Victorian Hunter Education Course 2025

The renowned ADA Victorian Hunter Education Course is returning in 2025 to Forest Edge (Neerim East). 

The ADA Victorian Hunter Education Course is a residential program conducted over an entire weekend at the spectacular Forest Edge in the heart of sambar country. 

The course will commence at 6 pm Friday 02 May and conclude at 2 pm Sunday 04 May 2025. 

Participants enjoy a mix of theory and practical sessions covering an introduction to Australia’s deer species, hunting and the law, firearm safety, firearms for deer, bushcraft and survival, animal welfare, deer tracking, stalking sambar, carrying out and break down, an intensive complete afternoon field trip into deer habitat, hunting with hounds, hunting with gundogs, caping and trophy care, meat care, deer management and considerations of the future of Australia’s wild deer and deer hunting.

The Victorian Hunter Education Course is Australia’s longest-running, most successful and best-regarded deer hunter education program. The course remains the benchmark for deer hunter education in the Southern Hemisphere.

Costs are “all-inclusive”, so all you need to bring is yourself, sleeping equipment and appropriate clothing for the field trip. Special dietary requirements can be catered for if requested.