Species guides

What will you hunt?

Australia has some of the best free-range hunting on earth: six deer species, huge pig and goat populations, and the only dangerous game in the Pacific. Pick your quarry and find the country that holds it.

Sambar Deer

Rusa unicolor

Australia's premier free-range big game animal

Fallow Deer

Dama dama

The classic Australian rut hunt, croaking bucks every April

Red Deer

Cervus elaphus

The roar of autumn across the ranges

Chital Deer

Axis axis

North Queensland's spotted axis deer on the big cattle stations

Rusa Deer

Rusa timorensis

Coastal NSW's winter-rutting stags

Hog Deer

Axis porcinus

Gippsland's tightly managed once-a-year trophy

Feral Pig

Sus scrofa

Australia's number one pest animal and most popular hunt

Feral Goat

Capra hircus

Spot and stalk rangeland hunting with big-horned billies

Water Buffalo

Bubalus bubalis

The Top End's dangerous game on the great floodplains

Fox

Vulpes vulpes

Whistling red foxes at last light

Rabbit & Hare

Oryctolagus cuniculus / Lepus europaeus

The classic Australian starter hunt

Duck & Waterfowl

Anas superciliosa and others

Decoys at dawn on private wetlands