DAY HUNTER

. Without realising it, we are often guilty of looking past what others around the world can only dream of. I want to repeat something here: often, we hunters want the best available option of a successful hunt. That is smart thinking really, but at times we are also in danger of missing out on other aspects of the hunt – the experience and the challenge.

If you want to increase the level of satisfaction from your hunting, then simply increase the challenge and stack the odds against yourself more. You can do this in a number of ways, such as bowhunting for example. The other option is to hunt places where the odds are in greater favour of your quarry, or where there are fewer animals. I am talking about public land hunting folks. This is available to all of us and where we actually have to have a significant extra skill set to those of the farm hunter/shooter.

There are some real benefits of hunting public conservation land that you don’t fully realise until you do it. The fact is, the hunting is often harder there and to be consistently successful you have to be a better hunter. You have to work at it! The benefit is that once you have become that hunter,