We are headed out after sambar mid-July.

I had back surgery last month and am supposed to be healed up by then.

I have done a lot of fairly dense forest stalking in Europe and North America, but this is my first trip after sambar.

I am hoping to be able to do the step, step glass method of European Roe Deer stalkers, as i t has paid off for me before.

My 2nd method I am hoping to employ is getting high up and using a spotting scope to cut the place apart.

The Aussies I hunt with are bush beaters, and neither one of them likes to glass. Hopefully I'll get to hunt alone, but not my country and it's our 3rd hunt together.

We have done quit a bit of fox lamping together, and we hunted fallows on a place about 100ks south of the capitol last year, but the damn roos would bust us everytime we got within 500 yards of a fallow buck.

Anyway, any sambar advice you have would be wonderful.

Sounds like a plan!!

Which area are they planning to take you?? The country differs quite a bit across their range it seems.

Personally (in my limited experience) you will do better with the still-hunting in most places. Spotting from the tops is fine but if you locate an animal you will still need to still-hunt over a very long distance to get within range. No mean feat on your own.... At least with still hunting in gooid country you have a chance of gettinjg a bead on a deer at any step.

Let your mates bush bash,sometimes its very productive sometimes the glassing works best.
Depending on the country and of course how far you can see will determine the method of choice,that and the weather of course.

Sambar have poor long distance eyesight so open country interspersed with trees is not a huge problem to get up closer. The toughest part is to do it silently as those big ears have hearing second to none and of course beating the unseen deer.Last night`s one deer eventually tripled and i could not find the other two that were bedded nearby until they showed themselves.

I had an inkling that the wind was right so had a quick run up a long bush gully yesterday afternoon and snapped these pics off at three fat young lads working their way across the face. Its quite steep in places and they fed down to the more gentle slopes over some time.
Glassing alerted me to the "arse of a wombat" which i studied for a while @ 400-500 yards across the creek and over another feeder gully (no RF with me) and subsequently showed it to be the arse of a bedded spikey.Around 6 PM it was.
I sneaked back out to not alarm them...i`ll be back! For daddy.