adam
25-03-07, 11:48 PM
A quick one
We ran 1700kms up on the old boys Nissan Safari over the weekend.
Leaving early Saturday morning with a huge lightning storm chasing behind us but we soon left it in our dust. We arrived at the station but things looked bleak. They had rounded up a good 8000 goats for there muster, and a chopper had been along the back of the property bordering were I hunt and shot over 2000 goats. It was a real disappointment to see hundreds of dead goats scattered around the ridges and water holes. Some real monsters lay amongst to mass dead of goats.
As sad as it was from a hunters view from a conservationists view it had to be done. The bilbies in this area hadn’t been sighted for years, the roos were dead carcasses rotting around goat fouled water, kicked out from the shade of caves in the blistering sun from goats seeking refuge. The landscape was being turned to desert a little more each day from over feeding goats, and cattle weak with ribs showing from lack of feed. Nothing can compete with these ferals and there numbers were certain to destroy the bush we had all come to love. I was told even the aboriginal cave drawings on the bordering block had been worn off by goats rubbing. You know its rough when the hardy old roo is dropping dead, we found quite a few suffering.
We left late in the afternoon passing some super big goats on the road to our next station, unfortunately my time is up in the Pilbara for now but ill be chasing up access if ever back here for those big goats. We arrived at the next station on dust and set up camp. The morning didn’t hold anything to huge. The old boy took out his frrst crossbow harvest after an ambush in which the billy came to 15 meters. I took out a old nanny with the recurve, her front legs had been broken some years back and she now walked on them heeled over facing the opposite to that they should. She lacked condition and I felt I was doing her and the land good by taking her.
The best goat we seen for the morning was a healthy 34 incher that put up quite a tough hunt. Eventually he came to within 27meters. After a precise tuning session on Friday I was very confident out to this distance and took the billy double lungs, he ran a touch more then Chris’s cat about 7 yards and was down and out.
After that it was the big drive home, quick hunt huge kms but worth it. A good by to wa goat country.
Adam
Excuse the photos 2 were taken on the video camera
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/bowhunting/Untitled-1-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/bowhunting/brockman.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/bowhunting/3_25_20078_15AM_0001.jpg
We ran 1700kms up on the old boys Nissan Safari over the weekend.
Leaving early Saturday morning with a huge lightning storm chasing behind us but we soon left it in our dust. We arrived at the station but things looked bleak. They had rounded up a good 8000 goats for there muster, and a chopper had been along the back of the property bordering were I hunt and shot over 2000 goats. It was a real disappointment to see hundreds of dead goats scattered around the ridges and water holes. Some real monsters lay amongst to mass dead of goats.
As sad as it was from a hunters view from a conservationists view it had to be done. The bilbies in this area hadn’t been sighted for years, the roos were dead carcasses rotting around goat fouled water, kicked out from the shade of caves in the blistering sun from goats seeking refuge. The landscape was being turned to desert a little more each day from over feeding goats, and cattle weak with ribs showing from lack of feed. Nothing can compete with these ferals and there numbers were certain to destroy the bush we had all come to love. I was told even the aboriginal cave drawings on the bordering block had been worn off by goats rubbing. You know its rough when the hardy old roo is dropping dead, we found quite a few suffering.
We left late in the afternoon passing some super big goats on the road to our next station, unfortunately my time is up in the Pilbara for now but ill be chasing up access if ever back here for those big goats. We arrived at the next station on dust and set up camp. The morning didn’t hold anything to huge. The old boy took out his frrst crossbow harvest after an ambush in which the billy came to 15 meters. I took out a old nanny with the recurve, her front legs had been broken some years back and she now walked on them heeled over facing the opposite to that they should. She lacked condition and I felt I was doing her and the land good by taking her.
The best goat we seen for the morning was a healthy 34 incher that put up quite a tough hunt. Eventually he came to within 27meters. After a precise tuning session on Friday I was very confident out to this distance and took the billy double lungs, he ran a touch more then Chris’s cat about 7 yards and was down and out.
After that it was the big drive home, quick hunt huge kms but worth it. A good by to wa goat country.
Adam
Excuse the photos 2 were taken on the video camera
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/bowhunting/Untitled-1-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/bowhunting/brockman.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/bowhunting/3_25_20078_15AM_0001.jpg