Hind Stalking Prices (Highlands)

[sgurrdamh]

Hello,

I’m interested to hear what people are charging (and a brief idea of what it covers) for hind stalking 2024 / 2025 season. Looking at changing our prices going forward.

Thanks,

Sam

 

[Jagdmatch]

I have just paid £305 per day.

 

[lochty]

Asking around, seems to be from £275 to £380 upwards, perthshire.

 

[Scuffy]

Long gone are the £100 fill your boot days !

 

[jcampbellsmith]

I've just paid £300 per day.
Regards
JCS

 

[Utectok]

Me too £300

 

[NullMac]

£300 per day in Southern Cainrgorms.

What I got for that was 2 days of complete bull**** from the stalkers, two hill walks and 'accidentally' into bumping groups. Two of us scraped 3 deer.. I can recommend where to avoid let's put it like that. The 'branded' estates are pushing their luck. There are plenty of other less well known places that don't charge that and you aren't treated like a piece of ****.

Will not be back. They think just because we are clients we don't know deer, nor how to stalk. Bad news...

 

[NullMac]

Long gone are the £100 fill your boot days !

Well its not £100 but you can still help get the cull numbers if you go to the right places and you can shoot.

 

[Sealgair nam fiadh]

How many deer are people expecting to shoot in a day ?
£600 for two days with three deer is £200 per deer.
Is that reasonable or not ?

 

[Stevie/P]

Unfortunately I’ve had too cancel my trip this year due to health problems however was quoted £250 per day hinds that was for two of us taking it in turns so £125 each per day I think that’s good price.

 

[User00053]

People seem to have a perceived expectation of multiple shots and as sam asked as to what it entails for the money.
Reality probably a single hind and calf if done by the book or old and yeld hind, if trusted and known with talent maybe
More I would suspect.

 

[filzee]

Just got back from Skye
£250 for the day split between 2 of us. 2 hinds down. Could have tried for more but had to work for those. Quality stalking

 

[Dave_45]

Diesel is also circa £1.50 a litre and we have channel 5 now as well.

I hear rumours we will be getting toilets indoors as well.



Everything costs more at the minute,including our luxury hobbies.

 

[Pete6.5]

Got to pay the sporting tax on the ground somehow

 

[Klenchblaize]

And to think FCS/Nature Scot could be “having it large” to the benefit of the Scottish tax payer, and at the expense of those keen but ‘soft’ Lowland Deerstalkers wishing to put their £300 boots and an all-copper spitting Creedmoor to the test.

K

 

[slider]

And to think FCS/Nature Scot could be “having it large” to the benefit of the Scottish tax payer, and at the expense of those keen but ‘soft’ Lowland Deerstalkers wishing to put their £300 boots and an all-copper spitting Creedmoor to the test.

K

Abn the cost of managing that ground/those deer is less than the private sector why?

 

[NullMac]

How many deer are people expecting to shoot in a day ?

There is a cull target, why should there be a limit other than the guns ability to shoot? It's not the stags. Get the cull in early save the stalker some work. So prices go up and the shooting goes down? Great deal that. Greedflation.

£600 for two days with three deer is £200 per deer.
Is that reasonable or not ?

No it's not. Cheaper shooting available elsewhere in Scotland.

If you were referring to me then you need to have a look at yer sums. £300 a day, 2 days, 2 guns = £1200 (plus tips just to add insult to injury) for 3 auld hinds = £400+ per deer to do the stalkers job. Want to pay that, on crappy short days with two shite stalkers who think they are pulling the wool over your eyes? Didn't think so.

I can get a whole seasons stalking for £500, why do i want to pay £400 (or £200 for that matter) to shoot a knackered old hind.

Sure there is a market, but let's not pretend it is a good deal at those prices. The attractiveness of hind stalking is that you can get on the hill and shoot a few beasts in a day. You accept the shite weather for that possibility. £300 for one deer wi nae horns is a rip off.

 

[Sealgair nam fiadh]

No it's not. Cheaper shooting available elsewhere in Scotland.

If you were referring to me then you need to have a look at yer sums. £300 a day, 2 days, 2 guns = £1200 (plus tips just to add insult to injury) for 3 auld hinds = £400+ per deer to do the stalkers job. Want to pay that, on crappy short days with two shite stalkers who think they are pulling the wool over your eyes? Didn't think so.

I only did it 'cos a mate wanted to and didn't know any better.

I can get a whole seasons stalking for £500, why do i want to pay £400 (or £200 for that matter) to shoot a knackered old hind and not get to keep the venison.

Sure there is a market, but let's not pretend it is a good deal at those prices.

Not aimed at you in any way.

To me £300 a day to shoot a hind is a high price to pay and it would seem that the Stalker's let you down.

However, it should be the auld hinds that you are culling if it's a open hill estate.

 

[Whitefront]

Interesting. May I ask, did you actually pay tips? If so, how much, and why? Did you make your dissatisfaction known? If so, what was the response?

 

[Dan Newcombe]

Not saying at all that NullMacs days weren’t a bit crap and and quite expensive / not what was expected but I think that one thing people need to get out of their heads with hind stalking is that somehow they are ‘helping’ or ‘doing the stalkers job for them’ - it’s guided stalking.

Usually it’s better value than stags if you are basing it on number shot but in reality, if the stalkers were doing it on their own they would get done a lot quicker, albeit with no income from the guests.

If you haven’t had a good day that’s entirely understandable but that can happen anywhere - prices have gone up a) because everything has and b) because more people want to do it so the demand has increased.