Stuart Wilson’s got two quarry species in mind, at both ends of the size scale: grey squirrel and late-season fallow does and prickets. No, not with the same rifle – he’s selected a Ruger Precision rimfire for the tree-rats, and…
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The Shooting Show – mixed bag of squirrel and fallow deer
Tagged with: .308 Haenel, fallow deer, fallow does, pest control, rifle, rimfire, ruger precision, squirrel, Stuart Wilson, the shooting show
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The off-season with David Barrington Barnes
The off-season for fallow is short, but it provides plenty of opportunities for the stalker to get ahead of the game, says David Barrington Barnes. It’s only in May, June and July – the close season for fallow deer –…
Tagged with: David Barrington Barnes, deer found, doe stalking, fallow, fallow deer, off-season, roebuck, stalker
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The November issue of Sporting Rifle is out now!
The ever-changing seasons always bring something new for the rifleman – and November brings one of the biggest changes of all. Roebucks are no longer in season and roe does have come in – while fallow, sika, red, Chinese water deer and muntjac are all in season in England and Wales too.
Tagged with: 2018, Chinese water deer, fallow deer, muntjac, November, red deer, roe does, sika, sporting rifle, wild boar
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Hinds, camera, action!
Chris Dalton and cameraman decamp to a central Scottish estate with the aim of getting a hind in the larder and the stalk on The Shooting Show
Winter work – the doe cull
The season for roe and fallow does is shorter than that for the bucks and is necessarily further shortened through days lost to bad weather and the pressures of game shooting.
Tagged with: cull, culling, deer cull, doe, Dominic Griffith, fallow, fallow deer, roe and fallow, roe doe, winter
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Stalking Century
David Barrington Barnes revels in the glory of hitting a three-digit target number on a deer cull. Share his recollections as he goes back over a (personal) record year of hunting.
Tagged with: deer cull, deerstalking, fallow deer, field sports, huntsman's calendar, muntjac, roebuck, the hunting year
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