Thread: Help a newby hunter.

Mate I wouldn't be talking about success rates and to be frank if thats the way you want to look at it you might be choosing the wrong passion.
This question comes up a bit here and there by newbies and I always say the same thing. Deer hunting isn't about killing deer and really it's not even about seeing them. You need to just love being in the bush, escaping everything else in life, hearing all the sounds, smelling all the smells, seeing all the sights and always learning. Learning more about the bush, the birds and animals and the deer among many many other things. Just enjoy being out there and the rest will take care of itself.
So the long and the short yes you are being impatient - not having a go but thats the answer. I've been fortunate to grow up in a hunting family so have done it for over 10 years and I've been very blessed to be rewarded with some nice heads in my time, but what you don't see are the months, years, sweat, blood and tears in between every head that I've ever taken and at the end of the day those are the things that make hunting so special to me. The odd person gets lucky and takes a big deer early or shoots a heap in one go and flukey things like that but for the majority of us there is a hell of a lot of hard work to it. If it were easy everyone would do it and it'd be boring anyways. I've hunted sambar here for 3 years and am yet to take a stag. Seen several and had my chances at some just not what I'm looking for, but I don't care and I won't care if it's another 3 years before I take one.
Hunting is very addictive and at the end of the day can get pretty expensive once you get sucked in to buying all the gadgets but there is no point if your not really in it for the right reasons. I've got a mate here who is the same, it's just a matter of time before he chucks it in because all he cares about is putting animals on the ground and cracks the shits when he doesn't or when someone else does instead of him.