What is a Deer stalker?

[JabaliHunter]

More importantly what's this deer manager title? I see deer I shoot them! Is that management?

That is covered on the Deer Management course but could also form the basis of your DSC Level M.Phil. dissertation...

 

[User00003]

What's it called when you read a post/thread and have lost the will to live ?

Red Dot syndrome

 

[Claret_Dabbler]

What's a deer stalker? Simple really it's someone who will charge you an obscene amount for an outing stalking.
Then a cull fee, a trophy fee then charge you a ridiculous amount for the venison, he will charge you for a miss, and if you are unfortunate enough to to wound a beast and not find it he will charge you a cull fee, fee for the estimated loss of venison revenue, and a trophy fee, he will estimate what the trophy would have cost and you will need to pay that, unfortunatley all lost bucks are gold medals.

He will charge you for the use of the estate rifle ( although it's illegal) he will charge you for the bullets you fire
(this is not illegal) he will make you fire at least three shots at the target before you set off , so if you are sucessful
thats a minimum of four shots expect to pay around the price of a box of ammunition for this privilege.

However if you are sucessful he will prepare your trophy for you( expect to pay for this) he will also measure it for you with the BASC system this system allows them to be measured wet, more importantly this allows him to charge a slightly higher fee , than the CIC system which requires a drying out period especially when measuring a border line buck that might just have failed to make a medal under CIC


I know all the above to be true because I have read it all on here.

And then stands with his effing hand out expecting a tip...

And then scandalises you or your pals on an internet forum if the tip is not up to expectations....

 

[acj375]

In the UK we stalk Deer ,the rest of the world hunt deer,here we use to hunt foxes.
Enjoy it which ever you are.

 

[Pothunter]

It's just what you call deer hunters in Britain, with this country's insatiable appetite for subdividing and cataloging. Nowhere else by default splits hunters into stalkers, game shots, wildfowlers, roughshooters, ferreters, foxhunters, which are different from fox shooters, or pest controllers, falconers, big game hunters. Everywhere else and in every other language that I'm aware of, those are all just types of hunting, all equally valid. And I haven't even touched on coarse versus game fishing. I wonder whether it's evolved that way because there's something in the British character that just wants to form a club that most people can't join...

Very good point/post. Made me laugh.