With a lightened workload ahead of the red stag season, Chris Dalton is able to enjoy the experience of introducing new stalkers to roebuck. To me, September is a slightly strange month in the stalking calendar. It is a great…
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Wild endeavour
Will O’Meara treks to the furthest reaches of the Wicklow Mountains in search of a lone red-sika hybrid
Testing times
Called upon to test a new tripod, Will O’Meara comes up with the toughest test conditions you can imagine: a snowbound hill stalk in Wicklow
Irish luck
Chris Dalton crosses the Irish Sea to try his luck at a sika stag, but poor conditions threaten to end his stalk before it’s even begun
Forest fortune
Chris Dalton has to negotiate some testing re-stock forestry on the hunt for red deer – and finds that getting out is going to be harder than getting in
Tagged with: capstan winch, cull, estate management, forest, glades, red deer, red stag, scotland, sika, South Ayrshire, stag rut, stalking
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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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The silent stalk
Daryl Crimp undertakes a 10-day meat hunt with two less-than-talkative companions. But who needs conversation when you have mountain scenery, regular snowfall and distant sika?
Tagged with: hunting, Kaweka mountains, mountains, New Zealand, sika, stalking, wilderness
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Second chance sika
David Barrington-Barnes returns to Scotland two years after his initial ‘sika safari’ for another crack at stalking this spookiest of deer species
Tagged with: deerstalking, scotland, Scottish sika safari, sika, spiker, stalking
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Historical hunt
On German ground that has hosted Göring and Honecker as hunting guests in the past, Thomas Nissen experiences what a top-notch driven hunt is like today Germany is a country with great hunting traditions, most of which are probably familiar…
