Levergun Buffalo Hunt in the Australian Outback

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I have recently returned from a 3 week, 10,000km journey hunting Australia's only two big game species, the Asiatic Water Buffalo & the Banteng. We also hunted wild pigs & scrub cattle, go Barra fishing, catch red claw and have numerous encounters with Crocodiles.
Eight of us headed across Arhnem Land & Kakadu through some of the most remote country in the world. I wasn't all smooth sailing, my old F250 has close to 600,000 km on the clock & she let us down a couple of times, but bad fuel didn't help any.
We guided ourselves on the Buffalo, and dropped 7 of the brutes. Our camp was on the edge of an aboriginal community in East Arnhem Land about 300km from anywhere. My son Cody turned 13 on the way up there & he bagged the first Buff, which for me was a highlight of the trip. He used my Browning BLR 30-06, handloaded with 180gr Woodleighs. I used my Winchester 1895 405 that a few of you may have seen before when I used it on Bison & Elk in Texas. The 405 were handloaded with 300gr Woodleighs to take my two Buffalos & the Banteng.
I hunted the Banteng near the Coburg Peninsula which is one of the only places in the world they are hunted. Our aboriginal guide James did a great job & it was a most enjoyable hunt. Enjoy the pictures.
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Very nice! Fun, father-son time, leverguns, hunting, and a lot of meat. What could be better?
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Sounds like a good hunt.

Wow! Would I love to hunt that range.

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Pete, you certainly show us things we wouldn't see otherwise. Thanks!
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earlmck wrote:Pete, you certainly show us things we wouldn't see otherwise. Thanks!
+ 1 Great post, thanks.... :mrgreen:
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Sure did like seeing the pics. and reading the story. Do those Buffs eat good? Looks like plenty of meat.,,,DT
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earlmck wrote:Pete, you certainly show us things we wouldn't see otherwise. Thanks!
Yep. Great stuff...!

Thanks for sharing.
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It must have been a great adventure! :mrgreen:
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What a great adventure.
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Very cool except for the "numerous encounters with crocodiles" part.



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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Good on ya!
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Thanks for posting-good show!
I see that you stopped at Crocodile Dundee's; do the serve croc steak there?
I had croc some years back at the Crocodilian Inn in RSA and it was good.
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Awesome That's what I would call livin Large. Thanks for the pic's.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: A hunt of a lifetime for most. Congrats and thanks for the pictures !!!
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Wild country! Is that photo of the ocean? Man, I'd like to cast a line into that water.
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Hey Pete, that sounds like a great adventure, made even more special by having your son along.

A few years ago I hunted in a similar location to you by the sounds of it. It was about 250 Km's from Gove and I used my 45/90 levergun with cast pills to take a buffalo.

Did you manage to recover any Woodleigh bullets from your Buffalo or Banteng?
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I didn't think you folks could own firearms over there. What gives are our politicians lying to us!
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Thanks, do you have to buy licences for those buffalo?
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That alot of beef. Well done lads.
That 405 looks tiny, are you a big fellow :D

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Fantastic!

Few questions: How did you deal with the meat? Transportation? Give it to locals?

How do you access hunting land over there? Pay a fee? Open to the Public?

Did you use any guides?

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They can still have guns, but the types, amounts, idiotic licensing, etc are considerably more restrictive than it used to be.


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Cherokee1 wrote:I didn't think you folks could own firearms over there. What gives are our politicians lying to us!
Our laws were radically changed following a mass shooting in Tasmania in 1996. The new laws introduced after that incident essentially took away our semi auto rifles & shotguns (incl rimfires !!) and pump shotguns. Leveractions of all types were untouched and, oddly enough, neither were pump rifles.

However there are fresh moves to once again tighten up our already tight gun laws and we face a new battle over the coming year. This time it looks like they are after our leverguns and pump rifles and who knows what else they have in mind.

All I can say is don't give up on fighting this. The antis are relentless in their pursuit. At least you have the second amendment to protect you and you should fight any move to water that down.
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Dusty Texian wrote:Sure did like seeing the pics. and reading the story. Do those Buffs eat good? Looks like plenty of meat.,,,DT
The meat was quite nice, but very chewy. We had a chef along with us who cooked up the eye fillets into fillet minions, (wrapped in bacon). There were now facilities up there to dry age the meet in a cool room.
The aboriginal community would not eat the grown buffs, but wanted us to get them a young calf if we could but the mothers were too protective & kept circling the wagons & even mock charging us to protect their young. We did get them some wild pig & magpie geese.
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JFE wrote:Hey Pete, that sounds like a great adventure, made even more special by having your son along.

A few years ago I hunted in a similar location to you by the sounds of it. It was about 250 Km's from Gove and I used my 45/90 levergun with cast pills to take a buffalo.

Did you manage to recover any Woodleigh bullets from your Buffalo or Banteng?
We were about 300 km from Gove, & about 100 km from where a hunter perished from the heat & dehydration only a few weeks ago. I recovered 4 of the Woodleighs, 3 opened up well, but one held tight.
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Canuck Bob wrote:Thanks, do you have to buy licences for those buffalo?
No licences required, but you need permission from the traditional owners to even enter Arnhem Land. Guides have a lot of it sown up & charge around $10,500 for good Buff, we paid the tradional owners $1,000 each bull.
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rbertalotto wrote:Fantastic!

Few questions: How did you deal with the meat? Transportation? Give it to locals?

How do you access hunting land over there? Pay a fee? Open to the Public?

Did you use any guides?

Thanks
We ate some up there & I filled my Engels fridge with Buff meat that we bought home & made sausages out of. I had a Christmas party / fundraiser for the Shooter & Fishers Party a couple of weeks ago & we fed 140 people on the Buff sausages & Rusa meat.
We self guided on the Buff, which was a big job caping out the 7 Buff, on the Banteng hunt James from the local community guided me to a great result, & a mate & I caped out the Banteng, which was an awful lot easier than caping the Buffs with their inch thick hides.
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crs wrote:Thanks for posting-good show!
I see that you stopped at Crocodile Dundee's; do the serve croc steak there?
I had croc some years back at the Crocodilian Inn in RSA and it was good.
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We hit the Walkabout Creek Pub fairly early in the morning of Cody's 13th birthday, so the dinning room wasn't open. Cody got to play with Crocodile Dundee's knife, & I had a Bourbon for him.
Looking forward to catching up with you in Dallas in a couple of weeks old mate.
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piller wrote:Very nice! Fun, father-son time, leverguns, hunting, and a lot of meat. What could be better?
+1! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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GREAT pix, posts, and information.

I will never have the opportunity to retrace your steps, so it was fun to share your adventure. Thank you very much.
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Y'all had a fine time seems to me, thanks for the post and pictures


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A great hunt with your son...it doesn't get better than that!
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Thank you for buff6.jpg. It always believed that the real Australia was what I saw when I closed my eyes and now I see it is so.
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earlmck wrote:Pete, you certainly show us things we wouldn't see otherwise. Thanks!
+1! :!:
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