First off I have to throw your line back at you.
Your heavy bush will be nothing special at all either.
Ha ha choke!
Sambar are larger than boar,when you have to go on your hands and knees through your bush following the wounded animal like we do when on boar then inform me that i don’t know what heavy bush is,or when your in among windblow after wounded sika.
Sambar readily crawl on their knees.. that is true,they use huge blackberry clumps 100`s and 100`s of yards across they tunnel through and believe me I have followed them into their hidey holes. I have a degree in crawling ha ha.
Boar? What? a few Pom pigs,we (dogs and I ) with knife caught a few thousand pigs/boar back in the old days. That degree achieved was started when I was a boy.
One of my favourites pigs, I caught with my dog, himself later killed by a boar. I stuck him with my knife..no gun involved. Back in `78,I was getting my Masters then lol.
Wounded deer? Well generally and I do say 'generally' 99% of shots are death shots as I am a firm believer in not shooting at anything unless I have an almost perfect target area,if done correctly deer is dead. If a runner as big Sambar can be even when well hit the dog comes into play for finding,dead or alive. He has found enough to justify giving him another bread roll with Marmite on it. The priority for my dog is to assist in locating deer alive and as a side hand if dead.
Having hunted Sika in conifers and windrows and deep in the guts of the Wicklows over a couple of years,it can be rough but it is absolutely nothing as to what the Aussie bush can throw at you. One of the SD members arrives in two days for some rough hunting,he can tell you about it when he returns.
I live in a virtual wilderness,no neighbours for kilometres and don`t use any others dogs,in fact there are none near me that I know of.
A month ago one of the stags I knocked over took a liking to getting away, it was entirely my fault for misjudging his pace I let him be overnight and dog followed up his last marks and bayed him next morning in the creek a kilometre plus away through bush of course.
Previously posted short little video of
some terrain we hunt its in the bottom of a basin surrounded by bush hills rising over 4000' dog was at the deer before me ...of course lol. Its hard on dogs too with the berry canes thwarting a lot of their movements in places. The hind was on a dry "island" when I went in to collect a game camera card,she honked,I shot. One big problem we can have is that one`s dog is pointing ahead and its a bit like wtf! What is he pointing at in this sort of cover,so much cover for the deer to hide in and they can hide like no other.
The next road is 20 kilometres 'over the hill' believe me our bush is different to your idea of bush.