Australia...

Sorry for dragging up a really old topic with my first post, it's just that it's the topic that made me want to join this forum as I feel it is unanswered.

I don't want you guys to come here and be disappointed. There is literally no land whatsoever to hunt, unless you happen to know a farmer. Every inch of australia is owned by someone, if not farmers then by the government who has a mountain of rules dictating what you can't do on their land, and btw their land is number 2 anyway, our state forests are not owned because the land is worthless, to humans, and it happens to follow worthless to animals as well. You will only find snakes and lizards and ants in our state forests, maybe wallabies which you can't hunt anyway.

It's unusually barren crappy land, and I'm not even talking about the desert which takes up most of australia, the desert is actually better than our state forests. It has more going on, but it's still crap.

Now if you make a connection with a land owner, then yes you are laughing. Some of our cattle and sheep stations are the size of european countries. I have a great aunt who has to drive 2 hours to her own mailbox, and yes it is awesome when I take the dogs out there, but it's extraordinarily far from where I am so I've only been there like twice.

If you're just some fool driving around with dogs looking for somewhere to let them loose to chase pigs or whatever else, you will never find anywhere. It's almost baffling. I've been trapsing around the country looking for about 20 odd years and there is no where, and trust me when I say even australia is overpopulated. You can be in the middle of nowhere and find a creek which would be nice to let your dogs have a swim and you will definitely run into a bunch of other dirtbag people that had the same idea. So yeah, 23 million people, but all the land is taken by about 4000 people, and then you have nearly 23 million people all fighting over the few acres that are left.

I often marvel over the fact americans can just go to the woods and go camping or whatever on tv, it just seems like there is so much more spare land in the US than here in australia. To be honest even in england, too. It seems like they can just go wander off into a forest if they so desire, we can't.
There's honestly no where to go. Again, unless you know a landowner or are a landowner.

I've given up and intend to be a landowner, will be in 2015, there's no other way. Can only afford a couple of hundred acres but that will be heaven to me. Australia might seem lightly populated on paper but trust me when I say the population is still very very stifling for an outdoorsmen, it turns out 20 million is way way too many people for a landmass this size.