Australian Hunter

My first five-day expedition to Arnhem Land was many years ago and followed an auction hunt purchase at a Safari Club International (SCI) South Pacific Chapter convention in Sydney. The trophy target, an Asiatic water buffalo. My kick-off point was M

Project Moonie began in 2012 near the town of Moonie, west of Brisbane and is conducted on a bimonthly basis. It comprises of 12 adjoining properties and a national park covering more than 100,000 acres. More properties seem to come on board regularl

The Leatherman Tool Group was founded by Tim Leatherman in 1983. Since then it has gone on to release dozens of diverse multi-tools in almost as many configurations. Different colour options, steels, refinements and evolutions of existing types helps

The activities of photography and hunting are more symbiotic than many people imagine. The very nature of hunting engenders an awareness of all lifeforms as a necessary part of any successful tracking down of game. As a hunter, prerequisite knowledge

I act as caretaker on a large 2200 sq km cattle station when the manager is elsewhere. The station is rugged to the extreme, being on the western edge of the Great Dividing Range, about 300km west from Cairns in North Queensland. The work is not hard

I could barely see two white specks on a rock platform way up in the hills. Grabbing my 8x30 binoculars, my suspicions were confirmed – feral goats. The Kimber 84M chambered in 6SLR would be fine on goats. By the time I reached the rock ledge, the pa

It began as a campfire conversation while on a deer hunt. After a successful day stalking chital in north Queensland, my hunting buddy, Jan, and I found ourselves theorising about the specifics of an ideal light stalking rifle for Australian conditio

As if someone had just drawn the curtains open, the first of the day’s rays began to pierce through the scrub along with the heat that I have come to expect from the mid-January summer sun. ‘You have to be a tough animal to survive this kind of clima

Every now and then, a manufacturer gets it right. Really right. Winchester did it with the legendary Model 70, Leupold did it with the original VX series of scopes and Ruger did it by reviving the single shot for the 20th Century. These manufacturers

I was very dubious. That’s the only way to describe my response when my Blaauwkrantz Safaris Professional Hunter (PH), Arnold Claassen, arrived with his latest purchase. He pulled his new gun-rest out of the packaging and explained that it would give

After hunting in America with my family and managing to bag myself a whitetail buck, my guide over there, Wade, accepted my invitation to hunt over here. As part of the arrangement he would fly my whitetail antlers and tanned skin to Australia and in

There are certain tones you can gather from a stag’s roar. After 10 years of hunting them I’m becoming pretty spot-on with my assessments. This roar was loud, deep and serious. Not your typical run-of-the-mill sound. He was old, aggressive and wanted

These days, many Aussie hunters use binoculars when out hunting. There are a massive array of options on offer, from the lower priced ones of questionable quality to the extremely expensive, super performance models of the top-end brands. A myriad of

Official Australian Hunter Magazine Men’s Columbia PFG Bahama II long sleeve shirt Our new and exclusive shirts, proudly emblazoned with ‘Australian Hunter Magazine’ on the front and ‘Always the Hunter’ on the sleeve, are designed with the total purp

The alarm ejected me out of bed at 5am and I made the hour’s drive from my home in Zuid (south) Holland to a hamlet in the flat farming polders (paddocks) of Noord (north) Holland, about 20 minutes outside the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. When I arriv

The latest release from Eagleye is the Light Mount for utes and quads by SmartRest. Once again, the clever people at Eagleye have an innovative product. According to the Eagleye website, this offering can also be mounted to ‘UTV and buggy vehicles, a

The German Hunting and Fishing Museum in Munich was not hard to find. Out in front of a busy pedestrian mall, a large, bronze boar was not scary-looking enough to deter shoppers and children from pausing to rub his nose or sit astride his back. I had

My approach to game meat ribs is focused on the size of the animal that you have taken (ideally a head-shot beast). Pigs, goats and small deer can all be processed into similar sized cuts. Typically, ribs are butchered from either goats and lamb/shee

It is de rigueur to twice cook your ribs. This rib recipe is ideal for the camp fire in that the two different cooking phases occur in the same pot (in this case the ‘pot’ is a cast iron camp oven). Phase one is the sautéing of the dry rubbed ribs in

The idea behind this recipe is that its flavours are completely different to the heavy smoke and barbecue sauce-based taste of the previous recipe. This dish is the combination of bright citrus zing and the punch of fresh herbs. The basil and citrus

Rib tips are short, meaty sections of rib attached to the lower end of the spare ribs, between the bones and the sternum (breastbone). Unlike back ribs and/or spare ribs, the structure of the rib tip sheet is provided by dense costal cartilage bars (