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Nitrox and Daryl, thank you for your kind comments also. Hunting territories, as pastures do, look always greener on the other side of the fence !

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One of the hunts I posted on NE about, where I was invited to hunt, the first year, I knew we were walking on land where we did not have permission, for a few hundred metres. The next year, I found out EVERY place we had hunted was the same ...

In the outback sometimes the fences are not internal fences. Big place. A lot of locals never have permission. Can be repercussions. One property I hunted on with permission, they told me about some good places across the fence. The buffalo don't adhere to property line fences after all. Certain types of landowners do next to nothing to manage their properties and next to zero feral control.

In some parts of the world, people get very worked up about it. Other parts it is pretty common. Part of the cultural differences in life.

I do like to have proper permission. Makes life a lot easier. And also as a landowner I expect people to get permission from me as well. Unless serious or for some reason I just tell people to get off, politely, and never involve the police. We have never actually refused permission to anyone who politely asks, and who makes them known to us. With a lot of the new generation of landowners, padlocks and no trespassing signs are pretty much standard and no one gets permission. Greedy selfish pricks. And I can tell you, they still expect the earth in return. Entitlement arseholes.

Paying for hunting used to be non existent in Australia, it was always free, or a gift. Most hunting is still the same. The outfitters in areas such as the Top End have ffffed it up by paying for exclusive access. Unless one's skin is black, only a few people get free hunts nowadays. BTW I don't mind paying a reasonable fee for good hunting, self hunting access. If the hunting is good. We don't have the often European model of hunting leases, paying big money for exclusive hunting and management of wildlife.

Enough ranting, love your hunting stories.

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John aka NitroX

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