Hunting Grounds 1.1.2 has been released.

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Hunting Grounds 1.1.2 has been released.

We're excited to announce that Hunting Grounds 1.1.2 has been released! This version adds some new features:

New Features:

  • Added two new basemaps - Satellite Topo (cacheable, but lower res satellite) & "blank" topo
  • Added new crown land hunting areas for "metro Melbourne" (for those poor souls trapped in metro Melbourne due to COVID restrictions, but still want to get into the bush...)

Some additional information on the new metro Melbourne layer:


On Sunday night, the Victorian State Government announced that as of 11:59pm on Thursday the 21st of October, Victorians will gain some additional easing of restrictions originally imposed by the current heath orders. Part of these easing of restrictions is that residents of metropolitan Melbourne no longer have a 15 km travel radius, and are now free to move about all of metro melbourne.
This is great news for everyone, but especially for metro based hunters. Whilst one might not think of  metropolitan Melbourne as having vast swathes of public land on which you can hunt, we decided to have a look at the data and see for ourselves, and we were pleasantly surprised.
We decided to perform an analysis only on the 8 border LGA's of Wyndham, Melton, Hume, Whittlesea, Nillumbik, Yarra Ranges, Cardinia, Casey, and the Mornington Penninsula, as these are the areas most likely to provide huntable public land.  
Between these LGAs, there are 576 parcels of crown land with an aggregate total of 61,334 hectares on which hunting is permitted.

Our picks:
If you're in the north or west, your best bet will be to head on up to Mount Disappointment State Forest in Whittlesea.
If you're happy to head east, then the Yarra Ranges LGA  offer a considerable amount of state forest to hunt in, these being: Big River, Latrobe, Marysville, Mount Toolebewong, Paul Range, Thompson River, Upper Goulburn, Woiwurrung, and Yarra State Forests
Cardinia also has a small but respectable amount of huntable land in Beenak and Tominbuk state forests.
This data is all easily visible within the app itself, so download it and give it a go.