New binoculars I was thinking about getting a new pair of binoculars for a while. I have an old pair of Zeiss 8×56 that has sentimental value for me. They belonged to my wife’s grandfather that probably received them as
Category: Deer Stalking Blog
Deer Stalking and wild boar hunting blog. All about the art of deer stalking, rifle target shooting, reloading, load development, deer management and fox control.
Neck shot doe
This is definitely the worst winter I have experience since we came to Scotland 7 years ago… It has been wet and windy almost every day, certainly most of the weekends were wet. When a forecast for the Saturday improved
A look at life from a deer stand by Steve Chapman – book review
I have good collection of deer books from Poland, UK and other European countries as well as some from New Zealand. What I dont have is a good book about American deer hunting, so I started to look for anything
Lowland Deer Network Scotland – AGM 2014
I spent good couple of hours at the AGM of Lowland Deer Network Scotland last Sunday. Many more members turned up this year and the meeting room was nearly full. After short introduction Richard Cooke (LDNS Chairman) and Dick Playfair
LDNS AGM
The Annual General Meeting of the Lowland Deer Network Scotland will take place at The Westerwood Hotel, 1 St Andrews Drive, Cumbernauld G68 0EW from 1.00pm on Sunday 26 January 2014. There will be couple of guest giving presentations including
Another victim of fencing…
I come across one of these at least once each year. They all pretty much similar cases – a young deer trying to jump a fence but gets caught be a hind leg. A sorry sight… 🙁
First deer hunt in 2014
A friend invited me to join him stalking Saturday morning. We planned to go on a New Year’s Day, but weather was not great and we postponed till Saturday. It was a nice dry morning (finally 🙄 ) and after
Man-eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett – book review
It may not be anything new for you, but discovering Jim Corbett’s books was a revelation for me. 😆 I was looking for something new to read and someone mentioned “Man-eaters of Kumaon” by Jim Corbett. I was sceptical at
Calf in bad weather
Bad weather Weather has been really bad recently. Gale force winds and rain for the last couple of weeks. I had booked in to visit our syndicate ground and had to give up it was so bad. The forecast was