Wangaratta

[Jason1]

Hi Guys
Going to Wangaratta on the weekend, has anybody got any ideas on where you go to hunt deer. Ive been to the dse sight and i know where you can hunt, but i am after some first hand knowledge.

thanks
Jason

[ricochet]

Jason- Send SNOWY1 , from this site a PM, he may be able to give you some good advice, Snowy lives in Wang.

Cheers,
Rick:)

[woody]

East....lol

[Jason1]

Thanks Rick
Already have i am hopefully seeing him friday morning after dawn service. The other site where i have been talking to him is down and didn't know if it would be back running before weekend. Needed a back up.

Thanks
Jason

[robvic]

Mate, any of the hills and mountains to the south and east around here have deer. I would keep away from the beechworth hills though, theyre rumoured to have deer, but apparently very scarce.
The upper buffalo river would be a good starting point, or lake william hovell area.

[Warlocke]

There is Red, Fallow and Sambar south east of Beechworth but there mostly in the Pine forests and very heavily spotlighted with guns.

From my experience they only venture out after dark and are very flighty.

[robvic]

I reckon people who spotlight deer need to go to jail. It is highly illegal, and in my opinion unethical.
I have nothing against people spotlighting rabbits and fox's, ive done ot plenty of times myself. Theyre vermin, deer are game.
Ive seen a lot of deer in the spotlight, and they have a very unfair disadventage against shooters/hunters.
Our local wildlife officer has nabbed plenty of people for spotlighting deer in the pines around here which is a good thing.

[high_country]

If your out lake william hovell way then its worth a trip down the evans creek track, its real thick down there and gets hit quite abit but there are deer in there.

[snowy1]

thanks rick ,
always happy to send some one in a hot spot ,;)

it's no secret ,deer are all over the north east of victoria ,
and as jason has said one can vist the dse web site and it give'S you broad area where to hunt but it is always grand to find someone on the ground that gets out amoung them to point you in the right direction ,:D
it's happened to me many times ....dont get me wrong i dont send newbies in to my really GREAT:P spots but i try and let em loose in some fairly good country

snowy

[spiderbait24]

thanks rick ,
always happy to send some one in a hot spot ,;)

it's no secret ,deer are all over the north east of victoria ,
and as jason has said one can vist the dse web site and it give'S you broad area where to hunt but it is always grand to find someone on the ground that gets out amoung them to point you in the right direction ,:D
it's happened to me many times ....dont get me wrong i dont send newbies in to my really GREAT:P spots but i try and let em loose in some fairly good country

snowy

good onya snowy.

[robvic]

If your out lake william hovell way then its worth a trip down the evans creek track, its real thick down there and gets hit quite abit but there are deer in there.

Mate i was driving into lake william hovell early one morning 2 years ago, and 2 sambar does bounced out of the road infront of me about 50 metres from the boatramp and missed the front of my car by a matter of inches. I was only in 2nd gear!!