Roe stalk yesterday morning in snowy Scottish Borders

[von 0]

Lovely stalk yesterday morning. Nice size Doe shot, it was with a nice buck also, which i will be watching for the spring. Seen 12 roe yesterday, in big groups of four and fives, this cold snap may well be having an affect on grouping etc, I have noticed that deer are feeding closer to hand with all this cold weather we are having here in Scottish Borders also.

[Guest remmy]

nice one von, i am going down there on thursday at langholm for a days stalking i hope i have the same luck as you von great pics alb remmy.

Edited February 9, 2009 by remmy

[crazymackem 5]

well done pal nice day keep it up :clapper:

[alex24muk 0]

good going mate

[Yokel Matt 918]

Good going there mate, looks like a cold one - bet the hand warmers on the quad paid for themselves that day

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Well done mate .Easier on the quad though isnt it You maybe right about the cold and deer grouping as now its gone down here the roe are in smaller parties of 3 whereas i saw them together in 4's and 5's last week in the snow .Cheers FD

[digg deep 5]

well done pall how long do you have to hang them up side down for

[mj robson 8]

Nice size Doe shot, it was with a nice buck also, which i will be watching for the spring

 

 

Well done with the stalk Von.

 

One bit of advice I could offer, if you have a good buck following a mature Doe it's best to leave her be if you can. She's keeping the buck there and once she's gone he will likely move to another area. I know it's not always possible to leave Does on certain ground but when given the choice between a young doe and mature one, especially at this time of year we always take the young one's.

I cull does on a lot of farms and estates that produce lots of medal class heads each year and on one estate we aren't allowed to take mature does at all, just yearlings and 2 year olds. We shot 2 on Sunday from 27 we saw, and could have had another 2 but left them for the above reason.

 

Roe deer are the same as everything else in the world.................................the women run the show!!!!!!!

 

Cheers,

Mark.

 

ps,

I was watching a group of 17 on a rape field today!

Edited February 12, 2009 by mj robson

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Never a truer word spoken mate .I shoot the mature does in a few cases to purposefully move a buck that i know will cause a bit of trouble .Also ,deer around me are regarded in the main as pests and im asked how best to move a small group on .The answer is to remove the older does as these are what keep the family units together .Good post mate .

[v-max 2]

Hi & well done von you seem to have one stuck up on a fence all bled too. As said by Mj Robson about the doe keeping the big fella about but then you play the numbers game & deer management/welfare etc & its a diffrent ball game. I dont mean this in any disrospect to Mark & others & it aint at you but its that attachude with deer that has led to such problems as with englands fallow herds. I do the same at this time of year if i see a big buck with doe but early on i shoot on site.

[mj robson 8]

I understand that on most stalking ground people can't afford to leave Deer as cull figures and landowners have to be satisfied. I'm lucky that on most of my ground I can leave old Does be, as the trophy bucks in my area mean good money, for the landowners and me. Some may say an unwelcome factor in modern stalking, but a fact non the less.

 

I also have a few veg farms where no deer are tolerated at all, here the old Does are the first to get whacked, leaving dribs and drabs and a few young bucks moving through in the spring.

 

Cheers,

Mark.

[von 0]

Totally agree with you Mark on the subject of leaving mature doe's and how they help hold onto the better bucks etc, it's a policy i apply to the ground and Deer i manage also.

 

What i will say about the stalk and the doe i shot on Sunday is where i shot the doe the part of ground borders with around 4000 acre of forestry managed by the commission, my Deer move beetwen the forestry and my ground, this was a new doe on the ground, possibly moved out of the forestry for easier access to food due to the hard weather etc. Aroung half an hour earlier i was watching my mataure doe with last years young tagging behind her, she is the dominant Doe on the hill, i have been watching her since she had the young last year, her yearlings are also on the hill as well.

 

 

In relation to "Dig Deep's" question, wee tip if their is a fence handy hang the back legs over the fence for a couple minutes to help drain the excess blood out of the cavity, also helps keeping carcass clean as well.

 

Thanks to all for the nice comments etc, good stalking to all!

[martin 332]

Good looking Doe Von,well done mate................martin.