Tricks of the trade
Back in the day, I regarded bow-hunting deer as maybe bordering on impossible but still a hunting challenge I could not resist. True, in 1998 when I first carried a bow into the Brisbane Valley ranges, success seemed a long way away.
Admittedly, I worked my butt off before taking that first red stag and now, after many years of bowhunting both red and fallow deer, I can confidently state that it’s not really much easier. But it can be done.
All that aside, the tactics and strategies I’ve learned could well be of real value to deer hunters of all persuasions. The point is that if these tactics have seen me get within arrow range of deer, they surely must assist both bow and rifle hunters.
Telling it as it is
Where I walk the hills in Queensland there’s very steep going and not many deer either. But an advantage comes with lots of little timbered gullies to quietly sneak around in. To move within 40m of totally free-range deer takes a lot more than sheer good luck and simply walking off
