Scottish venison video

[Rake Aboot]

Found this interesting and worth a gander .

Two things struck me though ,
Firstly, they start out by ignoring all amateur stalkers and pretty much deliberately excluding them from the discussion ( They talk about the cost of culling etc)

Secondly, how the hell did that guy get his Teckel to behave so well ??????

 

[Brad93]

If people can't buy venison locally it's because they either don't want to pay the price of it butchered and presented ready for consumption at their local butchers or farm shop

or

they don't want to buy a carcass from a local stalker or someone on 'giving up the game' and have to butcher it themselves.

There is a cost associated with butchering a carcass and packaging it. It seems most of these people who complain about no local venison want the meat prepped ready at the price the game dealer pays.

You're never going to buy a venison steak at the same cost as beef.

 

[Freeforester]

Linzi’s wrong about climate change, and right - the climate has always been changing and always will be.

Mr Play fair has been ‘developing the market’ for how long exactly? ISTR him being in his post since I started ( —unsubsidised, just to say) 20 years ago…

 

[David Barker]

Found this interesting and worth a gander .

Two things struck me though ,
Firstly, they start out by ignoring all amateur stalkers and pretty much deliberately excluding them from the discussion ( They talk about the cost of culling etc)

Secondly, how the hell did that guy get his Teckel to behave so well ??????

It is a shame that the industry does not recognise the Rec deer manager. You w3ould think managing over one third of the deer population would give us just a little clought lol. Maybe we should ask why this happens and why all the cash is facing north.

 

[wytonpjs]

Secondly, how the hell did that guy get his Teckel to behave so well ??????

Standard for me.........

Post in thread 'Where is you're dog when out stalking?'

May 16, 2024

Where is your dog when out stalking? Do you have it at heel or allow it to work around infront, albeit fairly close? I'm stalking typical scottish borders forestry blocks with my cocker in her 2nd season working and while I try to keep her at heel, will a little more freedom do any harm?

I posted a couple of videos here to show my Teckel and Vizsla’s usual stalking positions - approx a metre to the rear. Both stop when I do to glass/thermal and if a turn around to scan behind me, the vizsla shuffles position to stay behind me. Something I never trained her to do but...

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[arron]

I would also have tp agree on the standards ,, now don't get me wrong , there are very capable good stalkers who have a high standard of venison to be presented that don't have DSC1 or 2 , but on the down side , dsc2 is easily got now via 1 stalk , an my view is the bar has been lowered to obtain it , resulting in poorer quality venison entering game dealers ,, I no I'm gonna get flack for saying it , but that's what I've seen

 

[Rake Aboot]

On the back of this , I had a wee look at what dealers sell venison for.
I nearly **** myself !!

Parts of the beast were up to £50. Kilo ffs !
No wonder nobody eats it!

 

[Mickeydredd]

I would also have tp agree on the standards ,, now don't get me wrong , there are very capable good stalkers who have a high standard of venison to be presented that don't have DSC1 or 2 , but on the down side , dsc2 is easily got now via 1 stalk , an my view is the bar has been lowered to obtain it , resulting in poorer quality venison entering game dealers ,, I no I'm gonna get flack for saying it , but that's what I've seen

What I have seen, and we have all seen it on videos posted on here, is that the long-standing stalkers and "professionals" don't always have the best regard for the carcase post-gralloch to the larder.

I don't think qualifications determine this, its all down to how the individual considers hygiene regarding the carcase.

 

[arron]

Your right there , can't disagree with that ,, I've seen that side of it too ,, it's not hard to make an extra bit of effort , ( well if you've a bit of pride that is )

 

[Mickeydredd]

It is a shame that the industry does not recognise the Rec deer manager. You w3ould think managing over one third of the deer population would give us just a little clought lol. Maybe we should ask why this happens and why all the cash is facing north.

I had a group of industry people, including one who appears in this video, visit me at my larder this week for a chat and they were actually very keen to understand how they could enable the recreational stalker to shoot more deer. It was a very productive visit I thought.