Way Beyond The Divide

I WAS passing the Moroka 30 stand at a SHOT Expo and saw a familiar face, so I introduced myself to the multi-award winning filmmaker and hunting clothing and accessories retailer, Rob Fickling. Talk soon turned to Rob’s very successful TV show, Beyond the Divide. I made a tongue in cheek comment to Rob that he should do an episode on some big billy goats. Rob defensively said “I have already done one and scored a beautiful 36 inch billy “.

Without saying a word I got my phone out of my pocket and showed Rob a few photos of some huge billies I had recently scored out west. Rob called out to his cameraman, Greg Hogan, “come and check out these photos”. Their jaws dropped! We exchanged details and I wandered off into the crowd.

Rob was in touch within a week and before long we hatched a plan to do a trip out west to film an episode chasing monster billies. Two months later we were heading west of Sydney in Greg’s ute.