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    I'm a bad sleeper, so am too tired/lazy to get up early except during the roar.
    My hunting would consist of 95% bush stalking.
    No rivers, slips, clearings, tops etc

    Usually start hunting around 10am after a lazy lie in and breakfast/cuppa etc.
    More of the deer/pigs I have shot have been mid to late afternoon.
    Around 2pm to 4pm with 3pm being a particular magic time.
    Also 11am seems to be another minor magic time.

    Not so many for me in the last hour as I use this time to navigate back to camp, then the last push via headlight.
    I'm usually camped a couple of hours in from the nearest car park.
    Certainly spook a few during this time.
    Spook plenty at other times, but I have a feeling a lot of those are bedded down, while the ones I shoot are feeding or up for a bit of a stretch.

    Winter, Spring and Autumn.
    Don't hunt as much over December through to end of February as leaving the fawns to grow and wean off the hinds.
    That and also its hot, flies, mozzies and long days.
    Trout, Micky Duck, RUMPY and 3 others like this.

 

 

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