Hunting camps
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Topic: Hunting camps
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Subject: Hunting camps
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 11:48am
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Tell us about your areas you go hunting. Camps, locations, etc.
I have three main hunting areas I go. main one is a 400 acre track with a small trailer home used for a camp house. I hunt Deer, Turkey, Rabbit, and squirrel there. Second area is My in law's land they have 60 acres I hunt Deer, Turkey, Rabbit, and squirrel there as well. Third is owned by a good friend of mine I hunt all the above game there as well. His cabin is more like a home with better sleeping, eating, cooking and game areas.
Cookie Monster
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Posted By: allan
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 12:07pm
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i have 2 hunting grounds..friends of the family own 5,000 acres on the highlands..i hunt rabbit, fox, roos,crows, ducks on the river. i dont sleep there..its only an hour away.
2nd is my mates 160 acres adjoining his neighbours 120 acres we hunt roos, foxes, rabbits and pigs.his camp is a double garage with bunks and kitchen within. we also take the dirt bikes..awesome weekend away.
once a year i go west 250,000 acres..nygan\bourke area ..shooting pigs, goats. we sleep in shearing quaters on the property..the showers make you smell worse than before you go in..bore water runs the showers..mmm mud. ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 12:26pm
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Allan,
Nice areas! I have a friend in Wyoming that has 10,000 acres I can hunt. I go there every few years or so.
Cookie Monster
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Posted By: Lithgow
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 1:43pm
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I hunt mainly station country, A mate has about 750000 acres 5 hours drive away I get up there about 3 times a year. We shoot donkey's mainly but also the odd goat and a few foxes. Live in the shearers quarters there. Pretty comfortable.
My brother manages 3 stations totalling about 4 1/2 million acres but its 10 hours away so I only get there twice a year. We shoot Donkeys Horses and camels there. Live in the house and it is very comfortable.
Shoot on a couple of farms here one is 7000 acres the other 1000 acres, Mainly foxes and rabbits.
The 303 is just the ticket for the bigger game like donkeys horses and camels. I prefer it over my 270w. With open sights and a 10 shot mag plus the fast bolt action not much gets away.
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Posted By: allan
Date Posted: October 10 2006 at 10:03pm
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i agree with ya lithgow...i prefer my .303 over my .270 for the same reasons. ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: October 12 2006 at 12:09pm
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Speaking of said camp. Headed there saturday morning to remove deer from woods and add them too freezer.
Cookie Monster
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Posted By: allan
Date Posted: October 12 2006 at 5:33pm
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i take it you's will be eating deer for months CM? ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: October 13 2006 at 5:10am
Yes Allan I hope too. Smoking two hind quarters this weekend as well to make room for the fresh meat this season.
Cookie Monster
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allan wrote:Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: October 15 2006 at 1:29pm
You southern rednecks will smoke ANYTHING!! Now, just HOW do you get those deers into those papers? Hoadie - the perplexed ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: October 15 2006 at 9:36pm
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Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: October 16 2006 at 6:18am
Well they are very large ones
cookie monster
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: October 16 2006 at 6:24pm
Man...you guys put a whole new meaning to the term,"smokin a fatty!" Must be usin a whole CARTON of zigzags fer just one hind! Man, thats gotta be murder on the lungs! Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: October 17 2006 at 3:08am
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A poultice on the back of his neck and a pair of bellows up his ass Hoadie! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: October 17 2006 at 9:43am
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Hoadie, there is not that much fat on deer. duh!and it takes an even heat the fire has to be just right, cant use them cheap lighters from the doller store.
The "White Rhino" ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 24 2006 at 3:20am
Ditto here as well! Back in the late 60s when I went North to shoot Water Buff ,it was a case of the Boss suplied you with any rifle /cal combernation you wanted ......... Providing it was a Enfield in .303 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The 303-25 wa the Roo rifle of choice for many years & on windy nights (like tonight ! 6hrs was enough for this Jackie ) I still use my 303-25 ! I figure if something works don't try & fix it ! As for shooting properties & camps ? I have my winter camp which is home here & my summer camp which is just outside of Woomera (near Andamooka) I've never really sat down & orked out the area that I shoot over ,but I do miss the days of the Shooters camps in the time of the Pet Food industry up North ! Dave |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: October 24 2006 at 9:17am
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dave..do you hunt around the area they were doing nuclear tests up woomera way? ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: October 24 2006 at 11:20am
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Allen, yes that is why the roos and the camels are so Large.
Cookie Monster
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 24 2006 at 2:38pm
I 've skirted round Marilinga/ Emu Fields over the years as they take a very dim view of visitors out that way & it is still heavily patroled ! Was a time I used to go out on the Nullabour to shoot Foxes but that ended with the market collapse in 1985 . Dave |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: October 24 2006 at 10:26pm
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man did they make a mess of that place or what?? 60 minutes had a segment on it last sunday night..fancy being the security guys patroling the area..man what a bummed job.. no "3 eyed" dogs ???? ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 4:20am
Mate! it's no wonder they chose emu fields to do the tests ! It's the land God made in anger ! We used to go out on the Nullabour for the Fox season (about 3mths ) & make a years income ! there was nothing out there to keep em under control ! I took a 6mth contract Dogging on the SA /WA boarder once ,that was'nt bad (once the block heads in the WA police at Eucla found out that I had a permit to carry a high power rifle into WA ) I've always pitied the FPS people out there as i really think they must of done something really bad to be sent there ! They used to be out there for a fortnight at a time ! (mind you there was this Female FPS officer called Marion & even though Tracey was'nt in the picture in those days I might just leave it there  ) Dave |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 15 2007 at 5:00am
I have to ask what do you do with all the donkeys you shoot? We don't shoot them her we will sometimes ride them though. Actually in Missouri we breed them to a horse and get Mules! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 15 2007 at 4:04pm
Mostly their shot as pests ,but there is a market for the meat in the pet food market ! Dave |