14 Days and I am on my way back to Scotland to go Deerstalking for a week. I am really excited to go back.

I wanted to Thank all the board members that gave me leads and helped my quest to find my ultimate estate. Thank you for all the help!

Rain, tweed, midgies, peat it will be great!!

Good stuff Brad, drop me a line if you are flying through London!

Take a midge net for your head, when the little bastards start biting you on the eyeball you'll realise why the Scottish midge is pound for pound the most voracious predator on earth...

I have been introduced to the wee little bastards.

That is why I have Three Midge nets. If it gets bad I may wear all three...

I would love to meet up with you but I am only in London for a few hours on my way home.

That's a shame man, I would have very much liked to met up.

Good luck with the hunt, we expect plenty of photos as you go!

Don't worry, I will find an excuse to get to London one of these days and we can meet up for a Beer.

Enjoy it. I have a week taking some German up to Torridon stalking. Then back down to Edinburgh for some Roe stalking. And then dinner with some mad American comparing notes on wooden boats and the delights of crawling through Scottish feeding the midges!!!!

Be careful with those Americans that you meet on the internet!

Hi Brad

Hope you have a great hunt up there. I'm going up in November to shoot a few hinds in Perthshire.

Mike

Love to hear about this hunt.

Thanks Guys,

I will post a report if I can figure out a new site for image hosting. Apparently Photobucket no longer works.

I am counting down the days!

Last few days becoming very much cooler, with a real nip in the air at night. Expect a touch of frost up in the highlands anytime soon. Gets rid of the midges and brings the stags down.

Keep an eye on http://www.mwis.org.uk/scottish-forecast/WH/ - forecasts for the mountains.

But we often get an "Indian Summer" towards the end of September - a period of fine and settled weather and often warm in the day, but with a cold nip in the air.

At the moment forecast is that we will be getting tail end of the latest hurricane - so good gales coming in.

Yea, I have been watching the weather waiting for it to cool down.

The last time I was there in September two of the days were absolutely amazing, a few scattered showers followed by bright sunny 70 degree weather. It made for some amazing pictures. But to be honest I live in California and don’t go to Scotland for sun.

I will say that I usually have bad luck in my timing when I come to the UK, I have been there for two Foot and Mouth Outbreaks, a Petrol Crisis, and one Heat Wave. I was there for almost three weeks, it down poured rain the first day and I walked to the pub to get a beer got soaked and I ended up getting a cold. The rest of the trip it was sunny and I was sick, my wife laughed at me.

The Petrol Crisis was fun we were stuck in the lake district and the beer tap at the hotel broke! The owner of the hotel did not know what to make of the American guest that crawled under the bar to redo the beer plumbing. But they were happy when I fixed the tap!

I am hoping that it will be a little cooler this time as I had my tweeds made with very heavy weight cloth and they are quite warm. I am hoping for some Scottish weather.

My friend just told me that Invermark has extra days of stalking now because the grouse season was poor, I wish I could pull off another week I have always wanted to stalk on Invermark.

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Originally posted by Brad Hinn:


I will say that I usually have bad luck in my timing when I come to the UK, I have been there for two Foot and Mouth Outbreaks, a Petrol Crisis, and one Heat Wave. I was there for almost three weeks, it down poured rain the first day and I walked to the pub to get a beer got soaked and I ended up getting a cold. The rest of the trip it was sunny and I was sick, my wife laughed at me.

The Petrol Crisis was fun we were stuck in the lake district and the beer tap at the hotel broke! The owner of the hotel did not know what to make of the American guest that crawled under the bar to redo the beer plumbing. But they were happy when I fixed the tap!

At the risk of sounding uncharitable, any chance you could stay at home and not bring any random calamities with please mate?

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Originally posted by Ghubert:


At the risk of sounding uncharitable, any chance you could stay at home and not bring any random calamities with please mate?

Get ready because I am on my way...

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Originally posted by Brad Hinn:

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Originally posted by Ghubert:


At the risk of sounding uncharitable, any chance you could stay at home and not bring any random calamities with please mate?

Get ready because I am on my way...

https://youtu.be/GXFSK0ogeg4

Funny, I have that on my Ipad and usually play it as my flight arrives in the UK.

So this time you brought hurricane Irma with you Brad...

How have you done, where is the report, not one damn photo?!

That's just the preamble to the devastation that is coming with me, think locusts, plague, flooding, the works...

Hope you guys are all doing OK with all that rain?

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Originally posted by Brad Hinn:
That's just the preamble to the devastation that is coming with me, think locusts, plague, flooding, the works...

Hope you guys are all doing OK with all that rain?

Mate it's been devastation!

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...news/amp/uk-41255243

LMAO

"Salma Khan's garden furniture was knocked over by storm Aileen"

I love it! I never get tired of the English sense of humor!

Ok, Tweeds packed…Check
Binoculars Packed…Check
Midge Net Packed… Check
Boots Packed…Check
Gaiters Packed…Check
Wool Socks Packed…Check
Thumbstick, cut in half and Packed… Check
Pack Packed…Check

I do believe that I am ready to go, so up at 3:00am tomorrow to head to the airport and off I go

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Originally posted by Brad Hinn:
Ok, Tweeds packed…Check
Binoculars Packed…Check
Midge Net Packed… Check
Boots Packed…Check
Gaiters Packed…Check
Wool Socks Packed…Check
Thumbstick, cut in half and Packed… Check
Pack Packed…Check

I do believe that I am ready to go, so up at 3:00am tomorrow to head to the airport and off I go

I guess you'll pick up the whiskey in Scotland, that's your midge repellent.

Best wishes for your hunt.