The passionate hunter wants to share her love of the sport with women across Australia and dispel the perceptions that bowhunting is just for men and cruel to animals.

Australian women from all walks of life are already converts to a sport which Pisani says is just as much about experiencing nature as it is about hunting.

“It’s funny looking on social media how many people are involved. There are women hunters in Western Australia and Tasmania and a lot in Sydney as well. They like getting out into the bush and away from city life and that’s a big part of hunting. No-one cares more about the bush than hunters,” she said.

“Hunting is not always about putting the animal on the ground. Being out in the bush can be absolutely stunning, you can enjoy a beautiful day, just stalking the animal is enjoyable and you can see some amazing animals.

“In a sport that is so deliberate and delicate, for example when you are stalking in the bush you have to be quite and stealthy, it’s got an adrenalin kick.”

While she is now a paramedic residing in Goondiwindi, Queensland, there was a time that Pisani called Bathurst home.

She completed her paramedic degree here and liked the city so much she decided to stay on after completing university. She was also a member of the CSEwes rugby union side. It was during her time in Bathurst that she was introduced to bowhunting. 

“I started bowhunting about 10 years ago, but since I was a little kid I was always going out camping. I had started rifle hunting, but when I was about 20 my brother got a compound bow and I was like ‘Oooh that’s cool, I want to do that’,” she said.

It was 2007 when she first tried bowhunting and since then she has not only taken game trips across Australia, but been to places such as Namibia as well.

Pisani is well aware that her sport can be controversial and confronting to some, but said in Australia they only shoot feral animals as well as paper and plastic targets.

She writes a column for Bowhunting Down Under magazine called ‘Babes and Bows’ in which she promotes other female bowhunters like herself and offers a greater understanding of the sport.

It is that combination of both enjoying her sport and trying to enhance its reputation which could see Pisani in Texas alongside some of the best in the sport as part of the Extreme Huntress annual competition.

“Basically the competition is about trying to promote women in hunting and this competition gives them the platform to promote the sport in their own country,” she said.

“I think it gives the hunting community a softer edge, having women involved in the sport, because there are people out there who give the sport a bad name. All these women who are involved in the sport, they are going to bring up the next generation of hunters and teach them the ethical way to hunt.”

Pisani made the top 20 in the competition and in order to compete in the grand final hunting trip at 777 Ranch in Texas, she needs to make the top six. That is dependant on public votes, so Pisani is hoping residents of her former home city will support her by visiting http://extremehuntress. com/vote

“The grand final covers all sides of the sport, not just the hunting. It will cover bushcraft, tracking and stalking,” she said.