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 the pheasants and Grouse as well as working in the outdoors also. I have been around it most of my life as well as the hospitality industry.
I shot my first deer when I was 13 but performed my first gralloch a little younger, so the smell of deer has been on my skin for a very long time, I am 40 now.
I took a break for a long time from shooting because I was in a "hostile" job that took up a lot of time and would have clearly effected my FAC, so I gave it up for around 10 years but I definitely tried to keep up to date with everything.
For almost the past 10 years I have been back into shooting though and when I came back into it I promised myself I would get fully involved and I would make it my mission to make sure I got 1 person a year their first deer.
So for the last 6 years at least I have managed to keep that promise and yesterday I managed to keep that promise up.
A land I knew on social media made the journey up from Wales to come tag along with me for a night. He travelled 12 to 15 hours to come get a chance of a deer free of charge, madness I know.
Anyways after hitting a blank at the first location where I managed one but he hadn't we went a small croft I have permission on and he managed to get himself a nice little roe buck, and I think he was well chuffed.
After spotting the deer and being able to monitor its movements I allowed the lad to do the stalk, with my supervision from a distance and on the radio, on his own and he did exactly as I suggested him too and after a short stalk and a very tight crawl and a long wait he got what he came for and I was over the moon.
The night also landed up being quite a mixed bag, I shot a deer, he shot a deer, then I allowed him to shoot a few rabbits as he brought his .17hmr a long and then I stalked around 300yrds into a fox that ended up in success but not without a challenge across an open field.
After a 12 hour visit with me he left and I carried on and by mid day today I managed to get a further 2 deer and another fox. so all in all a very funfilled shooting weekend.
I do like helping guys out and doing my bit for the industry, hopefully he now has the stalking bug and maybe next time we will get him a red or a sika, he is welcome back anytime.
AND WELL DONE THAT MAN!!!!
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 the pheasants and Grouse as well as working in the outdoors also. I have been around it most of my life as well as the hospitality industry.
I shot my first deer when I was 13 but performed my first gralloch a little younger, so the smell of deer has been on my skin for a very long time, I am 40 now.
I took a break for a long time from shooting because I was in a "hostile" job that took up a lot of time and would have clearly effected my FAC, so I gave it up for around 10 years but I definitely tried to keep up to date with everything.
For almost the past 10 years I have been back into shooting though and when I came back into it I promised myself I would get fully involved and I would make it my mission to make sure I got 1 person a year their first deer.
So for the last 6 years at least I have managed to keep that promise and yesterday I managed to keep that promise up.
A land I knew on social media made the journey up from Wales to come tag along with me for a night. He travelled 12 to 15 hours to come get a chance of a deer free of charge, madness I know.
Anyways after hitting a blank at the first location where I managed one but he hadn't we went a small croft I have permission on and he managed to get himself a nice little roe buck, and I think he was well chuffed.
After spotting the deer and being able to monitor its movements I allowed the lad to do the stalk, with my supervision from a distance and on the radio, on his own and he did exactly as I suggested him too and after a short stalk and a very tight crawl and a long wait he got what he came for and I was over the moon.
The night also landed up being quite a mixed bag, I shot a deer, he shot a deer, then I allowed him to shoot a few rabbits as he brought his .17hmr a long and then I stalked around 300yrds into a fox that ended up in success but not without a challenge across an open field.
After a 12 hour visit with me he left and I carried on and by mid day today I managed to get a further 2 deer and another fox. so all in all a very funfilled shooting weekend.
I do like helping guys out and doing my bit for the industry, hopefully he now has the stalking bug and maybe next time we will get him a red or a sika, he is welcome back anytime.
AND WELL DONE THAT MAN!!!!
