by bigpete » 31 Mar 2024, 9:56 am
Well,I'm going to attempt to do a thread based on my first hog deer hunt.
I'm already behind the 8 ball a bit,I was originally going to leave yesterday morning from Goolwa SA and arrive in Gippsland today around lunchtime ready to hunt first thing tomorrow morning for 2 weeks.
Unfortunately plans have had to change if I want my offsider to come along,so now I'm leaving 1pm this arvo and I need to be back by next Sunday night.
I've got everything as sorted as I can considering I've never hunted them before. Taking my Howa superlite 308 with handloaded 165gn SGKs topped with a leupold vx1 2-7x32. I have a decent quality folding chair backpack and some shooting sticks,and a good quality hammock bought at the advice of a very successful public land hog deer hunter. For once I'll actually be wearing camo including a blaze orange cap. Tags and licenses are in the pack.
Have been told the mosquitoes are insane so have a solar powered bug zapper for camp and 2 tubes of tropical strength Bushman's, as well as an oztent rv4 waiting over there for me to pick up.
Beach fishing rods and tackle are packed ready to go in case we decide to go fishing.
Camera and bird watching equipment is packed.
First day I'm going to try to get to Green Hill Lake campground before dark. Not likely it'll happen though. Already started the day pretty crappy,been crook all night plus the offsider hasn't got her s**t sorted ( clothes for the trip are on the line drying instead of packed,fishing rod has no tackle,food for the week is a bunch of grapes and half a dozen small tins ). So right at this very moment I'm pretty pissed off. But it'll come good once we're moving