Starting out in Australia

[Mudguts]

G’day Everyone
I’ve been watching many a YouTube clip and looking at websites, listening to podcasts and reading lots about saddle hunting. I can’t find anything on it in Australia. However I’m keen to get into it as I’ve also only recently started bow hunting as well, I’ve been a rifle hunter since I was a kid. I’ve already picked up heaps of tips and plenty of DIY ideas from this forum in only a week.

cheers everyone

 

[MaxJac]

Welcome mate! Greetings from NC to down under.

 

[Weldabeast]

Welcome.....
Bow hunting feral cat, dogs, goats and hogs looks like much fun down there

Would u mind explaining what all is required for u to be legal to hunt in ur country

 

[JASmith]

Welcome from Indiana! Also interested in hearing more of what game you will be hunting with bow. Thanks

 

[bj139]

Welcome from Southeast Pennsylvania.

 

[DanO]

Welcome from Michigan! You're not the only saddle hunter in Australia, there are others, not sure if they are on this forum though.

 

[Gumbymedic]

Welcome from Toledo, Ohio!

 

[Exhumis]

Welcome from Northern Virginia

 

[Deltahuntr]

Welcome from Louisiana! I believe there are members in Australia. Check the map at link below.

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[Homebrew454]

Welcome from SE Wisconsin. Australia is a very beautiful country! I loved my visits there. A few more places I have to visit there yet though.

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[Bigterp]

Welcome from Maryland!

 

[Hawkeye Bowhunter]

Welcome aboard from Western NY! Lots of good stuff and great folks here!

 

[Knik]

Welcome from the mountains of Tennessee, this site and these folks are "Information Overload". Darn good people! Hope to see some of your hunting success on this forum in the future.

 

[redsquirrel]

Welcome to the site!

 

[Mudguts]

Welcome.....
Bow hunting feral cat, dogs, goats and hogs looks like much fun down there

Would u mind explaining what all is required for u to be legal to hunt in ur country

G’day Weldabeast

I can only speak of the states I’ve lived in. You don’t require a licence to own a compound or recurve bow, however you need a licence for a crossbow. You need a licence for any type of firearm, air rifles included, a special class of licence is required to own a pump action rifle/ shotgun. A higher class of licence is required for a semi automatic rifle/shotgun.
In Queensland you can only hunt on private property, deer are classed as feral animals so no game licence is required to hunt them.
I currently live in Victoria, here we are required to have a game licence to hunt deer. There isn’t a tag system for any of the deer species, we can hunt them all year round pretty much. We have state forrests( public land) that we can hunt in Victoria as well as private property.
That’s a fairly basic explanation of hunting in Aus.

 

[Mudguts]

Welcome from Indiana! Also interested in hearing more of what game you will be hunting with bow. Thanks

Hello JASmith
I plan on hunting all our small game animals such as rabbits, foxes and then up to pigs,goats and all of our deer species. We have Sambar, fallow, rusa, red, hog deer and chital (axis).

 

[Mudguts]

Welcome from Louisiana! I believe there are members in Australia. Check the map at link below.

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Hey Deltahuntr
Thanks for that, it’d be great to chat to fellow aussies who are already saddle hunting.

 

[Mudguts]

Welcome from the mountains of Tennessee, this site and these folks are "Information Overload". Darn good people! Hope to see some of your hunting success on this forum in the future.

G’day Knik
Information overload is an understatement
I think I could spend 24/7 on the forum and still not read it all. My wife has lost me to another type of hunting that I’m quickly becoming obsessed with

 

[Weldabeast]

Is the thylacine still alive or not?

 

[Mudguts]

About as alive and elusive as the Sasquatch