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This may be of interest: La Chasse/Hunting in France: A Practical Guide (Part 2/2) - FrenchEntrée

Water deer are not only far less robust than muntjac, but their winter coat hair damages easily making them more susceptible to a wet & cold British winter climate. Plus, larger litter sizes (averaging 3 fawns to the muntjac's one) means smaller fawns at birth so mortality can be high if there...

Very interesting - Devon & Cornwall Police have resisted a formal HAD scheme up until now. Is this a sign that the situation might at last be changing?

Some facts & figures here (from The Field Aug 25)

Swarovski Habicht AV 4-12x50 riflescope, 1" tube, 4A reticule, length 13.5"/34.3 mm, weight appx 14oz Lightweight and very compact construction, top quality resolution and amazing brightness. Fantastic dawn & dusk light gathering. Only lightly used, with no dents to tube or scratches to lenses...

Though entertaining, the history in Flashman is very sound.

I wrote this a few years ago but it might be of interest: SONIC DEVICES These days it’s easy to obtain sonic devices, usually operating on pitches only audible to animal ears, which the makers claim will deter a variety of animals such as cats, foxes, rodents or deer from entering your garden...

DDM is most certainly not a club for 'Ruperts' but has to limit the trainers to trainees ratio, hence the difficulty getting onto some groups depending on the area. It's worth persevering. More info here: Defence Deer Management - The British Deer Society

Still available, and sensible offers will be considered!

The BASC or NGO legal teams will be good sources of appropriate advice on the best way forward

For what it's worth, I've always considered 27 - 28 lbs as a good average clean weight for a mature buck (head & legs on) over the past 30 years or so, and still consider anything over 30lbs an unusually large animal. The biggest I have shot was 37 lbs, an old buck. All came from low to...

Of course (as they say in the movie disclaimers) any similarity to any person living or dead is purely incidental!

It certainly does!

I used to love Player's No Name but that went out of production a very long time ago (late 1970s?). Shame, it was rather like smoking plum pudding.

I know it's not S&B but I have a Swarovski AV 4-12x50 for sale if that is a suitable alternative?