Thread: Roe deer hunting

Originally Posted by MSL

Way too many poachers here for it to work.

It's amazing how the poms aren't switched onto deer like people in NZ. Travelling around in July / August I was seeing roe all over the place, often in broad daylight. At the end of my sister's garden, in the fields from the train, around the Scottish castles. We stayed for a couple of nights in North Yorkshire, and walking home from the pub both evenings we saw roe in fields, they saw us, and carried on grazing. They just don't get the pressure around the edge of villages and towns, blokes don't go shooting them there. A lot of farmers don't allow deer stalking, and like cockies here with their fallow, they tolerate the roe deer and as such the roe deer tolerate people to an extent.

Get onto a property where they are regularly shot at, and its a totally different story.