Thread: Useless at bush hunting

Firstly, you're not useless, you're learning and learning takes time and persistence. I've been hunting for a bit over two years, the deer I've bagged have been on feral on stations. My public land hunting has resulted in zero deer on the deck so far. I use google earth to identify area's that look like they will hold deer and over time that has honed my intuition about where they are going to be. I started out with long armed walks and not even seeing any real sign, then I started to get onto sign and then fresh, like this morning fresh sign and then I started finding animals...from a distance as they charged off because I was intent on "making progress" rather than stopping and looking.

My most memorable was up above the Lindis. I spent a couple hours slogging my way up onto a open ridge, worked along it for half an hour and stopped for a brew. Whilst the billy was on I was just sitting there, scanning a bit and enjoying the view......after maybe 15 minutes two, yes TWO spikers came up from below, skirted the bowl directly below me and came up to my left and popped over the ridge behind me.......the whole time this was happening I was cursing myself for leaving my rifle over there-------------------->

Lesson learned the hard way, keep going, you WILL get there