Recent content by donsider

I thought Wet, Wet, Wet was a pop group, that is until I went stalking in Glen Lyon last week ! Forty three years of red deer stalking and fifteen of them here on this estate in Glenlyon , and I have never experienced weather like it before. Well, I suppose we were fore warned that Storm Amy was...

Glad you enjoyed your day on the hill for a stag. I am stalking in Glen Lyon next week and very much looking forward to it too as I have been for the past 15 years. I too stayed at the Alien Chraggan when a very nice young Polish couple ran it and when the new tenants took over the prices went a...

Yes I have it and a dam good read it is and I also have 60 Glorious seasons too. I met Duncan over 40 years ago when I was and assistant in the film department at STV on a a Wier's Way shoot with him in Glen Affaric. I visited it again many years later this time as a Producer filming with the...

I have a pair of Leica Binoculars that Bought in Germany some 25 years ago and I am now having difficulty on focusing them at infinity. Is there an agent in Scotland that may be able to service/repair them, or would I have to send them to Austria? Many thanks Donsider

".................And don't come back with a broken ankle again...." were the last words my wife said to me as she kissed me goodbye as I set off on my few days at the stags in Glen Lyon in early October and this my 18th year in the glen. The weather forecast for my few days away looked good and...

Help. I am unable to purchase the above ammunition in Aberdeen, Glasgow or Edinburgh from any gun shops. This is a new requirement by the game dealer where beats are delivered for processing. Does anyone know of a company which stocks it for sale and could send it to me through the post? Many...

For reasons unbeknown until now, I have been instructed that only non toxic bullets can be used for stalking on the estate I lease a few days, for this and future years. That said, I have a 7mm 08 and appreciate opinions fro SD members who use or have used non toxic 7mm 08 bullets for red deer...

I have just taken delivery of a copy. The postman delivered it this afternoon. Expensive yes, value for money, yes and very much so. Excellent photography with good commentary. I very much recommend it as an investment.

Likewise, I to have just ordered a copy. Expensive yes, but will be an heirloom to hand down to my son who is also a stalker.

Just came across this on You tube......................... We have heard it all before. No mention of sheep et al Watch

I'm pleased to say that my stalking trip to Glen Lyon this year went without any mishap. SD members will recall that last year after stalking and shooting a stag on the Monday lunch time I slipped and broke my ankle which not only put an end to my stalking holiday but for all my game shooting...

Reading members successes with the Roe rut, I have to say I am having something of a very frustrating time of it this year. Given the wet weather we have experienced in this part of Aberdeenshire hardly any of the corn has been cut with it being so wet, and yes, I can see deer when I'm out...

Reading some of the threads yesterday afternoon regarding the Roe Rut and different experience members were having it whetted my appetite once more for an outing. I was out last Friday evening hoping to see some rutting activity on a piece of ground I have to near Alford Aberdeenshire. To be...

It has been a long time without any sporting activity since breaking my ankle last October whist stalking stags in Glen Lyon. No pheasant shooting, roe doe stalking and salmon fishing. However, I did manage a couple of hours on a new beat our Association acquired on the river Dee which, I was...

Members may recall of my wee accident I had whilst stalking stags in October in Glen Lyon. Sadly, my injury a rather nasty broken ankle requiring surgery and a short stay in hospital has taken quite a while to heel which unfortunately put paid to my doe stalking and rough shooting during the...