After holding the scalloped handled knife in the video I'm going to stick my neck out and say it's the nicest knife I've held. Well done sir great work. The only problem is I now covert a mates knife😅
They will naturally mix the gene pool up. I'm not judging ( I'm in no position to do that with the number I've shot 😬)
And as for dropping it easily done I and friends have done that.
It's hard to tell from the pictures but I don't think it will make silver. Depending on your deer shooting aims for the ground sometimes it's good to leave very territorial bucks. ( Better to have one buck than multiple small ones) but I also find good bucks hold good territories and after a bit...
When the fallow numbers around here went up the roe numbers and quality went down but if you hit the fallow hard it's amazing how fast the roe numbers come back. One downside is when the fallow numbers go down the muntjac numbers go up very quickly as well.
I guess the first thing you have to do is find out if your ground is in the Countryside Higher Tier Stewardship. And my understanding is if a percentage of the ground is the seat must be in that wood not in the fields.
Alot of tax payers money is spent on environmental improvement schemes. So if deer are the cause of damage to SSSI woodland why shouldn't you claim money? I think farmers single farm payments are going in the environment improvement direction.
Just to let you know. You can get help with highseat cost through woodland higher tier payment scheme. And it's also looking like you can claim money per hectare for deer and squirrel control in the same scheme soon.
I stopped the if I don't shoot it next door will a long time ago.
Option 1. I see 10 good improving bucks and shoot the lot before nextdoor.
Option 2. I shoot 2 and nextdoor shoots 4 and you hope 4 might live for another day.
Obviously you can't do this on a postage stamp but it's better than...
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