Gentlemen, can anyone explain the hunting oppotunities in Western Australia.
The wife is pressuring me to go since she used to live in Perth a few years back before we got married...
At present I live in South Island of NZ and do a lot of deer hunting, reds, fallow and so forth.

I believe that you can only hunt on private land is that right? Do you have to join a club? What about firearms licensing and so forth?

hunting only on private land, firearms license through either a club or with a letter from a land owner if club only can only be used aa a club. animals - fallow and some reds down south cammels and donks up north, also a few pigs up north and quite a few down south

Its just plain hard yakka with anything to do with firearms and hunting over here, hard to find and get onto property and then you have to have larger vermin to hunt to justify the calibres you own if anything bigger than a 243, I have lived over here in the Pilbara for the last five years moving from Victoria and the gun situation is chalk and cheese, dont mean to be all negative, one good thing is the 45/70 is classed as a low powered calibre in the WA laws I have two 458 Lotts on my licence and dont you think that wasnt a nightmare to achieve in saying that, if you are living in Perth can get a lot more contacts and such for property oppurtunities, I packed up all my gun stuff and sent it back To Vic and are going FIFO, looking forward to the lack of red tape in Vic.

Yep, there are opportunities for goats and camels for those who knock on enough remote doors. There are also some pigs and deer down south, with more pigs up north. There are donkeys and brumbies, and the odd scrubber. In the south-west, the most common game are rabbits and foxes, with an occasional feral cat. Compared to New Zealand and elsewhere in Australia, hunting opportunities are difficult to find, and WA has the most absurdly-restrictive firearms laws in the country. As a hunter and firearms enthusiast, you'd be better-off staying in NZ or settling in another state or territory of Australia.