- AUSTRALIA –
DRIVEN WATER BUFFALO HUNTS
Groups of 4 hunters can hunt 100 buffalo and wild boar, and also fish the fantastic Barrumundi in the rivers of the station.
• Season: June. From Friday to Monday, with 4 groups of 4 hunters each.
01 - 11 June
21 - 31 July
24 August - 3 September
15 - 25 September
11 - 21 October
Charter flight up to Farm AU$ 1.400/hunter, total AU$ 5.600
• Airport: Darwin
• Accommodation: cattle station bungalows with all amenities.
• Helicopter for hunting and all transport included.
• AU$ 14,900 per hunter. All trophy fees included without limit.
• Accompanying non-hunters: AU$ 5,000
• Extras: Insurance and documentation; AU$ 200. Capping for shoulder mount: AU$150
• Not included: packaging, trophy shipments, tips, alcohol beverages, hotels before and after the hunt.
• Maximum weight of ammunition, including box, 5 kg. We need to know, two months before, the whole details of the rifles for arms imports papers work.
• Essential heavy gauge, type 375 HH on. (Rent $ 300 rifle. Box 375 bullets HH $ 65).
(All prices are in Australian Dollars)
DESCRIPTION OF THE HUNT: the hunt takes place in a 600,000 hectare cattle station that has a population of 30,000 head of Brahman cattle. The station is surrounded by natural parks constantly throwing wild buffaloes to the area and this population must be maintained stable to prevent disease transmission between wild buffaloes and cattle. Then, each year between 1,000 and 1,500 buffaloes have to be eliminated in order for the buffalo population not to exceed 3,000 head.
The hunters move in off-road vehicles to the area where the helicopter located the buffalo herds. The hunters mounts to a quick line of four and the helicopter drives the buffalo to the positions. Since it is an operation of population control, it has to fold down the greatest number of buffalo, without regard to size, sex, or condition. Properly understood this concept of hunting is very similar, in short, to the Spanish Montería hunting, you have to shoot all possible animals entering in each the drive. Later, groups of skinners collect all the meat from the buffalo. Nothing is wasted. Very good trophies are shot and then also many boars can be hunted that enter, in few days, to feed in the carcasses of the buffalo.
Between 400 and 500 shots are fired to bring down the 100 buffalo expected, which is not necessarily a specific figure, 10% up or down, must be accepted without charge or refund for this variation.
The hunt ends when the raids are folded into the 100 buffaloes and can then go to fishing, hunting pigs or the pursuit of buffalo trophies with Toyotas.
