Time for a trophy bull
For those in the know, 0800 – ‘Oh eight hundred’ - is a 24-hour time call, meaning 8am, but it’s also the postcode for Darwin.
To backtrack, I recently celebrated a birthday and my wife asked me what I’d like to do. “Just a family dinner,” I replied. “And a buff hunt with two close mates.”
The meal was great, which left me with two phone calls to make. Both my long-time hunting mates, ‘Country’ and ‘Dodge’, took little persuasion.
A buffalo hunt has been on my bucket list since I started hunting. Flicking through the pages of my grandad’s hunting magazines as a teenager I almost didn’t believe such a game animal existed in Australia. But three decades later, you could say that maintaining interest in buff hunting eventually paid off, as here I was co-ordinating a buffalo hunt.
Dodge had previously taken a buffalo bull but was hoping for a larger animal and also wanted a scrub bull, whereas Country was keen on the prospect of just bagging a buffalo bull.
Dodge is a hunting guide and as a
