Thread: Taking the Hunt out of Hunting.

Good onya mate, I'm sort of in the same boat...I had the perfect opportunity to tag along with my brother in law over the years on the West Coast, he could have taught me everything I needed to know including 'where & how' to hunt the bush, river flats and scrub that he hunted with success. He died about 4yrs ago now and I rushed out and got my FAL so that I could keep his rifles in the family (that took about 2yrs +) as licenses were taking that long at the time. Anyhow...I'm now hunting those areas myself and having to teach myself & learn along the way, would have been waaaay easier if I had thought about it at the time and tagged along with old mate. Never mind, what's done is how it is, I got my first deer a few months ago and I've seen plenty in the area and that includes seeing deer in the flesh as well as setting up a game camera in our local spot. A couple of weeks ago I cruised spot X then made my way back through the bush to camp, didn't see anything but I KNOW they are there, I'll continue to teach myself and I'll keep going back and I WILL be successful, if you look at my latest posts I recently had 3 big healthy hinds in my scope at 27m....and I farking missed on 1st shot rofl. It was operator error and won't happen again. But yeah...long story short - tag along with someone who knows the drill when it comes to bush stuff...or like me just wing it and teach yourself .

Originally Posted by Twodiffs

Good onya mate, I'm sort of in the same boat...I had the perfect opportunity to tag along with my brother in law over the years on the West Coast, he could have taught me everything I needed to know including 'where & how' to hunt the bush, river flats and scrub that he hunted with success. He died about 4yrs ago now and I rushed out and got my FAL so that I could keep his rifles in the family (that took about 2yrs +) as licenses were taking that long at the time. Anyhow...I'm now hunting those areas myself and having to teach myself & learn along the way, would have been waaaay easier if I had thought about it at the time and tagged along with old mate. Never mind, what's done is how it is, I got my first deer a few months ago and I've seen plenty in the area and that includes seeing deer in the flesh as well as setting up a game camera in our local spot. A couple of weeks ago I cruised spot X then made my way back through the bush to camp, didn't see anything but I KNOW they are there, I'll continue to teach myself and I'll keep going back and I WILL be successful, if you look at my latest posts I recently had 3 big healthy hinds in my scope at 27m....and I farking missed on 1st shot rofl. It was operator error and won't happen again. But yeah...long story short - tag along with someone who knows the drill when it comes to bush stuff...or like me just wing it and teach yourself .

Your attitude is just the ticket. Keep it up. Only a matter of time before you enjoy sweet success.