Thread: DOC land - The real Hunters bragging rights?

The way I look at it wherever you hunt you need the odds on your side not the animals. By that I mean every gully you look into you need the advantage, in that you need to know the animal is there before the animal knows your there. Then you have time, and if you have time you can make some good decisions. Mr Fants I notice you hunt open country mostly. So there’s 2 things you need to do I reckon. One thing is get above the animals you are trying to find. Two reasons, animals look down hill about 90% of the time because that’s where 90% of lazy people are, and secondly animals are way easier to see from above. You are looking down into the scrub, and you can see between the bushes and you will see more of the animal (the body) not just the top of the neck and head peering down at you from above. Secondly you want to be above them looking down into areas where they are feeding (gully heads, little basins, slips anywhere there’s green shiny grass) in the first two hours and last hour of light cause that’s when they are standing up feeding and moving around. That makes them so much easier to pick up. Animals sitting down are soooo much harder to pick up. So do the figures, you probably need to be walking in the dark a lot or camping high. I do the latter. It’s about being in the right place at the right time and those places are usually where other people haven’t already done over.