tommydeer

Never posted it at the time but thought it would help kick off a trend of storys again! This was last rut, was having a lot of problems with bucks on the outside of the park fight with bucks on the inside. The result was a very buckled chain link fence, obviously the bucks on the outside here have a superior body weight to the ones on the inside. You can feed all the concentrate and silage in the world in a park but theres no substitute to wild forage, all the bramble, wheat, beans etc in the surrounding area makes a huge difference. Anyway, we had just re established the deer leaps around

Know what you mean Matt, apart from yourself, Martin and Foxdropper not that many people post too regulary. I for one should probably post more but have always been happy just to post the odd photo. Its different when its your job day in day out, be like writing an on-line diary! I think some have been lost to the SD, have to admit though, its more enjoyable reading it on here. The other sites seem to be more £ related and everyones an expert! Its not the easiest time of year to be shooting deer now either, the cover and crops are well up and only really roe bucks are in....muntjac cant be

Well done chaps, cant imagine there in bad order with all that food in the fields FD!

Well done Martin, looks just the job.Very best of luck and hope you've got yourself in better health after the accident

PM's replyed too, cheers for your interest chaps

Unfortunately locals will be given priority and because of the type of location its difficult to have a quantity of people out at the same time. Its more about the right people for a few hours each week as opposed to the number of people out at a given time

move house rossi! Looking for one, maybe two people to cover quite a large area, lots of squirrels. If they did well there would be a thankyou at christmas

Is there anybody that would be interested in doing some vermin control (squirrels) in the Sevenoaks area on a weekly basis? Regards Tom

And again chap...its a deer stalking forum, i think you'll find foxdropper is just frustrated at people not using the forum for what its here for. He has made hundreds, if not thousands of posts which have been of great interest and benefit to others, so too have others. You can bring all the vocab you want to the table but the simple fact is.....your only impressing yourself

Two words......grow up......please dont air your dirty laundry here chaps, most of us really dont care. We're here for a deerstalking forum,not a points scoring session

well said that man

Tidy little buck....certainly with at least one brow tine. Top photos Martin

If there is a small density of animals in the area then chances are there wont be too many males for him to compete with. In the past ive seen bucks which have gone well over 70 cic without a scrape on them. With regards his age, muntjac bucks are a lot easier to age than other species of the same gender due to the length of their pedicle. Each year when they cast they lose a little off it, thefore you'll notice young bucks have a much greater length of pedicle compared to the older boys who are often a lot closer to the skull.

Photos from the other evening, only had about 15 minutes of really good light.

Bodyweight always helps but the Japs are generally the smaller of the sub species of sika. For a Jap he's got good bodyweight, but his antlers are what really make him, good length and thickness from the base to tips, theyre almost bladed with a point off the back and a grain to the antler. Its typical of animals of New forest origin, its not uncommon to have sika spikers with 3,4 or even 5 points. Generally outside of the New forest you get animals with what you would call a more correct looking antler, tubular like with the odd ridge on the older animals ( with the exception of animals from