I can go many outings without even seeing a deer, despite the use of thermals.
Perhaps we are doing our job in commercial forestry to well!!
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Perhaps we are doing our job in commercial forestry to well!!
TringSaint
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If you are talking the % of stalks that result in a kill, then apart from a first stalk in a friend’s wood this week which drew a blank, I haven’t had a blank stalk in years on my permissions - too many to give a number but definitely more than 5, maybe 7 or 8, could be more - it’s been so long since I blanked on my permissions.
As for deer / stalk then this year its a shade under 2/stalk (29 deer off 15 stalks) and last year it was just over 1.5 (33 off 20 stalks) and in 2023/4 it was just under 2 (36 off 18 stalks)
As for deer / stalk then this year its a shade under 2/stalk (29 deer off 15 stalks) and last year it was just over 1.5 (33 off 20 stalks) and in 2023/4 it was just under 2 (36 off 18 stalks)
AM_Lillycombe
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Farmland, some woods and valleys.
Once we just pulled the truck up in a field saw two sika and shot both, then took them off to do suspended Gralloch. Was quite disappointing really
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If you’re stalking forestry using one will make a huge difference
Depends on what im doing and how much effort im putting in. If I make the effort and put the graft in, then on roe in forestry 100 percent plus (more than one deer a day). If im being lazy and CBA then 25 percent? Many reasons for the cba (knowing the recovery is gonna be a nightmare or daylight has now gone + its a treacherous walk back without a deer).
Reds, well... they're transient and I've not had much luck of late. The opportunity i last had was scuppered by dog walkers being somewhere they shouldn't!
Reds, well... they're transient and I've not had much luck of late. The opportunity i last had was scuppered by dog walkers being somewhere they shouldn't!
Thermal greatly helps
But especially in commercial forestry is reading wind is can do some very strange things in there
Subsistence
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Yer I have noticed that with the wind especially if its light
What you must take from blank trips is "you always learn something" and if you don't you should ask yourself "why"
I have a seat which faces out East, two things if the wind has any West or later in the year when the cover from the trees are gone (no background)
then I stand in the South corner.
Alhamander
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Same for me, when I had a syndicate place in deep forestry. Bloody nightmare; mind you I couldn't actually go that often. Saw deer though...which was nice...
Subsistence
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Yep always feel like I'm learning something. Often lots of things. Never a wasted trip even if I don't get one for the freezer
Mine is mostly woodland stalking and arable fields if I work out stalks to kills it’s over 100 % especially in winter culling multiple does / hinds
Subsistence
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That would be interesting information
Skogsmannen
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Where i stalk, I'll see Roe almost every time I go out, but being in a position to shoot them is often another matter due to environmental constraints (or they are Does out of season). I think though over the 5 years we've been around 40% successful, but year by year it varies either way.
The Reds on the other hand, they come and go when they please, often coming off the hill at night time,having a chomp and then leaving before daylight so success has been very low.
The Reds on the other hand, they come and go when they please, often coming off the hill at night time,having a chomp and then leaving before daylight so success has been very low.
“Everybody has a plan till they get punched in the face!” Mike Tyson
“No good plan survives first contact” Old military adage.
Can’t back it with stats but roughly 1 in 5 outings blanks so 80% successful. Almost exclusively in forest.
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