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  1. wanderingjim

    BOWHUNTING Giraffe

    Heres a few photos of the impact point. Etc. I ended up using an arrow with a total mass of 750gr going 225fps. Tipped with a 180gr german kinetic. The shaft was an Australian designed 250 spine arrow from native gear archery. It had a 60gr steel insert with 2 easton axis 75 gr inserts behind...
  2. wanderingjim

    Shot To The Heart

    Heres a few photos of the impact point. Etc. I ended up using an arrow with a total mass of 750gr going 225fps. Tipped with a 180gr german kinetic. The shaft was an Australian designed 250 spine arrow from native gear archery. It had a 60gr steel insert with 2 easton axis 75 gr inserts behind...
  3. Bow Hunting Giraffe in South Africa

    Bow Hunting Giraffe in South Africa

  4. Arrow Performance

    Arrow Performance

    Rather than start a new post, heres a few photos of the impact point. Etc. I ended up using an arrow with a total mass of 750gr going 225fps. Tipped with a 180gr german kinetic. The shaft was an Australian designed 250 spine arrow from native gear archery. It had a 60gr steel insert with 2...
  5. Arrow Performance

    Arrow Performance

    Rather than start a new post, heres a few photos of the impact point. Etc. I ended up using an arrow with a total mass of 750gr going 225fps. Tipped with a 180gr german kinetic. The shaft was an Australian designed 250 spine arrow from native gear archery. It had a 60gr steel insert with 2...
  6. Giraffe Heart

    Giraffe Heart

    Rather than start a new post, heres a few photos of the impact point. Etc. I ended up using an arrow with a total mass of 750gr going 225fps. Tipped with a 180gr german kinetic. The shaft was an Australian designed 250 spine arrow from native gear archery. It had a 60gr steel insert with 2...
  7. Giraffe Bow Hunt

    Giraffe Bow Hunt

    Rather than start a new post, heres a few photos of the impact point. Etc. I ended up using an arrow with a total mass of 750gr going 225fps. Tipped with a 180gr german kinetic. The shaft was an Australian designed 250 spine arrow from native gear archery. It had a 60gr steel insert with 2...
  8. wanderingjim

    Arrow selection for giraffe hunt

    I wouldnt shoot any higher than that but it worked out perfectly. It ran about 50mt and piled up behind some brushes. I've got it on video but having some trouble uploading the mp4 file. My Ph has never seen a giraffe go down and pass as quickly as this one did I guess the aorta hit was as...
  9. wanderingjim

    Arrow selection for giraffe hunt

    FOC was 23% give or take a grain.
  10. wanderingjim

    Arrow selection for giraffe hunt

    Rather than start a new post, heres a few photos of the impact point. Etc. I ended up using an arrow with a total mass of 750gr going 225fps. Tipped with a 180gr german kinetic. The shaft was an Australian designed 250 spine arrow from native gear archery. It had a 60gr steel insert with 2...
  11. wanderingjim

    Arrow selection for giraffe hunt

    Well folks, thanks for the input. The hunt was more successful than I could have imagined. After near 10 stalks during the day I finally got within range of the target bull. Will post a more detailed report on another post
  12. wanderingjim

    Arrow selection for giraffe hunt

    Hey fellow arrow flingers. I am hunting a bull giraffe in a few months time and was wondering on arrow selection, or more importantly arrow spine selection. I am using my hoyt nitrum at 29inches and 72lb. I am using 200gr or 180gr german kinetics up front. And im using the easton dg fmj...
  13. wanderingjim

    G5 T3 Expandable for Bow Hunting Plains Game

    Awesome work lad. Amazing critters there. Given my experience with the T3 heads I knew you would have nothing but clean shots. Well done
  14. wanderingjim

    G5 T3 Expandable for Bow Hunting Plains Game

    From memory its around 94 foot pounds of KE. The wildebeest certainly didn't like it. Heres some more for your viewing pleasure
  15. wanderingjim

    G5 T3 Expandable for Bow Hunting Plains Game

    Hey mate, the arrows are early version St axis arrows, total weight was 520gr. The old burner certainly does pump em out for a 6yr old Hoyt
  16. wanderingjim

    G5 T3 Expandable for Bow Hunting Plains Game

    Hey guys, I just spotted this chat. Ive been using the t3's for a number of years and used them successfully in Africa in 2013. The PH was a bit skeptical at first, so we moved up the critter scale starting at impala, warthog, porcupines, then onto a blue wildebeest cow and a waterbuck cow...
  17. wanderingjim

    6000 aud water buffalo trophy hunt only 4 spots left

    HI all, I hunted with Hayden in 2012 and harvested the magnificent rusa you see in his avatar. He is enthusiastic and keen to make your experience one in a lifetime. he certainly knows his quarry, and will do all to get your trophy of a lifetime, just like mine. he is the current No17 in the...
  18. livingstone eland

    livingstone eland

    how this for a magnificent specimen. He is the only no go animal on the property. what a tease.
  19. the management blue wildebeest "the biltong tree"

    the management blue wildebeest "the biltong tree"

    Nothing goes to waste at this property! I ate them out of biltong, so we had to re stock the larder.
  20. management blue wildebeest cow

    management blue wildebeest cow

  21. walk n stalk impala

    walk n stalk impala

  22. warthog for the table taken on foot

    warthog for the table taken on foot

  23. Impala

    Impala

  24. wanderingjim

    Arrow selection for plains game!

    Thanks for the kind offer, alas the hunt has been and gone. I did not end up taking the longbow as the airline I was flying with was going to charge me an exorbitant amount for excess luggage to take it on the plane on top of my check in luggage, plus the land owner was not keen on trad...
  25. wanderingjim

    management impala bow hunt with baobab hunting

    Not all hunts are for the biggest heads, This old warrior will adorn my bow hunting clubs new clubroom for a long time, being admired by many dreaming of a trip to the dark continent. For a change those bloody baboons helped me out! enjoy wanderingjim
  26. wanderingjim

    wildebeest cow bow hunt 3rd oct 2013

    Hi there, I just wanted to share a vid of a recent bow hunt I had with Andrew Shoeman of Baobab hunting. I was asked to shoot the cow as a management animal and camp meat. Myself and my friend that hunted there ate him out of biltong and drywors, so we had to restock the larder. 6%...
  27. wanderingjim

    AH Get Together at Australian Deer Association ADA 2013

    Hey Bluey, Shame you cant get up here, its nice and warm at the moment. Good luck on the rusa mate, they are cunning buggers that's for sure. I finally got the panel score of mine, and it went 223 1/8 making it 17 in the ADA record books. Im kinda happy bout that one. Let me know when...
  28. wanderingjim

    AH Get Together at Australian Deer Association ADA 2013

    Hi all, For those "upsidedowners" attending the Queensland Hunting and Outdoor Expo - Australian Deer Association (ADA), I will try and organise a gathering at the Saturday night hunters dinner, after the formalities. Please PM me or reply to the thread and we can get the ball rolling. It...
  29. wanderingjim

    Hi From Queensland Australia

    thanks for the link Jerome, was just onto it but got distracted by another of Christophe's video's.
  30. wanderingjim

    Hi From Queensland Australia

    yeah mate, that's the one. I wont hijack your thread but I want to organise a get together of AH nutters at the Saturday night hunters dinner. I will post this elsewhere.
  31. wanderingjim

    Hi From Queensland Australia

    welcome aboard fellow cane toad! If it possible there is also too much info on this site, but any question you ever need answered this is the place for it. Hope your attending the ADA show in October, I will be there with a booth for my friend's safari business. Good luck with the firearm...
  32. wanderingjim

    Arrow selection for plains game!

    Hey there all you trad shooters out there. I am doing a trip in the end of sept on the Limpopo province for some plainsgame, mainly smaller stuff inc warthogs impala, blesbok etc. I am taking my favourite stick bow, a lovely great plains longbow, 58lb @28in. I have been shooting it with...
  33. wanderingjim

    a new hunters first animal thats why we hunt

    you are just living up to your name of bluey (that was our nickname for em) with the questions. Im sure chital and rusa can live in the same environment. I am no deer expert, but im sure rusa browse and graze like sambar, and chital graze more like fallow, so competition would be limited...
  34. wanderingjim

    a new hunters first animal thats why we hunt

    hes 34 in long with 14 in brows, Still waiting for the official score, but about 225d/s. They go off their head when rutting. theres awesome footage on one of the aussie bowhunting forums of a fella darting a stag when he is brawling with another stag. he drops then the other stag proceeds...
  35. wanderingjim

    a new hunters first animal thats why we hunt

    bugger, been doing that re the pics. that's the one in my album. To this day I don't know why I labelled him as a sambar. He's a pure wild central QLD rusa, not one of Angas' pets that hang round the Hilton. Not that im adverse to dropping some of watervalley's finest. Heres one more go, its...
  36. wanderingjim

    a new hunters first animal thats why we hunt

    take 2. im sure I have posted pics of him before but here he is again.
  37. wanderingjim

    a new hunters first animal thats why we hunt

    he sure has a good set of brows that's for sure! I havnt been inland for quite some time so do not know the jo blake status sorry. The rusa have rubbed out in central qld, just. A mate is heading to the same property with my mate hayden of unique adventures in two weeks time to catch em...
  38. wanderingjim

    a new hunters first animal thats why we hunt

    heres something to whet the appetite bluey! some stags on the same proprty
  39. wanderingjim

    a new hunters first animal thats why we hunt

    A short video of a hunters first deer taken with Hayden Potts of Unique adventures. You have to love Ben's (the hunter) response to the situation.
  40. Sambar

    Sambar

  41. Fallow Deer

    Fallow Deer

  42. wanderingjim

    AUSTRALIA: Hunting Start The Aus Ball Rolling!

    heres a few more aussie deer pics for the lads to check out. amazing samber pics im jealous!
  43. wanderingjim

    leopard

    This is not a hunting clip, but of some unusual footage i wanted to share with all those who love african wildlife! please watch it all as there is some unforgetable footage of a leopard you may never see again! enjoy
  44. wanderingjim

    hog deer, my first attempt at this hope the vid goes through, enjoy

    The deer are on an island that only has fences to keep the game out of areas, not in. There is tags in the young ones ear, but these are used by the island and government authorities for study purposes. As i mentioned in a prior response, we tag a number of calves each year on the island to...
  45. wanderingjim

    hog deer, my first attempt at this hope the vid goes through, enjoy

    thanks for the interest spike.t the island is a co-operativly owned reserve in Gippsland called Para park, the hog deer, or axis porcinus is found all along the south east coast of Victoria, Australia. the island has a website Home Hog deer are a small deer, males standing around 66cm at...
  46. wanderingjim

    hog deer, my first attempt at this hope the vid goes through, enjoy

    not a problem gentlemen. As you can see they are a magnificient little creature with an attitude as you can see the spiker has been put in his place. Not too mention they are also one of the best eating deer i have ever encountered! they are truly wild animals on this island, as they have...
  47. warthog hunt 2010

    warthog hunt 2010

    its frustrating when there is so many warthogs that you cant get a shot off for 45 minutes on the tenth day of your hunt,NOT. you gotta love hunting in africa
  48. 52 inch kudu bull taken 2010

    52 inch kudu bull taken 2010

    kudu shot 2010 in Limpopo province using a hoyt alphamax 76lb shoting a 300 spine beman mfx tipped with 100gr trophy taker t-lock terminal weight 520 gr flying at 265 fps
  49. bowhunt for 36in gemsbok bull

    bowhunt for 36in gemsbok bull

    2010 bowhunt in the limpopo province, using a 76lb hoyt alphamax bow with 300 spine beman mfx arrows tipped with a trophy takers t-lock terminal 100gr, total mass 520gr flying at 265 fps
 
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