Tag Archives: Deer stalking

The closing of the hind season

The hind stalking season closes tomorrow and we have been trying to get a last few stalks in. We haven’t been helped by a miserable turn in the weather which has brought low cloud, wind and rain. We are particularly … Continue reading

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A sufficiency of stags

That’s it, we have finished another season at the stags. We finished in style with five stags today, truly a sufficiency of stags. The team are shown below. I’ll post full details of numbers and weights in the next few … Continue reading

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Stalking girls

We had three girls out stalking today, for one of whom it was their first stalk. Three shots, three stags, job done. I am required to point out that they have multiple layers of clothing on, and spent most of … Continue reading

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Stalking in the wind

This should be the best week of the year for deer stalking. The rut is in full swing, but the stags are not yet run – ie exhausted from the effort of running their hinds – so there is noise, … Continue reading

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Deer stalking does not always go to plan

A day’s deer stalking rarely works out quite the way you expected. But that is much of the charm of it. Having been south, we got the sleeper north last Thursday night, so we could stalk on Friday and Saturday. … Continue reading

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A stag to impress ‘La Chasse’

We had intended to go out for a full day’s stalking yesterday, though were alarmed by the prospect of disruption from Hurricane Katia. In practice we saw no hurricane but a lot of rain in the morning. So we planted … Continue reading

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Where did summer go?

I was in London last week and looked forward to getting home and on the hill. But the day dawned wet and with low cloud wrapping all the hills; pretty hopeless weather for spying and stalking. I looked back at … Continue reading

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Starting the stalking season

Yesterday marked the start of the red deer stalking season for us. Guests had already shot a few sika but it is only after the first red that it feels like the stalking season is properly underway. We woke in … Continue reading

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Red deer

The Shooting Times published last week their annual survey of red deer stalking in numbers. It was gratifying to see that while the number of stags we cull each year is modest they continue to be amongst the heaviest average … Continue reading

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