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tom

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Good afternoon,
I’m doing some research for my estate ,
Would any professional stalkers /contractors let me know what you are paid per carcass (red/fallow)?
Or are you paid per hour /per day ?
Any info greatly received .
Please private message
If understandable you don’t want it broadcast on the group .
Many thanks
 
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tom said:
Good afternoon,
I’m doing some research for my estate ,
Would any professional stalkers /contractors let me know what you are paid per carcass (red/fallow)?
Or are you paid per hour /per day ?
Any info greatly received .
Please private message
If understandable you don’t want it broadcast on the group .
Many thanks
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I’d be really interested to hear the, non-attributed and generalised, results of your exploration here. I’ve seen very divergent views on SD about whether payment should be part of the deal for different scales of deer management, or whether having access to shoot should be enough. I suspect there could be quite an interesting and useful debate with some stats to work with.
 
Forestry Land Scotland pay contractors £100 - £160 per deer delivered to the larder. You might have one contractor at the top who sub-contracts to others. I would say that figure is inflated because FLS are, shall we say, heavy on the paperwork and beurecratic requirements. There will be a huge range depending on the terrain and nature of the contract. I don't have experience of figures in England or Devon but I would expect any contract would be more popular and competitively fought over, distances less, deer densities higher and people are richer.
 
tom said:
Good afternoon,
I’m doing some research for my estate ,
Would any professional stalkers /contractors let me know what you are paid per carcass (red/fallow)?
Or are you paid per hour /per day ?
Any info greatly received .
Please private message
If understandable you don’t want it broadcast on the group .
Many thanks
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The langley wood tender has some interesting data

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Reloader708 said:
Hourly rate for me, and im bloody glad, a week of shite weather and you'd be eating beans.
Plus theres other deer related things need attention too that are not necessarily killing.
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Is that you being employed or self employed doing it that way ?
 
Dave_45 said:
For all the kit you aren’t far off 100k lay out
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Are you assuming a contractor buying literally everything from scratch (even rifle etc etc)?

Unlikely that would ever be the case for someone setting up as a professional contractor.
 
Andyquadra said:
Thays not a lot is it!
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Plus the small return from the game dealer I suppose.

Muntjac not worth a great deal usually but if you managed 300 fallow carcasses at let's say £1.50 a kilo, let's say a conservative 25kg a carcass. Thats another £11,000.

If you could get a better price from the dealer and the carcass weights were average or above average you'd probably make a respectable living.
 
Brad93 said:
Plus the small return from the game dealer I suppose.

Muntjac not worth a great deal usually but if you managed 300 fallow carcasses at let's say £1.50 a kilo, let's say a conservative 25kg a carcass. Thats another £11,000.

If you could get a better price from the dealer and the carcass weights were average or above average you'd probably make a respectable living.
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If the contractor is keeping the revenue from the carcasses on top of his/her fee, then that puts a completely different complexion on it.
 
I can't see anything in the tender about natural England taking the proceeds from the AGHE but I have only skimmed it.
 
the money is in mail order venison and any other direct sales . There is no worthwhile stand alone net profit in full carcass sales it seems , unless its a hobby to keep busy ! It can be turned around but only if you can Run it real serious and its your estate ( yes i do know a place )
 
VSS said:
If the contractor is keeping the revenue from the carcasses on top of his/her fee, then that puts a completely different complexion on it.
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Exactly so. Also would be good to know - is this a full time job/income or is it part time alongside other work - deer management or otherwise?
 
Sandy25 said:
Suppose it depends if you are including a truck and buggy/quad with trailer as well. That could easily push you up to the 100k mark.
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Like I suggested, unlikely someone becoming a contractor would come to it without a certain amount of the equipment needed. I’d have thought anyone considering it as a professional move would already have a truck?
 
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