first deer

Yesterday I was lucky enough to go out stalking, it was a slightly dull grey day in Somerset, tinged with spots of blue here and there. I’ve been stalking only once before and on that occasion I didn’t manage to see any deer that wasn’t through the thermal spotting scope of my stalker. Today...

Hi all, I've been thinking about whether I want to get into doing a bit of deer stalking for a while now as I use to do a lot of pest control with air rifles when I was a child (so much that my parents were fed up with eating pigeon and rabbits) but that pretty much stopped when I started...

I enjoy stalking , I have been involved in stalking since I was just young. Not many people know that my father was an assistant stalker and farm hand, my grandfather (my mothers father) was a shepherd who use to shoot gees and was a stalker in the borders. My other grandfather used to enjoy...

Hello everybody, Quick bit of background, Im a 20 year old who has a DSC level 1 and I've just bought my first .243. However I have a problem! In September I'm going into the navy as a mine clearance diver, I was planning on doing a BASC cull week on the Isle of Arran, but that has squashed...

Hi all as I said in the introduction to the forum I'm a novice to deer stalking and have only dipped a toe into what has now become as my wife puts it "an obsession", I'm an Oxfordshire lad through and through and until I was in my early 20's had never seen a rifle let alone picked one up which...

Well I'm pretty new to deer stalking having just done my DSC1 back in January and had two stalks spying deer but not able to get a shot, I thoroughly enjoyed these days but they still left me looking for my first deer. Well it's been third time lucky for me when I was fortunate enough to be...

Had a cracking day with Paul Hill of Corinium Range (HME) yesterday. Starting at the range for a refresher with the .308 and then the afternoon on his ground. The huge estate was most impressive and has a large commercial pheasant shoot. The deer are rapidly repopulating the area after the end...