Sporting Shooter

The hog deer obsession

My good mate Nick has the same obsessive personality as I do. Everything we do, we do to the nth degree, and we leave no stone unturned. When it comes to the pursuit of hog deer, there’s no difference.

NICK and I began scouring every piece of hog deer habitat we could to learn their behaviours, where the numbers were concentrated and why they thrived in some areas and not others. We researched as many of the hunting areas as we could, which consisted of me doing weekend missions: driving the six hours down on Fridays and back home Sunday night for many weekends over a 12-month period.

It became so addictive it got to the

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