Thread: Advice for new hunters?

Planning, and patience is a big one. Chose an area you want to hunt, and from that area pick the areas you think are likely to hold animals, sunny faces, slips, clearings etc, and use a bit of reverse logic if you're hunting big open country you want to look for areas that provide shelter and water, scrubby guts with creeks, fingers of bush etc, planning ahead is important so you dont waste time bumbling around the least likely areas. Hunt the mornings and the evenings and use the daytime to move about and scope out likely areas to check out at those morning and evening times.
Don't just think to yourself "there's no animals in that area" because you haven't had any luck previously, if you're seeing sign then you need to look at your game plan. Glass heaps, get into position and spend evenings and mornings glassing, think about what the wind is doing and remember if the day is warming up your scent will carry up hill and if it's cooling down it will carry downhill. Think of every trip as a learning experience even if you don't spot any game.
I hunted heaps with my dad when I was a young fella and when I started hunting by myself I was a typical young fella that thought I knew best and I would bowl up and down hills and all over the show with no real game plan, glass places for five minutes then get bored and carry on and I never had much success untill I decided maybe there was some merit to the way dad taught me to hunt.