Thread: How often are you successful?

success is very difficult to judge. As mentioned by others the number of animals seen varies immensely on where you are looking. We had a private block up until recently. Every time we went out we would see literally dozens of animals - pig/deer but only ever take one. the rest of the time we would just watch and learn. The best day I ever had out hunting was on this block. We had shot our one deer on the first day and the second day we were just wandering around with the rifle on the odd chance an easy pig wandered out just to mix it up in the freezer a bit. Watched a fallow slowly feeding in the sun and then from behind a bush a youngun comes bounding across on those spindly legs and starts suckling from mum and playing around her feet. We watched this completely enthralled for a good 10 mins. That is one of the most memorable 'hunts' i have had.
We have now lost that block due to it being sold and are back to public land. I know from experience that now we will rarely see anything except goats and even if we do the chances of a shot are slim as they are jumpy as hell. But wont stop us enjoying just being out there...
And if anyone knows of private land I could hunt with the family somewhere in the top of the south by all means let me know...lol