buffalo, ban tang castle, scrub Bulls , wild horses, donkeys, sambar deer,Russia deer, chital deer( axis I beleave to you) fallow deer hog deer, red deer, foxes rabbits feral cats pigs goats ... But  the only native you can hunt in most places is dingos
So again I'd get in touch with that Alice springs bow hunting group as there's a hell of a lot of camels between Alice and Uluru ..someone might help u out
I'd say you will be gob smacked by the countryside it's a stunning though bleak old place ..
Enjoy

[mfc]

You should try driving from Uluru through to the west Australian coast lol. .. Two or three fuel suppliers in near 1300 kilometres ... Or driving the caning stock route where you have to get 44 gallon drums dropped in the desert as you can't carry enough fuel ...2 of us spent 6 months driving from near Melbourne through the middle and up through the tropics and home ...I'd say  at least 1/2 of that trip was on dirt roads.
  I'm not to fussed by the snakes n spiders although there's an inbuilt genetic fear in us all....but them big water lizards, now that's another story .. 35 c every day minimum at night 29c water everywhere but yea can't go near it.....
We used a tin billy (pot) on a rope to get water so as to keep away from the edge, the misus wandered down with the billy and on her first toss into the lagoon it was swallowed , she needed a fair few glasses of wine that night...near an hour after the bucket theft you could still hear the beast chomping on the metal...... Or stuff like sleeping in swags( mattress in a canvas cover like a bi I bag) and waking up in the morning to see dingo tracks right around you're bed ... You have to put you're shoes in the swag or car or they will steal them.. Ahhh what fun, it'd just be great to keep driving

[Michael Pfander]

I haven't looked at this since I got back. My work schedule wouldn't let me go to Alice Springs with my wife.  I met her on the way back in Sydney and we flew to NZ.  Hooked up with a few Kiwi's, saw a lot of country, hiked to the top of the tallest waterfall on the north island, and resolved to go back again soon.

[mfc]

Different terrain but verry similar people..

[mfc]

Different terrain but verry similar people..