Thread: Bush Stalking Advice

Oh - and I see somewhere 'what do yer do if a deers barking at you ?'

That deer's barking because she knows your there - and she knows exactly where you are. Mostly you can kiss those deer goodbye, but if the country permits it - then go like the clappers towards those deer (run) - they aren't expecting it and I've got a few doing that. I caught one standing there so shocked I felt guilty shooting it - but I did.

I also had a stag grunting at me as I was hammering in a possum trap ...................
"Gonna get yourself shot doing that you silly bugger."
"Grunt ........ grunt."

So I looked up and there he was off to the side of me, his head almost to the ground so he could have a good look. So we 'talked' some more before he quietly wandered up the hill and I went and laid more traps.

It's pretty hard to tell exactly where you're gonna find deer - I move up and down the hill depending on the time of day and I just see them when I see them. Often they've seen me first, so I used to do a lot of practice snap shooting out my bedroom window at the chimneys in the neighbourhood and got pretty good at getting away a quick shot.
My longest ever shot at a deer was in the pissing rain and I aimed over it's back and smacked it thrpough the boiler room. That was across a big gully and I reckon it was over 300 yards - maybe closer to 400 yards.
The next longest shot at a deer was maybe 80 yards ......... and all the rest from about 2 yards to 30.

I hunted one place for over twenty years, it was tight as buggery and I never saw another person in there - but the deer were there and I took quite a few out of there. So my advice is find a place and learn all you can about it. There'll be places you will hardly ever see a deer, so you scoot through those places to get where you've learned the deer will be ..... then you start looking in earnest.