Layton Lake Season?

[Hidden Gunman]

Anyone know what season it is on the Layton reserve?

I'm from South Australia, and the night and day cycle (and weather) throws me a bit. Dusk at 1830 is a mid autumn or early spring thing for us...dusk in summer her comes around 2130, and dawn around 0430, roughly. Winter it's always bleak and overcast for a couple of months because of the Southern Ocean weather (as in totally overcast for three or four weeks at a time, no clear patches at all).

Hint for the devs, we also have four or five hunting reserves with cape buff, half a dozen deer species, antelopes, goat, and a few other exotics. Feral pig is becoming common in the river systems, and dingos (both pack and solitary) and dingo-crossbreeds have infiltrated past the dog fence into the settled areas. Hint hint....

[Old Goat]

It is not fall since dawn in Layton is at 0500hrs and night begins at 1900hrs. Really doesn't make a lot of sense using callers that work best during the peak of the rut (for Moose that would be the Sep-Oct time frame and for northern deer it's in the very late Oct-Nov time frame). I "think" it's supposed to be fall in the game regardless of the reserve.

I think Australia would be an interesting place to hunt. Don't know if it's like New Zealand which has lately imported Whitetail deer on some reserves and some monster Red Stags. Here's a brief note: Did you know that England (where Red Deer became non-existent due to poaching way back in the middle ages) reintroduced some because historically, her highness served roasted red deer to the members of the parl annually as a special treat? Wanna guess where the got the red deer they reintroduced? Hint: big continent in the southern hemisphere.

[Hidden Gunman]

I didn't know that. But it's not surprising, as there aren't any deer predators other than a few hunters (the deer are inside the dog fence, although dingo and dingo hybrids are multiplying inside it).

We also export camels to the middle east, as breeding stock and racing camels. We have a LOT of camel, they are a real pest.

I've even seen evidence of numbers of ostrich in SA's north and the Northern Territory. African exotics crop up occasionally, but sourcing where they originated from is hard...and there is always the fabled 'black cats'.

Even some folk who claim the tasmanian tiger and thylacoleo still exist...

[Old Goat]

Thylacoleo? First I've heard of it. What manner of beast is it?

[Hidden Gunman]

Originally posted by Reallyoldguy:

Thylacoleo? First I've heard of it. What manner of beast is it?

Thylacoleo is the australian marsupial lion. Supposed to have died out 25-30 000 years ago.

Basically it was a puma sized bunch of muscles with a jaw that opened like a bear trap, and it's incisors were spade shaped massive cutters. It primarily preyed on dipotrodon, which were cape buffalo sized grazing marsupials, like hairy hippos (size and shape). It killed them by either severing their spine in the neck, or biting their throats out. Strongest bite strength of any known mammal. A decayed carcass was found decades ago at the foot of a massive cliff in the great dividing range that allegedly could have been one (very isolated country through the Divide), but was too far decayed to examine (pre-dna, as well). Up in the isolated country, there are sightings of something that resembled them, but no photos.

The tasmanian tiger is the Thylacine, marsupial, but looks like a stripey dog. Last known one died in the 1930's. There's footage of it on youtube. Again, alleged sightings, but no evidence.

[Old Goat]

Well then, I certainly would not like to meet a Thylacoleo on a camping trip. They should put some of those in Monster Hunt.

[Hidden Gunman]

Originally posted by Reallyoldguy:

Well then, I certainly would not like to meet a Thylacoleo on a camping trip. They should put some of those in Monster Hunt.

The early aboriginals had to deal with all that only with sharp rocks and wooden spears. **** that for a joke.

[yogisgoat]

It must be fall at Layton Lakes because the whitetails are sporting antlers with no velvet on them.

[Hidden Gunman]

Thanks, its a bit mish mashy it seems.