Winter can throw up a particular set of challenges when stalking roe deer for the cull. Follow Dominic Griffith’s advice and make all your outings a success
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The female of the species
As another year begins, David Barrington Barnes turns his attentions to fallow doe and red hind. Credit: JMrocek / Getty Images Though New Year’s Day is not a shooting day in Scotland, I like to have a stalk on 1…
The early bird gets the fox
Mark Ripley rises early to maximise his fox-shooting opportunities on some new ground after a snow fall. Credit: DEA / ALBERT CEOLAN / Contributor / Getty Images I woke up thinking I’d slept through my 4am alarm but in actual…
Top of the world
Paul Childerley heads to Slovenia for the hunt of a lifetime amid not one but two mountain ranges
Snow stalking
Editor-in-chief Pete Carr looks at the pros and cons of practising the doe cull in snowy conditions, and everything you must consider when heading out with the rifle
The tahr before the storm
Hunting with his son, Daryl Crimp faces a race against time to get into an old tahr bull before the unforgiving weather closes in
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Gold in the snow
What’s more fun than fox calling? As Thomas Nissen finds during a hunt in Bulgaria, luring the wolf-like golden jackal might have it beaten
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Frigid foxing
With the south coast of England experiencing a rare snowfall, Mark Ripley is called upon to deal with not one, but three foxes
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When the blizzard hits
As temperatures dip below zero, Chris Dalton is tasked with taking out a DSC2 candidate in Perthshire, hoping the snow doesn’t make stalking impossible
Walk on the Wild Side
Detailing a different kind of hunt, Byron Pace reports from his wilderness red hind stalks in the 2017 season
