About Drawn Bush

In mid-2025, a small crew of WA bowhunters started doing something most hunters only talk about. We went looking for private land access — properly. Not sitting in Facebook groups hoping someone would offer. Actually getting out there and doing the work.

We spent months cold-calling landowners. Messaging through community noticeboards. Driving out to farms in the South West, the Peel, the Wheatbelt — introducing ourselves, offering free pest control, and having genuine conversations with the blokes and families dealing with feral pigs, foxes, deer and rabbits tearing up their land.

It worked. We secured access to multiple properties. Built a waitlist of keen hunters ready to help. Developed a system for vetting hunters, managing access, and making sure landowners never had to deal with anyone they hadn’t approved. The whole thing ran on one simple rule: you set the rules. We make sure they’re followed.

Then the business side got shelved. Legal grey areas around coordinating hunting access commercially, bottleneck issues with scaling it, and a few regulatory questions that didn’t have clean answers. We’re not lawyers, and we weren’t going to wing it on something that could burn the landowners who trusted us.

Here’s the thing — the knowledge doesn’t expire. Everything we learned about finding landowners, making first contact, running phone calls, building trust on properties — that stuff is just as useful now as it was when we were doing it every week.

So instead of letting it sit in someone’s head, we put it all online. The Landowner Access Guide is the full playbook — word for word, the approach that actually worked. Where to look, what to say, how to keep access open long-term. No gatekeeping, no paywalls, no catch.

We reckon every bowhunter in WA deserves a crack at finding their own land. Most blokes just don’t know where to start, or they’ve been burned by dodgy advice. This site is the honest version. The stuff that actually happened, not the stuff that sounds good on a forum.

We also built out pages on what landowners need to know — because this goes both ways. If a farmer is dealing with ferals and doesn’t know that bowhunters exist as a free, quiet, effective option, that’s a missed connection for everyone.

Drawn Bush was built by a handful of mates who got sick of hearing “where do you hunt?” and seeing the same non-answers. We wanted to make something actually useful — a place where WA bowhunters could learn the real process and connect with each other.

The site itself was built by Gridwolf.com.au, our tech partner. They handled the design, development and hosting so we could focus on the content and community. Good blokes, solid work. Cheers to them for making this happen.

We’re building a proper community space — a forum where hunters can talk to hunters and landowners can connect with the right people. No algorithms, no ads. Just a clean channel for the WA bowhunting community to sort things out together.

In the meantime, the guide is live, the landowner info is live, and the content is growing. If you reckon you’ve got something to add — a region you know well, a landowner contact tip, a story worth sharing — we want to hear from you.

Head over to the Join page and get on the list. We’ll let you know when the forum goes live.