sounds like you gave him a great day, well worth a stalk at a buck!Jim was invited through a mutual friend to a keepers day on a prestigious shoot, stayed with the head keeper, was fed and watered had a good keepers day, where the bag was well over 300 birds. He promised a trophy fallow buck in return, for what he described as a brilliant day. Since then he has fobbed us of with excuses such as the fallow cast their antlers a month earlier than usual, it's raining today so a waste of time stalking in drizzle. We have since left it for him to invite us, we have stalking ground only 30 mins away from him, but haven't heard of him since.
Not very gentlemanly of him.
anybody on here know anything about this company? wise investment or waste of money??
Done some of my level 2 with him ,was ok with me & seen plenty of deer .atb
I was in the Rusko syndicate between 2011 and 2012. It was taken on through JW Stalking, but two permission letters came through the post, one from JW and one from James Mcerlean at Creeside Stalking. Needless to say I wasn't sure who we were actually dealing with! We took the lease on with the understanding that there were "X" number of highseats. Most if not all were rotten through and unfit for use or completely overgrown. I raised this with JW but nothing was done to help. The ground was very good with promise of red, roe and fallow, but surprisingly deer sightings were few and far between. One time we found a head shot roe dumped in a ditch beside the track. Quite a few dog and foot prints on the rides and tracks as well as several things didn't feel right, almost like there was something going on whilst we weren't there, even though we were told there was only one other syndicate member from down south. Needless to say I expect other SD members on here to say they were syndicate members during the same year! I know of other bits of ground which I suspect are part of the same setup which people I know have been members of, but it is not my place to comment on this although I know their suspicions were similar.
And this is where I think part of the problem lies. The caveat that the owner/company retains a rifle in a permission to take on clients carrying out their DSC2. There may not be many syndicate members on a lease, but just how many times are clients taken out whilst the members are off the grounds? Land should be set aside if the intention is to take out DSC candidates on a regular basis, but I suspect it goes on all the time on some syndicated ground to the detriment of others.
Rusko,being Rusko wood Gatehouse of Fleet.
i was in that syndicate along with 6 others from Anglesey around about the same time