A little weekend trip bush..

Andy the Aussie

Andy the Aussie

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Spent the weekend away mostly trying to regain some sanity but also fired a few shots...the place I frequent was HARD in drought during my last visit in April....now...well in 30 years I have never seen it so wet !!!!

At the hut, my mate's stopgap truck and my own TLC...



Looking up the hill behind....it is a tough walk first thing in the morning !!!



Creek up (I have seen it higher right after a storm - but here it has dropped lots already) ...



A sow up on the mountainside...



and a cranky little boar...



 
Beautiful countryside Andy, thanks for the pics.
What did you have on you, the HRLM?
 
Nice pics, thank you. Those hogs are pretty good eating too. Just cook them real good. Cant take any chances with those wild ones.
 
Thanks all, this is in the New England area of NSW. I grew up about an hour south of this place and have walked it in it's entirety. No wild hog eating for us, the stinking things carry all manner of nasties so they get left where they drop. To eat one here you need to pen it for a few weeks (illegal to do) and feed it up a bit on grain, but it still does not deal with the worst of the bugs (Leptospirosis and Q Fever are about here). We also cannot recover all the deer that must be shot here but we do get out great deal of that out, motivation I guess :D

Another mate was heading up there on the weekend but he spoke to the manager and they have had almost two more inches of rain since the weekend and it is just not worth it. I expect a good season there early next year if the weather keeps up !!! Going to head out into the far west of NSW next month for a week or so to chase hogs again and a different species (Chital/Axis) of deer.

All the above pics were taken with my new hunting camera (Nikon1V1) as opposed to the usual DSLR. I am still getting the hang of it.
 
rcb2000 said:
What did you have on you, the HRLM?
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.... yep. HRLM walking around but in the bag back at camp there was a FFBM, BWM, ASH1 and B4. When it came time to getting some firewood diced up I was not stuck for choices... ;)
 
Beautiful country. Stupid question time, what is the paracord through the front sling swivel's purpose? Nice tusks on that little boar by the way.
 
dman62 said:
Beautiful country. Stupid question time, what is the paracord through the front sling swivel's purpose? Nice tusks on that little boar by the way.
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... no such thing as a stupid question mate... ;) That is hootchie cord, it is pretty much Venetian Blind cord in OD green, so much thinner than 550 cord. The loop is an old hunters trick and throw back to the days of wood stocks with the big angry threaded swivel studs screwed into the wood, with age and hard use they can eventually just pull out of the stock. If it is over your shoulder at the time and the rear stud goes the rifle mostly just drops butt down, if it is the front and most likely stud that goes the rifle can take a long arc and comes down barrel/optic first. In the mountains either is bad (as the rifle vanishes away perhaps for good) but the simple loop can 1/2 or more the risk. These days of synthetic stocks and machine threaded studs with a base nut on the other side have mostly removed the risk, but all my hunting slings have had that loop since I was about 12, it's a tough habbit to break.
 
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