Good evening from across the pond, I haven't posted on here for some time so I hope all's well with you guys. I thought you might like to see this fallow buck that I shot on Saturday, not a great head in the classical sense because of the big fishtail in it but he'll go on the wall none the less.
I've been asked by a customer to control the muntjac population in and around their large rural garden. Here's a few trail camera photo's and a couple of the highseat that I built for it and its location.
Here's a few fallow from the last couple of weeks, all cull bucks. The doe season started up on the 1st November so now the real job of deer management starts.
There's 2 problems with that Richard, one he's never shot a muntjac buck which is why he's swamping a sika stag and two we struggle to hold fallow bucks on our ground, they turn up in NT Hatfield Forest for the rut and then drift in and out for the rest of the year.
The obvious answers is yes but to what degree depends on how much land you have to shoot over, at the moment I'm getting roughly $1.50 a lb so that buck is worth $180. So if you have 1000's of acres with multiple species and can take clients out year round then between the carcass money and the...
Thank you all, I often look at photo's from your side of the water and think exactly the same!
I don't ever keep bucks to eat especially during the rut, only tender young doe's for my freezer.
I saw this young fallow buck very late on Sunday night but I spooked him as he walked behind my highseat so last night I was back in there after him or a poor quality pricket (spikehorn). After about 20 minutes of being in there I picked him out 100 yards away but in heavy cover, 5 minutes later...
She certainly does enjoy being outside, start them early and hopefully they'll embrace the lifestyle.
Hopefully these photo's post without cutting her head off!