macka
13-12-05, 07:55 PM
Both alarms on both phones went off exactly the same time as I arose from my bed to hear a moaning coming from Daniel. It didn’t look like he was too keen getting up at 4:45 but we managed to drag ourselves out and get our camo gear on. It wasn’t long and with an apple and banana we hit the in road in the old cruser. We got walking as it was just getting light and the call of the KooKaburras were a little offputting that they might be laughing at us. We werehoping to catch some fallow deer out feeding unaware. We were moving slowly along the ridges classing every nook and cranny but besides hundreds of roos (some looked like deer) there wasn’t anything about. As we got to about the 3km mark on our walk Daniel said goats in the tone of voice you know he isn’t joking. We sat there and glassed them for a while. Not seeing anything big we still thought there might be some unseen Billies so we decided to go for a look. Just as we were about to move I looked down into the reedy creek to see a deer staring back at us from about 55m. It was tempting but an alert deer at 55m would definitely duck an arrow or even worse hit it in the wrong place. And after a while it took off.
So we made it down and through the creek and started to walk up a pretty steep ridge towards the goats. The wind was going to be good from the angle we were approaching so all was going to plan. As we reached the top I was in front by about 40m and I stopped suddenly as I saw some movement about 30m away in the trees. I sat down and signalled to brownie where they were. He crawled over to me and we watched as about 6 or 7 young Billies walked past and over the ridge heeding for the gully. I said I would film him nail one of them so we slowly came over the ridge found about 10 goats feeding in front of us. The bottom goats were almost out of range so Daniel picked out a black Billy that was behind a pine tree to our right and started to stalk in closer. The goats down the gully a bit saw us and started making a bit of noise making brownie’s Billy head towards them.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/twisty.jpg
I gave out a bleat and he propped at about 30m. I had the camera on him and looked up just to see brownie’s arrow punch straight through the goat’s heart with an outback hunter. The goat ran down the hill and expired about 60m away from where he was shot.
Twisty horned nanny spotting us!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/PC200146.jpg
The 10 goats that were down the gully then jogged out of sight as we walked over to find Daniels arrow and to check out his goat. As we approached where he shot the goat we could hear more goats in the gully over so we had a quick look and noticed a white goat with a pretty good set of horns with a bunch of nannies. So not wasting any time I snuck around the back while Daniel sat there with the video cam. I came up behind a bushy mallee tree and saw I was only 10m away. I started to get pretty excited and drew my bow back and slowly edged out from behind the cover only to see about 5 young goats in front of the big Billy. But I held my stance and waited it was only a mere 20 seconds until he nudged some goats out the way and stood angling on to me giving me a clear shot.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/MOB.jpg
The wind was starting to turn a bit so I thought this angle would have to do so I placed the pin on his front right shoulder and touched off the release. The shot looked good and penetrated up to the fletches so I was confident of him dropping and he did about 100m from where I had hit him. On inspection the arrow had deflected off the shoulder a bit angling a little further back than I was hoping but it took out one lung a kidney and the liver so it still had the designated effect. He was a reasonable head being about 28”.
My billy 91dp
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/PC200142.jpg
After the photo’s I took the horns and we started walking back towards where we had seen the deer earlier. As we got to the creek we sat down and had a bite to eat and a drink. As we were going to be walking back along the ridge on the other side of the creek I balanced along a log and left the goat head on the other side of the creek and would pick it up on the way back. It was only when I got back that brownie said instead of you having to come off that hill we could just leave it here and drive to within 40m on the road and get it. Ohhhhhh so back I went across the log balancing above the reeds and water and picked up my goat head. On the way back across I was almost at the end when I slipped smacked myself in the head with the goat horns and landed in the reeds and water! Just brilliant! Brownie seemed to find it amusing I didn’t get a “are you alright” until after about 2 mins of laughter!
It was starting to warm up so we headed for a big waterhole and as we got there the sweat was starting to pour off and we knew we would be going for a swim. So after checking for crocodiles (no only joking were in SA) We jumped in and spent the next two hours swimming and getting as red as a boiled crab! We were happy with the day’s efforts and decided to forget the hunting and just walk out. We came across some more goats but there wasn’t anything really worth taking so we left them for another day.
All in all it was another great day spent in the bush and I hope you enjoyed reading about it.
Macka
So we made it down and through the creek and started to walk up a pretty steep ridge towards the goats. The wind was going to be good from the angle we were approaching so all was going to plan. As we reached the top I was in front by about 40m and I stopped suddenly as I saw some movement about 30m away in the trees. I sat down and signalled to brownie where they were. He crawled over to me and we watched as about 6 or 7 young Billies walked past and over the ridge heeding for the gully. I said I would film him nail one of them so we slowly came over the ridge found about 10 goats feeding in front of us. The bottom goats were almost out of range so Daniel picked out a black Billy that was behind a pine tree to our right and started to stalk in closer. The goats down the gully a bit saw us and started making a bit of noise making brownie’s Billy head towards them.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/twisty.jpg
I gave out a bleat and he propped at about 30m. I had the camera on him and looked up just to see brownie’s arrow punch straight through the goat’s heart with an outback hunter. The goat ran down the hill and expired about 60m away from where he was shot.
Twisty horned nanny spotting us!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/PC200146.jpg
The 10 goats that were down the gully then jogged out of sight as we walked over to find Daniels arrow and to check out his goat. As we approached where he shot the goat we could hear more goats in the gully over so we had a quick look and noticed a white goat with a pretty good set of horns with a bunch of nannies. So not wasting any time I snuck around the back while Daniel sat there with the video cam. I came up behind a bushy mallee tree and saw I was only 10m away. I started to get pretty excited and drew my bow back and slowly edged out from behind the cover only to see about 5 young goats in front of the big Billy. But I held my stance and waited it was only a mere 20 seconds until he nudged some goats out the way and stood angling on to me giving me a clear shot.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/MOB.jpg
The wind was starting to turn a bit so I thought this angle would have to do so I placed the pin on his front right shoulder and touched off the release. The shot looked good and penetrated up to the fletches so I was confident of him dropping and he did about 100m from where I had hit him. On inspection the arrow had deflected off the shoulder a bit angling a little further back than I was hoping but it took out one lung a kidney and the liver so it still had the designated effect. He was a reasonable head being about 28”.
My billy 91dp
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/PC200142.jpg
After the photo’s I took the horns and we started walking back towards where we had seen the deer earlier. As we got to the creek we sat down and had a bite to eat and a drink. As we were going to be walking back along the ridge on the other side of the creek I balanced along a log and left the goat head on the other side of the creek and would pick it up on the way back. It was only when I got back that brownie said instead of you having to come off that hill we could just leave it here and drive to within 40m on the road and get it. Ohhhhhh so back I went across the log balancing above the reeds and water and picked up my goat head. On the way back across I was almost at the end when I slipped smacked myself in the head with the goat horns and landed in the reeds and water! Just brilliant! Brownie seemed to find it amusing I didn’t get a “are you alright” until after about 2 mins of laughter!
It was starting to warm up so we headed for a big waterhole and as we got there the sweat was starting to pour off and we knew we would be going for a swim. So after checking for crocodiles (no only joking were in SA) We jumped in and spent the next two hours swimming and getting as red as a boiled crab! We were happy with the day’s efforts and decided to forget the hunting and just walk out. We came across some more goats but there wasn’t anything really worth taking so we left them for another day.
All in all it was another great day spent in the bush and I hope you enjoyed reading about it.
Macka