Thread: August Hunting

Yes they are hard work up there @dannyb. You have to get well away from the tracks and pick a good solid game trail and sidle into the wind looking up and down the gullies. I have always had to wait til right on dusk and by that time its getting a bit parky and its a long long way home in the dark.

When the temperature drops to the point the inversion starts and the cold mountain air starts falling down hill, that’s a bloody good time to start glassing the bushline above you, looking for the animals popping out on the scrubby clearings. You only have a while so the day needs to be spent scouting for strong sign.

Once before when there were 3 or 4 trucks parked at the homestead and I walked up to Broken River Hut and had the place to myself, but the climb up the spur upstream from there was pretty brutal. Thinking about it now there have been two nights out in the bivvy bag under the fly up there, due to being way too far from the hut after the kill and field dressing to get back safely. It is busy sometimes up there, but the animals are around.