Rake Aboot
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You do talk some crap.
Culling contractors
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Deutsch - Drahthaar
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Yes he was called Gordon Slaughter and he was a good stalker too by all accounts but must be well into his 80's now, so I'm tipping he retired from the game dealer business because of his age and not his concerns for deer welfare as what's being suggested by someone on here. I'm sure I was told that he passed away a while ago now but may be wrong.
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Overlay
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Uncle Buck
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Retired…& alive and kick’n,
a bloke by the name of
Tom Kirsop has taken
over the place.
Buck.
I can assure you 100% Gordon retired because he was over 70 and tired , he’s been lifting heavy deer all his life , unknown to many he had a daughter to his NZ wife ( half his age maybe ) and his daughter must be about 6 so maybe that’s how he was tired out
, in fact I’ve got a picture of him lifting a couple of my stags into his van on his last run down here . So he ain’t dead lads and was trying to get back to NZ to retire . As for SDoos comments on contractors I’m one at weekends working for a mate and we travel far out into the mountains and hills and cull deer legally, quickly , and humanly . Calf first if possible then hind , NO DEER are ever left to wrought , if you don’t have a dog you don’t go ,and if you do get a runner then you go after it ( copper ) 
. There might be chancers out there but I can assure everybody we are accountable for every bullet we fire and accountable for every beast because no deer no money for both .
TH4
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Then the people you know are not contractors they are ar*****es that cannot shoot and have no respect for their quarry. Certainly not professional culling contractors.
Gordon did a fair bit of contract culling for
Tillhill back in the day so a bit of pot calling the kettle black if that's actually what he said.
levigsp
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you are joking right? what about the well publicized account of red deer being slaugfhtered on john muir trust land and left to rot? How about the estates of a certain rich european landowner, who wishes his estates to be rewildered. he was one of my neighbours in wester ross. The deer on his land were shot by contractors, and they were very efficient at it. But the left them on the hill to rot, they got their wages from him.
Not fls Scotland contractors though I bet! Sounds like cowboys for hire!! There’s not a deer manager/ contractor worth there weight in salt would do that. But yes I did read about it and was disgusted
Hi Griff, please excuse my ignorance, but could you do your best to answer the following;
so that figure of 8K beasts, is that just for Scotland?
What would you say the monetary value is of these beasts to the game dealers? £400K - £500K?
Whatever it is, who pockets that money?
How do the ‘experts’ know that this level of culling is sustainable if they are only working on estimated populations?
I remember similar statements made by the fishing industry years ago regarding cod/salmon stocks.
Do you think there is a danger that by ‘hammering’ deer populations in certain areas it not only allows more plantations but more housing development, etc?
These are genuine questions and I would be interested in your opinions.
Cheers
Gareth
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