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Well that is another week away from the rat race over...!!! Left home on Friday the 7[SUP]th[/SUP] and got back on Valentine’s Day. Any week away from work is a good week (especially this time knowing what the next five weeks hold in store for me) and this was my first trip bush since a lightening three days in June last year !!!!
The only real complaint was the farking heat… several days over 40degsC and a couple with no breeze whatsoever, just sitting in the hut was hard work around 1pm !!! I did get some rather abusive e-mail from a good mate when I told him I was sweating away under a tree in the bush, seems he was a bit chilly or something there in NY…
I think he is just a bit soft…!!!
Normal routine was up at 4.45-5am, lightening breakfast (coffee and a tin of fruit or similar) and out before sunrise at 6.30. Hunt till 9-10ish and then back to the hut and sleep/eat/read etc till around 5pm and back out again. Most days (except the last when it was over overcast) it was still light well after 8pm.
The area I was in is also in the midst of a drought, the last good rain was the first week of Feb 2013 with a little more in Nov 13 !!!!!!! I will add some pics from last year for comparison as well.
Basically hunting deer but in reality it is just too early in the season for a trophy head and I have enough in the freezer for now so I left the does alone. I am back up here at the end of March so we shall see how things are then. Saw LOTS of deer, a good sign given over 1100 were shot off the property last year alone…!!! Pigs, now they do tickle my homicidal gene and we shoot each and every one we can, this is expected of us. I did see some BIG boars, but always just a bit too far away to take, one of the other guys took a sow close to 100kg that, is being processed into sausages.
So, some pics….
First afternoon out…
“The Zombie Express” as it is running around now (or was till the last day, more on that later)…
First little boar …
Second little boar, this one was actually a play stalk to see how close I could get, started out around 200yds away (looked MUCH bigger from there) and worked my way down to 30 yds past another smaller hog and two deer, all undisturbed till I fire the shot. When I walked to where he fell I funnily enough located another hog skeleton with an aluminium arrow laying there among the bones…!!!
Up the opposite side of the valley (Lexi, you may recognise this spot from the cellphone picture) from all the other pics so far, this morning started off nice and cool (with the cloud/mist rolling over a saddle) but soon turned into a completely still scorcher..!!
The remains of a hog shot up in here last year (I will also add last year’s pic for comparison of the place)…
Last year…
Back out the other side of the valley again, and up at one of the high points, spent the afternoon sitting over the dam to see what came down… in the end just a few does and fawns….
Now the hut sits just 150yds or so from the creek, one of the hottest afternoons I decided not to ride out anywhere and just relax on the verandah and what do I spy out near the creek….
… all four from the hut with four shots
And out on the very last afternoon as the cloud came over.
When the above was taken I was riding up to a spot around the other side of the hill in the right of the picture, about as far back as one can be on the place and almost as far from the hut. Sat out there for a couple of hours and set out for home (and to pack up) around 7.45pm. Rode 100 yards and the back end of the bike started feeling funny. Sure enough I had spiked a tyre and sure enough the repair kit was back at the hut … yes I can see you all rolling your eyes..!!!!!!!!! It would have taken me maybe two or three hours to walk back from here as not only is it way out the back of the place it is also one of the heist points on this property. Soooo…. I decided to see how far one could get as even if I walked I would not get the Toyota and trailer up there to recover the bike, so I started off and took the most direct (and steepest) track down. It was all fun and exciting as the back end obviously was not going to track well and was constantly trying to kick out. At one point I had to strop and cut the tube out of the chain/sprocket… oops…. long story short I made it down onto the creek flats safe enough and also managed to snot another hog on the way.
I then had probably an hour to walk home (all fat easy going however) and as I was getting ready to set off I heard a vehicle, down the track came a table top with three people in the front of a two seat cabin…I knew the passenger from years gone by (think 25 years) and that he owned a small 100 acre block way up in the mountains at the back. They pulled up to say hello (and I am sure that I heard “Duelling Banjos” start up in the background) and I asked if they were going all the way out of the place, if so they went past the hut I use, and as they were could I hitch a ride on the back. All good, I said I will just grab my rifle, and he suggest this was a good idea as I wouldn’t want it stolen. I agreed but also figure it may help keep my virginity intact should they have been on that back block for too long…….
Dropped off and collected the bike by 9pm. Took off for home early the next day. As I had to drive right past the front door, I dropped the bike at the local dealership to have the tyre repaired/replaced and for a new chain a sprocket kit to go on. In doing so I am going to gear the bike down a good bit while balancing “top speed” (in reality it never gets close to its capacity so climbing is much more of an issue).
Five weeks, just five loooong weeks and I am back out there again….
Oh...and my companion for the trip ...
This one has possibly moved up into second place as my favourite Busse !!!!!!!!
The only real complaint was the farking heat… several days over 40degsC and a couple with no breeze whatsoever, just sitting in the hut was hard work around 1pm !!! I did get some rather abusive e-mail from a good mate when I told him I was sweating away under a tree in the bush, seems he was a bit chilly or something there in NY…
I think he is just a bit soft…!!!Normal routine was up at 4.45-5am, lightening breakfast (coffee and a tin of fruit or similar) and out before sunrise at 6.30. Hunt till 9-10ish and then back to the hut and sleep/eat/read etc till around 5pm and back out again. Most days (except the last when it was over overcast) it was still light well after 8pm.
The area I was in is also in the midst of a drought, the last good rain was the first week of Feb 2013 with a little more in Nov 13 !!!!!!! I will add some pics from last year for comparison as well.
Basically hunting deer but in reality it is just too early in the season for a trophy head and I have enough in the freezer for now so I left the does alone. I am back up here at the end of March so we shall see how things are then. Saw LOTS of deer, a good sign given over 1100 were shot off the property last year alone…!!! Pigs, now they do tickle my homicidal gene and we shoot each and every one we can, this is expected of us. I did see some BIG boars, but always just a bit too far away to take, one of the other guys took a sow close to 100kg that, is being processed into sausages.
So, some pics….
First afternoon out…
“The Zombie Express” as it is running around now (or was till the last day, more on that later)…
First little boar …
Second little boar, this one was actually a play stalk to see how close I could get, started out around 200yds away (looked MUCH bigger from there) and worked my way down to 30 yds past another smaller hog and two deer, all undisturbed till I fire the shot. When I walked to where he fell I funnily enough located another hog skeleton with an aluminium arrow laying there among the bones…!!!
Up the opposite side of the valley (Lexi, you may recognise this spot from the cellphone picture) from all the other pics so far, this morning started off nice and cool (with the cloud/mist rolling over a saddle) but soon turned into a completely still scorcher..!!
The remains of a hog shot up in here last year (I will also add last year’s pic for comparison of the place)…
Last year…
Back out the other side of the valley again, and up at one of the high points, spent the afternoon sitting over the dam to see what came down… in the end just a few does and fawns….
Now the hut sits just 150yds or so from the creek, one of the hottest afternoons I decided not to ride out anywhere and just relax on the verandah and what do I spy out near the creek….
… all four from the hut with four shots
And out on the very last afternoon as the cloud came over.
When the above was taken I was riding up to a spot around the other side of the hill in the right of the picture, about as far back as one can be on the place and almost as far from the hut. Sat out there for a couple of hours and set out for home (and to pack up) around 7.45pm. Rode 100 yards and the back end of the bike started feeling funny. Sure enough I had spiked a tyre and sure enough the repair kit was back at the hut … yes I can see you all rolling your eyes..!!!!!!!!! It would have taken me maybe two or three hours to walk back from here as not only is it way out the back of the place it is also one of the heist points on this property. Soooo…. I decided to see how far one could get as even if I walked I would not get the Toyota and trailer up there to recover the bike, so I started off and took the most direct (and steepest) track down. It was all fun and exciting as the back end obviously was not going to track well and was constantly trying to kick out. At one point I had to strop and cut the tube out of the chain/sprocket… oops…. long story short I made it down onto the creek flats safe enough and also managed to snot another hog on the way.
I then had probably an hour to walk home (all fat easy going however) and as I was getting ready to set off I heard a vehicle, down the track came a table top with three people in the front of a two seat cabin…I knew the passenger from years gone by (think 25 years) and that he owned a small 100 acre block way up in the mountains at the back. They pulled up to say hello (and I am sure that I heard “Duelling Banjos” start up in the background) and I asked if they were going all the way out of the place, if so they went past the hut I use, and as they were could I hitch a ride on the back. All good, I said I will just grab my rifle, and he suggest this was a good idea as I wouldn’t want it stolen. I agreed but also figure it may help keep my virginity intact should they have been on that back block for too long…….
Dropped off and collected the bike by 9pm. Took off for home early the next day. As I had to drive right past the front door, I dropped the bike at the local dealership to have the tyre repaired/replaced and for a new chain a sprocket kit to go on. In doing so I am going to gear the bike down a good bit while balancing “top speed” (in reality it never gets close to its capacity so climbing is much more of an issue).
Five weeks, just five loooong weeks and I am back out there again….
Oh...and my companion for the trip ...
This one has possibly moved up into second place as my favourite Busse !!!!!!!!
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