Your thoughts

[BlueFlyer]

I watched this video last night.

While I appreciate that the client was very compromised with their mobility, it looks like any method justified the means. It appears to me, that the client was positioned in a good location and then the helicopters were used to drive the buffalo to the client.
This is not what I would consider as a legitimate hunt. It is a driven cull at best, no doubt the client paid by the number of heads. This a totally different concept to a fenced hunt.
What are your thoughts?

 

[Miletic]

Without intending to offend the hunters who practice this kind of hunting, this is extermination for me. Chase animals with a helicopter.... Although this grandfather is very nice to me, it seems that he hasn't caught enough wild animals so far.... I also think that he uses an insufficiently powerful caliber.

 

[grand veneur]

I was always a bit skeptical about buffalo hunting in Australia. I hope this video represents an exception, but cull hunts in Australia with the opportunities to shoot many buffalo in a short time are regularly offered. It still makes me consider about the buffalo hunting procedure there. On the other side in Africa, the practice of buffalo cows cull hunting seems to be slowly becoming established as well.

 

[BIG COUNTRY SAFARIS AUSTRALIA]

Thanks for your concern gentleman. The first part of the video is actually not a cull hunt but 3 trophy bullock buffalo being hunted. 2 of those 3 animals are top ten record book animals. To give some context a helicopter is needed to spot and access these animals. They are on a large wet floodplain (100,000 odd acres) no fences as you can see in the video and thick with salt water crocodiles. It is only way to access them. Potential animals must be spotted and the hunter placed ahead of the animal on hopefully a dry island on the floodplain in the direction one may think it could move. This is often unsuccessful and the helicopter has to pick us up multiple times during the day and move us to another area for another chance at spotting the animal or a different animal on the ground and hunting it. From there it is up to the hunter the helicopter takes off. It is often the case that the helicopter can be heard in the background as it takes off or looks for somewhere nearby to land where it is not wet and shutdown whilst we try and hunt the animal. You will notice there is no helicopter involved in the third bullock hunt as it was hunted on dry ground and timberland.

To give some further context these bullock buffalo hunts make up about 2 percent of our hunting season. They are extremely expensive these animals are all record book.

We also run large cull hunts and our normal trophy buffalo bull hunts across millions of acres of exclusive concessions we hold where there is no helicopters involved this is our core business. There are many members on here who have hunted with us and can attest to this and our top class free range wilderness safaris we run.

However make no mistake if you want a driven cull hunt I will make that happen and we have conducted these before. There is plenty of big bore rifle enthusiasts around the world who love the rush of large bovine running directly at them and potentially over them! But this is not going to be cheap! We offer big game culling opportunities that are not available anywhere else in the world. If you have the money I will take you to areas of our vast concessions that can only be reached by helicopter to hunt on foot, areas that have never been hunted before. You just need to have the money to pay for it! This is international hunting there is different hunting options for all budgets and we take pride in being offer top class safaris to all budgets on some of the biggest and most remote hunting concessions in the world.

I should also add a little about this hunter in the video. This is man has hunted just about every species you can think of in the world including 2 species of markor and multiple asian sheep and capra species in the last two years alone at age 83. His pure grit and determination to hunt is something to be admired.

Happy New Year, I wish you all a safe and prosperous 2026

 

[grand veneur]

I am not convinced of that. If the hunts are so difficult that one need helicopters, you should not use an old, infirm hunter as the main character in the video. Once again, the buffalo hunts in Australia don't convince me.

 

[Miletic]

Dear Sir,thank you for the detailed explanation. I absolutely believe you and understand that the space is huge and that it is difficult to reach the trophy. As a person who greatly appreciates and respects animals, I felt the need to somehow defend them from us hunters. In any case, I am not a supporter of using hi tec equipment in hunting. That was primarily the reason for writing my comment, which was not meant to offend the hunter and the hunt organizer. Also, I don't have the trophy of the game that you recorded, so I would possibly think about hunting with you. I need the prices of all services and trophies. I have relatives in Aut, so maybe I would visit them. Thank you and I hope you fully understood me