Thread: New to hunting

Try getting down lower into the Red Beech forest where it can be a bit more open. Try and cover a fair bit of ground at first to suss out where they are. Quite a few will whistle at you. Once you are in a good area then start stalking. Move one step at a time and look around and through each tree supplejack thicket and mingimingi bush to make sure there isn't a deer there. If one whistles, there about a 1/3 chance of seeing it. Try and circle to downwind and preferably above it. Easier said than done but you don't have to be super quiet in this situation as they already know you are there. Just one mistake by the deer and it's waltzing matilda with you.

Another strategy in that area is to get up a bit onto the spurs off the main range or down towards Lotkow and Macintosh and spy out over some clay pans from a distance. Lookout for contorta forest - very prickly and horrible.

All the best.