AUSTRALIA: My First Nganabbarru For 2018...

[BenKK]

I bump into Aaron and his clients now-and-then on the track behind my house. Good country. Magnificent artwork.

 

[Bullthrower338]

I bump into Aaron and his clients now-and-then on the track behind my house. Good country. Magnificent artwork.

I’m really looking forward to the trip! Might need to borrow your dog Mate, keep me from stepping on a snake! Lol

 

[CAustin]

Not sure he w I missed this thread when originally posted but fine buff you took sir. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Dr Ray]

My wife and I took her visiting mother out for a stroll to see some of the magnificent wet season countryside. After about a kilometre they’d had enough and turned for home, while I continued on. I was hoping to find something to feed our dog.

I also enjoy trying to photograph birds, and found a lone brolga, which is unusual as they mostly live in pairs or mobs.

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There was a beautiful bubbling spring with some great spots to sit in and cool off. We don’t have any cheeky crocodiles here, just freshies.

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Cutting across a hill for home I was rewarded with a view of the valley. I couldn’t quite see my house but I could see the windsock on the airstrip. I never get tired of looking at the valley!

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As I neared the sandy patch by Roasting Spot I found a nganabbarru resting in a wallow, and even though I knew he was young the stalk was on - don’t look a gift buffalo in the mouth during the wet season when you’ve got a hungry dog to feed. I photographed him and positioned myself by a tree sixty metres away. I tried to rattle the bolt up and down to get him to stand, but he ignored it, so I had to call-out. He stood alright, but so did a proper black old boy just forty metres away, whirling to face me, with magnificently blunted, battle-weary horns. I hate shooting young buffalo, and try to avoid it at all cost, so this sudden development was most welcome. Instantly my little Mauser .300H&H put the fine bead on his heart and sent the 220 grain Woodleigh FMJ on its merry way. He made twenty metres away before he had to brace himself to resist the inevitable collapse and a second FMJ to the chest put him straight down. It turns out there were two others, and they galloped away when they realised the old warrior wasn’t coming with them.

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When I got home I learned that our dog had stopped my wife and mother-in-law from stepping on a huge whip snake. She sure earned her nganabbarru!

And here’s a final picture of an egret that watched me while I drank water during my stroll...

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Do you have a problem in that buff may carry tuberculosis or brucellosis?
I’m a bit hesitant about eating a buff even the backstraps.
What’s your experience?

 

[Dr Ray]

I’m really looking forward to the trip! Might need to borrow your dog Mate, keep me from stepping on a snake! Lol

You’re be okay especially in August when the so called cool season is on.
Oz snakes are harmless! How convincing is that?

 

[BenKK]

G’day Dr Ray, no problem whatsoever. I love it!

The only beast the Aboriginal guys thought may have TB was a cleanskin red cow I shot with the .22-250 and it broke their hearts to walk away from it.

A Ranger told me that they cull around 3000 a year out of Maningrida and of those (buffalo) only three or four carry TB.

The TB cull caused a rift and really hurt folks, and as I understand it it was to appease the US Government to open-up the cattle trade to them.

Aside from a drug problem, the original Crocodile Dundee really went off the rails following income loss from the cull - and that’s how he wound-up dead in a shoot-out with Police, in which he murdered an Officer who was a family man.

A mate of mine, an old guy, joined-in the cull near where I live, and shot a grand old bull with an SKS. Actually, this mate of mine once met a man out at Mount Catt who introduced himself with, “Hello, I’m Adolf Hitler.” I never met Hitler, but I know his family (who don’t carry that name). Of the same vintage, there was also a Winston Churchill down in the Simpson.

Bush yarns.

 

[ActionBob]

Congrats on that great bull! And love the rifle, looks like a real classy piece.

And thanks for sharing the stories, keep it up. Priceless dog you have there as well

 

[ActionBob]

Hey Cody @Bullthrower338 , can you say Nganabbarru?

 

[Bullthrower338]

Hey Cody @Bullthrower338 , can you say Nganabbarru?

Of course I can Bob! Who couldn’t? But I prefer to use buffalo! Buffalo! Shoot Shoot!

 

[Bullthrower338]

Can’t wait! Fixing to go home and load some 500 grain A-Frames in a couple hours.

 

[BenKK]

Hey Cody @Bullthrower338 , can you say Nganabbarru?

It’s my fifth year saying that word, and I still need some refinement!

 

[BRICKBURN]

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Oz snakes are harmless! How convincing is that?

 

[Dr Ray]

I take it that I was really not convincing! Sigh!!
Lol!

 

[BRICKBURN]

I hate snakes. I have seen two venomous snakes in my life. Zero desire to see more and your salesmanship definitely fell short for this guy.

 

[Rule 303]

No they are fairly harmless. They don't have big fangs so hardly hurt at all when they bite

 

[Rule 303]

G'day Ben,
Some great country you live in. Love the Brogals, magnificent birds. Like the way yu cant see them a couple of hundred feet up on a bright sunny day without polorised sunglasses.

 

[BRICKBURN]

No they are fairly harmless. They don't have big fangs so hardly hurt at all when they bite

That's because you are dead so fast.

 

[Rule 303]

That's because you are dead so fast.

Oh no, no you have at least 3 minutes

 

[BenKK]

When a red-bellied black nipped me it hurt like blazes straight away.

 

[PaulT]

When a red-bellied black nipped me it hurt like blazes straight away.

Did you get sick ?

I once fell asleep on a camp stretcher next to the billabong in front of my camp, during the middle of the day.
When I woke and went to get up I felt a sharp stabbing pain running down my left arm. The more I tried moving my arm the more it hurt.
I found two puncture marks about 5mm apart.
Took a full week or more to recover from that one !!