Sambar BackPack Hunt Aug 2016 in Victorian Alpine National Park by MountainMan Hunting Films
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- Three kiwi hunters (Jamie Carle, Andre Alipate and Dave Shaw) head into the Victorian Alpine National Park (Australia) to backpack hunt for sambar through a series of complex tributaries in the bush during August of 2016.
As usual, the winter conditions threw everything at us with a variety of snow, rain and warm sunshine throughout the 5 day back pack hunting trip.
Andre's objective was to take a sambar with the bow, while Jamie Carle was after a representative trophy. Dave Shaw also followed us on our epic journey as he filmed the adventure for airing on Season 3 of the TV hunting programme "Red Stag Timber Hunters Club", episode 5.
Viewable here on Vimeo vimeo.com/onde... (select episode 5, snowy river sambar)
While some content will have already featured in the "SNOWY RIVER" episode from the "Red Stag Timber Hunters Club" TV program, this film represents my perspective captured from my gopro and is intended to show the raw physical and mental challenges of back-packing into remote wilderness in pursuit of sambar.
Viewer warning: this is not a short film; it contains footage of dead animals; and some (minor) explicit language
Contains common copyright-free youtube music
Watch in HD and recommend headphones.
Enjoy
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Watched it again mate, what an epic trip to say the least. For you all to get trophy animals, well that doesn't happen often either.
Cheers👌
dogrunnerlive1 thanks mate, means a lot coming from you. Hope all is well with you and family! My elk trip has been cancelled in September so I’m itching for the travel restrictions to ease up so I can fly to Victoria for Sambar!!
@@MountainMan_NZ kind words mate, thank you.
All good over here atm trying to get out where possible but not where your heading.
No good about your elk trip.
Stay safe, hunt safe and all the best on your next exped mate.
Look forward to watching the next episode💪👍
What an absolute experience Jamie trip of a life time
One to remember for sure! Cheers for watching
As we wore out the remaining cartilage in our hip sockets 😂 awesome 👍🏼
I was the closest to being mentally and physically broken from that climb out. Particularly without water since about 10am
Agh yep that one is as LEGIT AS IT GETS. Fantastic!
Cheers BRATHA!!!
That's what I love about the Australian bush it will test you at every level but I wouldn't have it any other way what an amazing place I only wish I was 20 again instead of being 70 to be able to hunt ,hike and fish through the high country of south eastern Australia again all the best to you guys love your show.
Thank you Rod, i can only imagine you must have some fond memories for sure! I am exactly half your age and If I can have another 35 years of hunting in amazing high country like the Great Dividing Range or NZs Southern Alps, then I'll die a very happy man indeed. Thanks for watching and for.taking the time to leave a message. Cheers, Jamie
@@MountainMan_NZ Thanks Jamie My life has been an amazing journey from interstate truck driver, fisherman ,hunter, forager,and landscape photographer strictly amateur mind you but I will continue the fishing part of my life until I can't do it anymore ,as I say to my wife fishing is not a matter of life and death it's much more important than that I guess with you hunting is the same as it once was with me continue the great videos mate they are something I love to watch Cheers
@@rodgeorge7244 I have started to really enjoy fishing now too, and the thing I love about fishing is I can catch and release them which is something you obviously can't do with hunting... anyway, thanks again for your kind words of encouragement. Regards Jamie
Mate that was epic in every sense of the word. Well done Jamie, and shot Dre with the bow.
Thanks Scott, stoked you enjoyed it. Another memorable.one with Dre for sure
That was thoroughly enjoyable to watch and highly informative. Many thanks for your courage and devotion to such an ambitious exercise. You’ve left me moved.
Trevor Wright thanks for the kind words trevor!!
What a gutsy effort fellas
🙏thanks bro
Another amazing video mate. Thanks for your efforts to share this all with us. Can't wait to get into there come May!
Thanks mate, she is a wonderful part of the world, you'll have plenty of fun
Pure Samba almost black nice timber too .
Cheers guys great hunting god's with good hunters
Cheers for watching wattie, such an interesting animal to hunt. And I am very happy with the antlers. One day I will get a nice winter cape and mount one of my antlers
What an effort you put in there mate you deserve every bit of it. I always think ya put the effort in and you will get rewarded. Congrats on a great hunt. When I feel like given up I just push harder to. No one can say we hunters do earn what we harvest out in the bush. What a trip and thanks for taken us along.
ozzieoutdoors thanks mate. yeah theres something super special about backpack hunting in remote places! I simply can't do it any other way!!
Just watched it again mate, epic! Well earned deer thats for sure.
Glad you're still enjoying it mate. I certainly won't be forgetting this trip anytime soon 🤣
Top work fella's....great video and story.
Jason Bell thanks Jason- thanks for watching mate. Certainly trips like these are the ones that mean the most to us (personally); brotherhood forged
Excellent vid Jamie, really captured the feel of hunting for stags in that part of VIC
jaspersr thanks Jasper glad you enjoyed it. I hope to share many more adventures so SUBSCRIBE n stay tuned:)
Thanks mate, already subscribed. I used to enjoy your posts and stories on the fishnhunt forum many years ago. Looking forward to seeing your new stuff.
jaspersr awesome mate- now that the kids are a bit older and life is back on track i hope to slowly get more back into it again
I’ll be backpacking into the ANP in may as well, great time of the year. Good luck with your trip.
jaspersr awesome mate. Keep an eye out for someone in an old school blaze orange vest with holes in the back. Lol
That was so epic!! I really want to do that but the last part of the video makes me hesitant, I think I'll need to get my fitness level way better before attempting anything like that! Awesome video, I really enjoyed it 👍👍
Fantastic video....well done guys!
Mark Mitchell thanks mark - very enjoyable hunt. One ill look back on in years to come for surw
thats awesome stuff mate. thanks for sharing. great record of the trip!
Jonathan Davies thanks for watching- glad you enjoyed (watching us suffer on the way out lol)
haha, yep we have all been there - if we have been back in the thick stuff away from the roads. keep up the good work mate.
A great watch lads, thank you
dogrunnerlive1 cheers for watching. Next big backpack trip is May 2018
No probs, good luck again in May. Hope it all works out for you then as well
dogrunnerlive1 thanks - just being there is already a success!!
What an epic trip mate.
Video was class as!!
Bloody good!!
FindinG JoE thanks mate; glad you enjoyed it.
MountainMan HuntingFilms
How dp ypu rate that stoney creek puffer jacket?
FindinG JoE i was personally using a Kathmandu puffer (550), but Andre & Dave spoke very highly of their stoney creek puffers. They have a drizzle resistant repellant/coating... whereas my Kathmandu puffer would get wet easy.
FindinG JoE yeah mate Victoria high country is an awesome place - the camera never seems to do the country justice!
Nice work guys ... a for effort
aussieshootandhunt firearms 🤣👍
Awesome video guys
Hunter thanks very much. glad you enjoyed it
Awesome video mate....
jeet singh thanks
Great adventure, thanks! But hey, drag a deer head first to go with the hair. Essential if you are after a skin.
🙏 cheers Alain - yes I agree if you want to keep the skin don’t drag it a$$ first!
Mate, that was way better then meat eater. Cant wait to watch some of the other vidoes. Awesome video
WA Bream Anglers cheers brother!! awesome feedback. meat eater rocks
fucken epic adventure there fellas! this is sambar hunting!
Thanks HD, yeah mate this tested the mind and body!
Awesome vid mate! It looked like there was a lot more happening down low then up high? That was the case for me the few times i hunted along the river flats in the high country
Josh Glover thanks mate, yeah there was ALOT.more active sign down low. Some little bits of old sign up high but there wasn't as much food up high in August and I'm sure the snow would have made life fairly miserable for any animals above 1200m in the snowline! Thanks for watching
Mean video u guys are real dois heaps of samber were I live wanganui NZ
Nataha Thorne thanks . Wohld love to check out the wanganui herd one day
Gidday Jamie.Craig Munro here i worked with you at Dampier Mcmahons before you went to barrow island i think? how you doing. just been watching a few vids and you came up awsome stuff.
Craig Munro hey craig yeah i remember shesh thats going back 10 years now!! How time flies aye. Have you been chasing sambar much since? Hope we cross paths again mate
No mate in qld chinchilla looks like bloody hard work must be some closer to farm land haha cool vids will cross paths one day. Cheers.
Craig Munro no doubt farm fringe has more deer and possibly better quality with the improved pasture too but nothing beats the experience of going remote !
Great clip guys
Pat Blake thanks
great video,
Thanks wes
The 2nd time ive watched this and it just gets better. I love the excitement and the pics of your hunting adventures over the years with Andre. You are lucky to have a mate who you can spend these unforgettable moments with.
Can i ask a question Jamie.... Youve inspired me to do my first backpack hunt this coming season (most my hunts are on private property so the Alpine National park is something im very excited about)
I figure you and Andre would be the blokes to ask about a tent. What woud you recommend? There are so many reviews and opinions online, but id rather go with a recommendation from you. Cheer mate, James
Cheers James, very kind words mate. And happy to offer my 2c. A few questions before making any suggestions to you. Are you hunting with a mate, or a dog or are you just solo? Generally i would go for a 2man option either to share with a mate or to store all your stuff out of the weather. Do you want to hunt all 4 seasons? Do you have a budget?
@@MountainMan_NZ Really appreciate the reply Jamie. Im just watching video 2 of your Q&A :)
Ill be hunting on my own most times, but i think a 2 person would be ideal for a little extra room, and my brother will possibly join me when he can. So we share the same thoughts there. Budget isnt really an issue, as i believe in doing it right from the get go.
I will hunt all seasons except summer mate
@@JamesEastham cool mate, hope it wasn't too much rambling in the Q&A 🤣...so tents, maybe it's cos I am patriotic but I simply can't fault the NZ macpac or oldschool fairydown 4 season tents . macpac do a really robust single person tent www.macpac.co.nz/equipment/tents/hiking-tents/microlight-tramping-tent/114084-KWI00-OS.html but I agree with you going with a 2man is a better option so have a look at this one www.macpac.co.nz/equipment/tents/minaret-tramping-tent/114087.html?cgid=equipment-tents#start=3
Also, it's definitely worth adding a 3m x 3m fly to your arsenal for light weight trips in fair weather. Here are so.e I have used many times www.stoneycreekhunting.com.au/shop/category/lightweight-camping/bomber-fly.html Or this one www.stoneycreekhunting.com.au/shop/category/lightweight-camping/shelter.html
@@MountainMan_NZ Jamie, I can't thank you enough mate. Im amazed at the time and effort you put in with your viewers. Most fellas post their videos and that's it.
I share the same ethics and beliefs as you (especially in regards to the moment when you finally find your animal and have that excited but sad moment, and just being lucky enough to be doing what we do). Maybe thats why I love your vids so much. Huge thanks again mate 👍
No way man not a problem at all. I was fortunate enough to have someone introduce me to hunting, share knowledge and give me guidance , so I get a big kick out of doing the same. Thing I like about TH-cam platform is the content is accessible to everyone and free. Thanks again for the kind words mate, puts a spring in my step!
Great video!
David H thanks david
Really love your cerebral and intellectual approach to hunting, and the way you study the terrain, weather, and animals, it shows tremendous respect for the game you hunt. I also like the fact you're willing to hike deeper into the bush than most and you hunt on public land, where the animals have been subjected to enough hunting pressure to make it a "fair chase". Recently just finished Bruce Banwell's books on tahr, chamois, sika and red deer produced by the NZDA; planning my second hunting trip to NZ. Can't believe you left such a game rich country for Australia (we don't have as much public land available for hunting as NZ). I love the Alpine National Park as well; but it just doesn't compare to the beauty of the South Island of NZ. Great video once again and hope you keep posting.
David H very kind words thanks Dave. Yes it was very hard to leave nz and not a day goes by where i don't reflect on how fortunate to have such access. One day ill return to nz and pick up where i left off!! Glad you enjoyed the hunt - i have just returned from another backpack hunting trip into victorias alpine national park; so stay tuned :)
Awesome 👍
Dan Stevens glad you enjoyed
Quick question. I am a beginner to hunting and want to learn as much as possible. Can you explain why northern faces have less vegetation than southern faces? Because of the sun? Sun is practically never to be seen on the north. Should equate to more moisture compared to southern faces backed by the sun.
You are sort of on the right track but you have the concepts mixed up. South is wet, cold = more feed/ North is dry, hot = less feed).
A few reasons for it - and I am only surmising my thoughts on this in the Vic high country of Australia - and before I get started I want to qualify that there will be far more legitimate and far more comprehensive scientific reasons than what I share here, so I encourage you to research that question in more detail -but the northern facing slopes (which face towards the NORTH POLE) receive most of the suns rays during the day and therefore they are warmer, hotter, dryer. This means the bush and canopy cover has to deal with the harsher dry heat but also so do the soils. Generally (and I am being very general here) but generally the canopy cover on the northern facing slopes have less canopy cover (meaning a thinner under story which in turns means less leaf litter which in turn leads to less biomass on the ground creating less organic matter (which makes soil). So generally, I find the northern facing slopes to be hotter, dryer and also more rocky with less of a rich top soil. The southern facing slopes on the other hand are almost the opposite to that. They do not receive as much sunlight during the day and therefore it is relatively cooler, the soils generally retain more moisture and the canopy cover is generally thicker and does better. This in turn leads to more organic matter (leaf litter falling onto the ground on the southern face) and therefore the top soil layer is better and can often be a darker richer colour; hence bringing more growth and food sources. So generally I have found the southern faces hold more tucker; but the trap (I have found) is that the south faces is often nocturnal sign (i.e. they are feeding on those southern faces, or faces with more moisture during the night) and then transitioning to those warmer (northern, drier and generally more stony soil) north facing slopes to bed down for the day. In NZ we have a similar phenomena but to a lesser extreme of course - but it often leads to the growth of different variety of plants and trees that differ between north facing slopes (i.e. beech forest or tee-tree) vs south facing slopes with stands of podocarp species or pepperwoods (i.e. some areas of the Kaimanawas, Ahiminawas in the North Island). I am sure there are FAR better explanations than my brief attempt at answering that question - but yes you will notice differences in foliage between north faces and south faces, and in fact you will notice differences in forest types between country on the mansfield (WESTERN) side of the Great Dividing Range, versus forest types on the Dargo (EASTERN) side of the Great Dividing Range. Enjoy mate, being a deer stalker can be a very interesting learning experience!!
Thanks for a great reply and for taking the time! Had expected something more brief. I hunt moose, red deer, roe deer and caribou in Scandinavia. Guess not everything applies to my hunting but most is very similar. At least regarding moose and red deer. I have a question regarding sideling. If I have understood correctly that is a strategy you use when bush stalking? I.e. stalking across the topographic lines (not along) gaining and loosing elevation in order to find game trails along the topographic lines, and deer between feeding and bedding areas. Regarding winds in the morning and evening (down valley in the evening/early morning and up valley in the day), how do you factor that in to sideling? At last, great videos. Your last few films have something of a Donny Vincent aura over them. Very honest and unapologetic yet harmonious and vulnerable. Big compliment!
Just found out that sun path in different in northern and southern hemisphere. But the concepts are still the same. Thanks anyway!
@@KF-og4pd wow thanks mate, last comment (D.V), Very humbling.
oh right ok so you're in the northern hemishere, then you actually were correct in your earlier statement, sorry i wrongly assumed you were in australia or nz.
In Northern hemisphere, the Southern facing slopes are the warmer, drier, hotter faced. And Northern faces are colder, wetter. I would assume the soil types and organic matter would differ between the two different aspects, similarly to what we have here in aus or in nz... ie your northern faces would have more ferns and temperate species for instance.
Yes sidling is when gradually gaining or losing elevation while cutting across a face. A good example is that i will climb up a ridge and then sidle across a face towards a low hanging saddle.
The reason i sidle is to use the thermals, or catabatic winds that change from a downward breeze in the cooler parts of the night or dawn/dusk, to the rising thermals or upward breeze during the warmer parts of the day.
A good example would be if was sidling across a slope first thing in the morning while the wind was falling downhill, i would be sidling with the wind i my face and focusing my attention on all the country up slope and ahead of me. A gentle cross wind while sidling is ok as long as you are BELOW or at a similar contour as your quarry... if they are downslope of you then they will likely get your wind and be gone. I generally find the thermals change at around mid morning
After say 9.30am or 10am the thermals change as the day warms up and breeze will rise up slope. In this instance i will climb as high and as quick as i can up a ridge, then sidle with the wind rising up valley, while i focus my attention downslope and ahead of me.
@@KF-og4pd sorry only just read your message confirming sun paths are different in northern hemisphere vs southern hemisphere, (you got it before my big reponse, sorry for the double up!)
Hey Jamie,
How similar do you find hunting sambar and the deer you have hunted in NZ. I see that alot of the principles are the same eg wind, feeding time etc etc
Hi Jason, yes many of the same principles apply although sambar are definitely still an animal I have not mastered lol, they are less predictable than fallow or reds and similar to sika and rusa in terms of challenge. I love them though, Victoria sambar is hands down best experience 🙌 i do believe though that an experienced hunter with no sambar experience can still have success by applying the fundamentals!
@@MountainMan_NZ thanks mate, can't wait to see your next adventure
Loving these productions mate, what a great hunt you guys had. I have sent you a PM to if you don't mind having a look.Cheers
Luke McIntosh thanks mate. Ill take a look :)
Luke, where did you send the PM to? Suggest sending me an email to mountainmanhuntingfilms@gmail.com. Cheers
Email sent mate.
replied :)
wicked bro looks like some awesome country to be in .thanks for sharing . watched the tv episode too!
Snowing in Australia?
Who said global warming was a hoax?
Bob weve been snowed on a few times now. Love it. Brings the deer down and keeps them on their feet more during day