Understanding and appreciating animal traits and behaviours can improve a hunter’s chances of bagging game or scoring a long-pursued trophy beast. Sometimes it’s more a matter of accumulating knowledge and applying logic and reasoning, rather than trying to overthink or unsuccessfully outsmart game.
Simplistically, what’s essential for any living creature is food, water, shelter plus the right terrain and climatic conditions. As long as these settings prevail game tends to remain in the general area unless disturbed by excessive shooting, eradication measures or similar disturbances. Evidence of their presence will be apparent by their browsing, scat or droppings, tracks and used trails. Property owners’ observations are always invaluable as they are out most days driving around and note animals’ movements, times and likely places to cross them, especially around established crops and water storage places.
Aside from wild dogs that can indiscriminately predate on livestock like sheep and cattle, there are no real threats to medium and large game animals in Australia such as large predatory cats or wolves found in
