If the estate requires vermin control and vermin control is what you've given them, then it looks to me that you have only done your job. Well done!
I am sorry to keep on but shooting deer is NOT vermin control. Deer are not vermin and their killing is strictly controlled, hence the 1991 Deer Act.
Occasionally they may be a bit of a "pest" in the broadest sense of the word but vermin they are not.
VERMIN THEY ARE NOT BUT DESTRUCTFUL PEST THEY CAN BE 'IF IT WAS LAWFUL FOR DEKER TO SHOOT THE KID THE ONLY THING WRONG IN MY OPINION IS THAT DEKER MADE A MISJUDGEMENT IN PUTTING TH