The chital challenge

For many trophy deer hunters around Australia, the thought of taking representative heads from all of our deer species crosses the mind at some point in our hunting career.

Red, fallow, hog, chital, rusa and sambar deer are dispersed all over our country and opportunities to hunt them are far greater now than ever. I had been hunting Queensland red deer for many years and taken several representative stags before the opportunity to hunt fallow deer eventuated and sometime after that, I took my first representative fallow buck.

My introduction to the Blond Bay Hog Deer Advisory Group (BBHDAG) ballot many years ago has presented me with two hog deer hunts in the Victorian Gippsland area, where I have taken two representative stags and a hind. Without the ballot, there is no way that I would have ever been in a position to hunt these