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Martin Auldist

MAJOR HUNTING INFLUENCES, MENTORS, WRITERS, FRIENDS, PARENTS ETC.

My Dad never hunted but he fished and he took us rabbit trapping, so he had the hunting instinct but, being a surgeon, I guess he never had time to express it properly. I’ll never forget catching our first rabbit from a warren near Birchip in the Mallee region of Victoria (where my family is from). I couldn’t believe it and from that moment I was hooked on hunting and the outdoor

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