I had my recent annual trip up to sambar country from Tassie. Hunting was hard due to bushfire regrowth but I found a great looking wallow on the 3rd day, I could see from 30-40m off that it was well used with mud up the trunks of all the near by trees and there was a freshly used preaching tree with fresh scrapes.

Remembering what you said in the book about not scenting the area I backed out slowly and sat off it from about 110m. Just before dark I heard on three occasions a deer stamping its foot it the bush but I didn’t see anything. I had my leafy suit on with face mask and gloves but was only lying behind a fallen tree branch.

The next day we went back in the middle of the day to make a better hide. Then an hour before dark I returned to the hide and sure enough about 10mins before dark a nice 23 inch stag walked out of the bush 70m away and I harvested him.

Thanks again for sharing you knowledge.

Andrew Rosser, Tasmania