About John Teitzel and Tusker Productions
I was born in the small cane growing town of Tully North Queensland Australia and with feral animals within a stones throw of town my passion for hunting began at an early age eventually taking up bowhunting 1983.
I began videoing hunts in 1992. These early efforts were received favourably by both locals and interstate hunters. In early 2000 I formed Tusker productions, encouraged by the favourable reception to my early attempts, in May 2000 I produced and released "Backpack Hunting for Hogs". Response to "Backpack" was so encouraging I decided to produce one hunting video per year concentrating my efforts on continually improving sound, video, and editing quality in each subsequent release. May 2001 saw the release of "Boars and Barramundi" an 86 minute canoe journey down the Mitchell River. For "Boars and Barra" I enlisted the service of a second cameraman and proffesional video editing company S Y Video Vision.
Each of the current releases have different storylines and feature a mix fishing, wildlife, bush tucker (bush food) information, all the aspects needed for an easy watching and enjoyable movies.
John Teitzel.
Questions click questions for answers
Q 1: When and what made you become involved in the sport of archery?
Q 2: What was your first type of equipment set-up?
Q 3: What type of archery do you enjoy the most?
Q 4:  What is your favourite bow arrow set-up?
Q 5: What and when was your first kill and where was it taken?
Q 6: Do you have a hunt that is a particular favourite?
Q 7: What would you describe as your greatest moment in huntingthroughout your years of involvement in the sport? 
Q 8: What would you say is your worst moment whilst you were bowhunting?
Q 9: What is your favourite game animal to hunt with the bow and arrow and why?
Q 10: Are there animals that you would one day like to get the chance to hunt?
Q 11: How often do you practise?
Q 12: How would you describe your shooting style?
Q 13: What is the most important aspect that you try and get from your sport?
Q 14: In a few words can you say what the sport means to you?
Q 15: Who would you say has had the most influence on you throughout your years
of involvement in bowhunting and archery and why?
Q 16: What other interests do you have apart from bowhunting and archery?
A 1: back .....When I saw the antics of the local club "The Tully Bowhunters" at the Rain Festival which is held here every wet season. They had made a giant pig's head on a Landcruiser chasing a wounded bowhunter down the main street. I thought to myself I gotta' have some of what these fellows are on. Now I know what pure adrenalin  can do to you. Before long Albert Agale, Ted Salleras, Colin Venturato and myself had a trip planned to the Basalt Wall where I nailed my first boar (I was hooked!)
A 2: back .....A make-shift backpack and quiver, brownie camera, a pair of vollies and a forty-five pound Bear Recurve with timber shafts. Come to think of it, not much has changed in fifteen years.
A 3: back .....Flip a coin!
Making a set of hunting arrows, getting together with mates at the Club, tracking a good boar, stalking a good boar or to put in the perfect shot on a good boar, that first beer after long successful day's hunting, to run a tape over a thirty points plus set of tusks or the sounds you hear and the thoughts you have when you are lying in your swag last thing at night.....I can't pick, can you?!
A 4: back .....Either a recurve or longbow, both are hard to beat for my hunting needs. At the moment I shoot a seventy pound Hatfield Take Down recurve with a bow quiver and 2219 Alloys with Allan Davies Heads. This combination gives me the edge at close range and when shooting through thick cover.... Although longbows are lighter to carry and more forgiving.
A 5: back .....On my first trip to the Basalt Wall with Albert Agale I took a twenty seven point boar with my first arrow at an animal. From that moment on I knew the bow was for me.
A 6: back .....In the early days when I was travelling around Australia, I went goat hunting in South West Queensland with Col Ross and Tony Knight from Toowoomba. Earlier this day I shot my first goat, a hundred and thirteen points billy. That afternoon we saw a boar come in on a dam, so we stalked down on him. I stayed near the top of the wall while Tony crept down on the boar in his wallow.
At twenty meters he stopped to shoot but I motioned him to get closer. Fifteen meters he stopped to shoot and again I urged him closer and it went on. At eight meters there was no way he was going any further.
He took the boar through the ear. It travelled about twenty-five meters. It was his first decent boar with a bow. The look on his face and the excitement he showed will stay in my memory forever. I felt proud to be a part of it.
A 7: back .....I'll have to have more than one moment.....
 My record class buff with one arrow from a longbow.
 My Chital stag taken at the Basalt Wall in ' 98.
 The stalking and taking of my thirty-three points plus boars........All moments in the bush are good, but these are special.
A 8:
back		 .....On our yearly ten day trip in ' 96 my hunting mate Kim Alderman was gored by a wounded boar. From that initial attack at seven a.m. until getting him into Mareeba Hospital at four p.m. That was my worst hunting day.
A 9: back .....Those creatures with the snouts that escaped from Captain Cook back in the 1700's, they are my favourites. iI is a sort of a love-hate relationship we have. Even though I've taken eleven record class and over fifty trophy class boars with the bow I still love them to death.
A 10:
back		 .....Seven years ago I was all but on a plane to Canada to hunt bears, when my wife fell pregnant with our first child so that ended that little escapade.
I would still like to fulfill that dream one day and also hunt big horn sheep. I reckon that would be the ultimate challenge.
A 11: back .....Our club meets every three weeks so we give the 3D's a workout then. Other than that, only before a hunt. I shoot both field points and broadheads for practice.
A 12: back .....Natural - if it feels and looks good..let it go! I have never been shown how to throw a stone or a dart so I reckon there is only one style of shooting an bow.
The game I hunt never seems to stand still or at a set distance for any length of time, so aiming must be instinctive or a natural reaction.
A 13:
back		 .....Apart from the bowhunters' educational camps for young club members, I enjoy taking novices and juniors on trips away to get their first kills and teach them some bush craft so hopefully one day they can fulfill their own bowhunting dreams.
A 14: back .....Mateship, Challenge and Adrenalin.
A 15: back .....For mateship at Club level any and all Tully Bowhunters - Slosh, Keable, Hairy, Squid, Warey, Albo, Ted & Co., all took a small part.
Bill Hill,; for setting the benchmark of the Australian Record for boar of 36 4/8 in 1982; that gave us something to chase and keep our sights set high.
Howard Hill's - ' Hunting the Hard Way' is my bible; I must have read it cover to cover ten times already. 
A 16: back .....Fresh water fishing and canoeing are a great pastime of mine. I have also just released my first hunting video - "Bowhunting The Traditional Way", so I'm endeavouring to better this aspect.
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