Hunting Categories

One ticket is entry to as many of the categories as you like.
One animal per category per child, the same animal cannot be weighed more than once.

Average weight across all age groups - Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd 

  • Average Possum
  • Average Turkey
  • Average Hare/Rabbit
  • Average Rat
  • Average Fish (any legal sized fish excluding stingray, shark or eel)
  • Average Stoats/Ferrets 

Junior (8yrs and under) - Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd 

  • Overall Hunter - awarded to the child with the highest combined weight from their entries in the Average Possum, Turkey, Hare/Rabbit, Stoats/Ferrets, Rat, and Fish categories.

Senior (9yrs and older) - Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd 

  • Overall Hunter - awarded to the child with the highest combined weight from their entries in the Average Possum, Turkey, Hare/Rabbit, Stoats/Ferrets, Rat, and Fish categories.

 

Open - Note: Junior and Senior entrants from the same hunting party can be combined for one entry in these three open categories only.

Important: Possums and mice can be counted in either Most Pests or their individual categories (Most Possums and Most Mice), but not both. At weigh-in, competitors entering Most Pests must nominate where their possums and mice will be counted.

  • Most Possums
    • $500 cash prize 1st place
    • $200 cash prize 2nd place
    • $100 cash prize 3rd place

  • Most Pests total of Possums, Hares, Rabbits, Carp, Geese, Rats, Magpies, Peacocks, Turkeys, Stoats, Ferrets and Mice (Only the listed pests are eligible for this category)
    • $300 PGG Wrightson voucher 1st place
    • $200 PGG Wrightson voucher 2nd place
    • $100 PGG Wrightson voucher 3rd place

  • Most Mice
    • $60 cash prize 1st place
    • $40 cash prize 2nd place
    • $20 cash prize 3rd place