georgedoubleyou
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone,
I live in east anglia and I’ve been involved in shooting/agriculture/countryside my entire life. However, admittedly, I never gave deer a second thought.
I recently applied for my FAC (I’ll post a report of how it went at some point, hopefully in the near future). I was initially going to put in for a 223 as I have been given permission to shoot 2500 acres of sporting estate to have a crack at the foxes.
A couple of months ago (before I put in for my FAC), a good friend of mine who started his keeping job on a new estate and is into his stalking asked me if I fancied going for a morning stalk after muntjac. We came home empty handed but I was hooked. I changed my mind and thought that the better calibre to go for would be a 243, given the fact I can go after any deer and also still use it on the foxes.
I am EXTREMELY fortunate that, following the trip out with my friend, he has said that I’m welcome to go after the deer on his estate whenever I want. They are very keen to keep the numbers down as they do a lot of tree planting and forestry work. They have muntjac, roe, fallow is large numbers and a few reds passing through here and there.
I have very much gone down the rabbit hole when it comes to deer stalking and read dozens of books, hours of videos and spent more time than I care to admit reading thread after thread on this site. All from an outing I almost said no to as I was indifferent to the quarry and it was quite an early alarm to set!
The main draw for me is how defendable deer stalking/management is. I often find it hard to justify driven pheasant/partridge shooting.
I can promise you that you’ll hear more from me!
I live in east anglia and I’ve been involved in shooting/agriculture/countryside my entire life. However, admittedly, I never gave deer a second thought.
I recently applied for my FAC (I’ll post a report of how it went at some point, hopefully in the near future). I was initially going to put in for a 223 as I have been given permission to shoot 2500 acres of sporting estate to have a crack at the foxes.
A couple of months ago (before I put in for my FAC), a good friend of mine who started his keeping job on a new estate and is into his stalking asked me if I fancied going for a morning stalk after muntjac. We came home empty handed but I was hooked. I changed my mind and thought that the better calibre to go for would be a 243, given the fact I can go after any deer and also still use it on the foxes.
I am EXTREMELY fortunate that, following the trip out with my friend, he has said that I’m welcome to go after the deer on his estate whenever I want. They are very keen to keep the numbers down as they do a lot of tree planting and forestry work. They have muntjac, roe, fallow is large numbers and a few reds passing through here and there.
I have very much gone down the rabbit hole when it comes to deer stalking and read dozens of books, hours of videos and spent more time than I care to admit reading thread after thread on this site. All from an outing I almost said no to as I was indifferent to the quarry and it was quite an early alarm to set!
The main draw for me is how defendable deer stalking/management is. I often find it hard to justify driven pheasant/partridge shooting.
I can promise you that you’ll hear more from me!
