And yes that young lady had a very nice pair of trophies
I want one!
And yes that young lady had a very nice pair of trophies
Irrespective of what flag flies over Monmouthshire now and since 1974 Paul the county will always be a border county to me. With regard to sporting ties you are slightly off because some of the county associations actually retained the Monmouthshire title so that you could represent whichever of the two countries you wanted to. An example of this is the county rifle association, though few chose to represent England probably because competition was tougher.
You are right on the money as regards the deer and boar though. I would just like to hear a little more about the area that this gold was shot in, if indeed the story is correct and it was shot in Gwent or rather Monmouthshire to give the administrative area it's correct title and not the area that was originally called Monmouthshire (boundaries have changed considerably over the years).
Nice plan Paul but I think that you would have been paying for quite a few years before it came to fruition. Your guess on location ties in with mine if the story is correct. After all that's the most logical conclusion. My money would be on the Whitebrook area if any.
P.S. My allegiances were like yours Herefordshire and Gloucestershire more than Glamorganshire and Wales. In fact it wasn't until I went to grammar school that I saw the Welsh flag for the first time. I thought that's nice what country does that belong to. I had only ever seen the union flag before, and of course the Australian flag when we lived there.
I lived in Whitebrook for a couple of years, I caught trout in my garden, and it would be nice to think that there might be roe there as well now. Given the roe liking for farmland and smaller woods I would have a punt on the triangle between Llansoy, Cwmcarfan and Mitchel Troy with the Penallt/Catbrook area as first reserve. A member of this forum has ground quite nearby with roe (and fallow and muntjac) on it but as far as I know he's not taking any at the moment. We may never know where the buck came from as CIC only ever release the county where deer measured were shot. A medal sika was shot in Glamorgan a few years ago and I had no success whatever in tracking down a more precise area. I thought possibly adjacent to Margam but at the time they did not have any sika and the only other possible sika in Wales were what many thought were red/sika hybrids down on the Teifi marshes.
I hope this buck has spread his genes because it is a very nice looking head.
There's no roe in GWENT unless he brought it here in a trailer & shot it in his garden!
there are a few Reds near to Sennybridge and down the Swansea Valley but not escapees been around there for a good few years now
I keep hearing stories of deer around Mamhilad (between Pontypool and Usk). Initially the story was that a fallow buck visited the area, then a stalker told me that it was muntjac, lastly a police officer who also stalks told me that it was roe deer. I regularly walk the dog in the area mentioned and have never seen any signs whatsoever of deer but I'm keeping an open mind as regards muntjac because the area in question would undoubtedly suit them. I also know for a fact of muntjac being knocked down on the road not many miles from this spot.
As regards the reds around Bwlch and Glan-Usk (Powys) I have seen these in the past and a fellow member of our rifle club stalks in that area and says he has seen them fairly recently.
We certainly have Roe with us around Penallt area and I know of someone on this forum shooting a roebuck around the Raglan area. We have seen Fallow around the Black bear area in Usk and I was talking to a farmer last week who said he had fallow deer in the orchard(owned by Bulmers) around Llantillio crossenny.
A farmer I know in Llansoy told me he has some Red deer that sit around with the Fallow on his land. He said his neighbour keeps Red deer so they may be escapees but they have been around for a while now.