Deer on Golf Course

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SikaHunter

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Anyone have any ideas how to stop deer coming out on a golf course or dealing with them on it?. Generally they only come out in the early hours of the morning and dont do too much damage but cause problems for the green keepers.
 
Dealt with deer on a couple of golf courses

You need cooperation with landowner and staff to deal properly

Femcing is unlikely to work as it will be high cost

Managing (killing deer) on golf courses is also a bit of a nightmare as you have the golf course users who want to be there as soon as they can use torchlight and neighbours who like to think of deer as their own who won’t want them removing on golf course land

Get an agreement that the course will be closed to conduct the work and get a few trusted people to assist who can kill humanely and accurately as distances likely to be greater than “traditional stalking ranges”

Having done such work I know it’s hard to get the numbers down on wilder areas where infill is likely to occur


You also need sound idea on whole carcass removal and remote gralloch / disposal of same


I’ve also done work on areas that are close to high density population with good success as part of a greater team effort

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Involved need to be on the same playing field and be in agreement for any such removal to work
 
SikaHunter said:
Anyone have any ideas how to stop deer coming out on a golf course or dealing with them on it?. Generally they only come out in the early hours of the morning and dont do too much damage but cause problems for the green keepers.
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Buy a torch and mount it to the riflescope.
 
As Ronin suggests, get the club to "close the course". It's normal practice when the ground is frozen or very very wet and courses often use winter greens so the members will be used to it. That should give you access in the early morning. Fencing - the Appleby course had, may still have, fenced greens. Made for interesting approach shots, but it kept the sheep off the greens
 
Buchan said:
As Ronin suggests, get the club to "close the course". It's normal practice when the ground is frozen or very very wet and courses often use winter greens so the members will be used to it. That should give you access in the early morning. Fencing - the Appleby course had, may still have, fenced greens. Made for interesting approach shots, but it kept the sheep off the greens
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Unfortunately closing a golf course only closes it to members, if access can be gained by walkers then things could get interesting. Night License best and safest way.
 
If you’ve ever stalked woodland trust wildlife trust or public access woodlands golf courses are a breeze mainly as they don’t have dogs 😂 and golfers leave plenty of time to get round 18 holes so its quiet for last hour on the 1st 9
 
If you’ve ever stalked woodland trust wildlife trust or public access woodlands golf courses are a breeze mainly as they don’t have dogs 😂 and golfers leave plenty of time to get round 18 holes so its quiet for last hour on the 1st 9
 
Ronin said:
Get an agreement that the course will be closed to conduct the work and get a few trusted people to assist who can kill humanely and accurately as distances likely to be greater than “traditional stalking ranges”
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I would have thought the opposite, there is a small population of roe on the golf course beside me an they arexso used to humans and dogs that it's easy to get within easy range of them
 
Unfortunately the golf course in question is close to woodland and a council park. The deer being Reds are completely nocturnal and range over a very large area of farms and woods in the area. The only time they stay in any one place for any length of time is when the crops are high enough for them to live in. Generally that means Maze and Rape. Unfortunately for my cull this year the maze was cut very early and the Rape will not be high enough until later in the new year. Not sure how easy it would be to get a night licence and even one was obtained how safe it would be to shoot in the area of park and woods and roads.

I am thinking of a chemical boundary or indeed an electric fence where they gain entry to see if that stops them.
 
SikaHunter said:
Unfortunately the golf course in question is close to woodland and a council park. The deer being Reds are completely nocturnal and range over a very large area of farms and woods in the area. The only time they stay in any one place for any length of time is when the crops are high enough for them to live in. Generally that means Maze and Rape. Unfortunately for my cull this year the maze was cut very early and the Rape will not be high enough until later in the new year. Not sure how easy it would be to get a night licence and even one was obtained how safe it would be to shoot in the area of park and woods and roads.

I am thinking of a chemical boundary or indeed an electric fence where they gain entry to see if that stops them.
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Hang a salt lick up in front of a highseat.
 
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