How does this work, got any contact information. Diana wants E1000 for 5 days stalking, and acomadations with full board. Then 250-500 quid per Fallow or Sika, and 150-250 quid per Muntjac, Roe, or Chinese Water Deer.

Anyone got any advice?

With the Deer Parks, you are usually stalking on much smaller areas but with very high density's of deer.

I have culled fallow on a couple of Parks, but would not want to go trophy hunting in one...Just my take on it...

I am also plannning on hunting wild Irish Sika and Scottish hill stags.

Sometimes blood is blood. It's nice to have something other than skinny hill culls to hang on the wall.

Pete I do appreciate the advice! Is rifle rental a possiblity in the UK? I shipped my rifle back to the states, and am moving to Italy in October. I will be doing a lot of hunting next year but it won't be with my rifles.

There are parks and parks (as in all things)

Some of the larger one could be interesting but they will (to my knowledge) only have reds, fallow or perhaps pere davids as maintained herds.

Drop me a PM about it.

D99,

Usually borrowing a rifle is not a problem; in fact I would not stalk with anyone who charged a fee for it...

As for Parks, there are indeed different types of parks, but shooting captive red or fallow for trophies is not really my cup of tea. I was once offered the chance of taking a gold medal Fallow Buck that was past his best for £50 from a 200acre park, but I turned it down...The "trophy" just would not mean anything to me if taken in those circumstances...But thats just how I feel, and each to their own...

Regards,

Pete

200 acres is fish in a barrel.

50 quid, is pretty cheap even for fish.

Surely no one would hang as a sporting hunting "trophy" a head from a 200 acre deer park "paddock"?

Could they be baited with some lucerne to make the shot easier?

NitroX

A visiting German hunter eventually took and for considerably more than £50 so I was told.

Another place has a *huge* red deer head on the wall; its that big it looks like an elk..That came from another park and they had an American booked to come over & take it, but a couple of weeks before he arrived it got killed while fighting through the deer fence with another stag. Apparently the trophy fee on that was supposed to be £5000...

Another story which seems a bit far fetched but the teller swears is true concerned a different visiting American who was over stalking stags on the hill in Scotland.

After getting his stag he told the stalker he *really* wanted a trophy wild goat and would pay a good fee for one.

The trouble was, there were no wild goats in this particular area and time was running short. The stalker being the enterprising sort, "obtained" a very large domestic billy and had it brought over in a horse box...His initial intention was just to release it and say nothing, but he eventually thought better of it.

After coming clean to the hunter, the hunter entered into the spirit of the thing and the goat was supposedly shot as it left the horse box on the lawn of the B&B where the American was staying...

Regards,

Pete

Actually I do (or could) hang similar heads myself. Except in no way are they "sporting trophies". They are merely examples of stags from a herd for interest and as specimens only.

I think the need for "bragging trophies" is really a poor show.

I think "fair chase" is a good concept for sporting trophies.