Django
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BASC Isle of Arran Questions
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It was good enough for me last year on stags - good beats Shedog/MacrieWell the .308 will have to cut the mustard this time round
TNStalker19
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More info on shedog if possible please 
We were given Macrie along with Shedog. Macrie is very mature forest to the right of the road from Brodick that they have just put a new FLS road into to extract timber and it provides good wood frontage at LL - nice 10-pointer at LL from the log pile. It abuts the Sannox estate and from high ground, we had some good roaring with their huge stags but not sadly ours! Shedog is a good valley with a V-shaped road servicing the portion on the right and a road off on the left shortly after entering the valley that takes you over to another valley. There is a good mix of mature wood and clearfell and if you push out from the right of the beat you can access high open ground from which I missed an imperial because his harem was too attentive! That said, coming back down from that stalk and walking done the track to our car at the bridge at the end of the v-shaped road that defines the right section, my partner took a 13-pointer bruiser just off the road. If you take the left road and push up to high ground there’s a large tract not seen from the access roads - I was fortunate to take another 10-pointer there. The sole time I’ve stalked Shedog/Macrie it didn’t disappoint - the only challenge was closing the ground to get to the stags we could see as they were not responding to the calling.More info on shedog if possible please
Plitts
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thanks for the advice, i'm up there for week 3....fingers crossed!
oxfordfowler
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Week 3 same here - look forward to meeting you
Ditto
GWPMAN
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I know this thread is from last year, but I have just got a place on Arran this year with my mate, week 2. As we can't get to the Island until Monday night James suggested we took Brodick beat. As never been on Arran before does anyone have any advise for that beat or other beats or the whole thing? Heard good and bad so just wanted some feedback tbh
I'll DM you......
This is the famous BASC Arran “tea towel” picture - you should be able to work out the beats. When you are allocated your beat James will send you an OS map of your beat and and aerial one showing the boundaries. These new maps are not as good as the old ones
We were on Brodick last year week 3 and took 3 stags the last one being a 14 pointer on the last morning! We were watching another big lad below us when he came out to our right chasing a hind 50m away never even knew we were there! the following week another one was shot in same location
Free range rob
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So would I, after loosing several days last time I was there with a faulty turret on my z6i, I shall never go on a trip without a spare scope again.
And boots, that island is wetter than the North Sea, and places don’t look wet, but you can soon be knee deep in what looked like dry land
As far as ammo, I would always take more than needed, it’s a bloody long way, and a ferry crossing to buy more.
I went in up to just short of my chest, in one well camouflaged sphagnum deep hole ..... every time I see that bit of film in" Ice cold in Alex", where the spy gets in a spot of quicksand, brings it back the fright.So would I, after loosing several days last time I was there with a faulty turret on my z6i, I shall never go on a trip without a spare scope again.
And boots, that island is wetter than the North Sea, and places don’t look wet, but you can soon be knee deep in what looked like dry land
As far as ammo, I would always take more than needed, it’s a bloody long way, and a ferry crossing to buy more
I pulled a mate out this January at Machrie and I recognise that expression
This is the famous BASC Arran “tea towel” picture - you should be able to work out the beats. When you are allocated your beat James will send you an OS map of your beat and and aerial one showing the boundaries. These new maps are not as good as the old ones
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I get tea towel envy when I see that!
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