MOVING somewhere new has its ups and downs for any keen hunter. It can open up a whole world of opportunities for new landscapes and new species. When I was offered a job in central Queensland I worked out I would be in the general vicinity of some great chital and rusa populations.
MY job had me dealing with landowners and station managers. I developed contacts. With a bit of good luck and good management my partner Taylah and I ended up living in a lovely two-bedroom farmhouse on a 6000-acre cattle station with a small but healthy population of chital.
I had hunted chital on a guided hunt up near the original release site at Charters Towers, Queensland. Up there you could sit on the veranda of the homestead and spot a hundred deer within cooee. But this was a whole new area, with much lower deer densities, and it took me a while to work out
