Australian Hunter

Around the campfire with John Denman

Wild deer have been back in the news again, and for the usual reason. There’s far too many of them in some areas. This is nothing new to those of us who hunt them, but an ABC report claimed that recreational hunting isn’t making much of a dent in numbers. I can understand why.

The problem, as I see it, is that some hunters have

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