Check this buck out guy`s from England

Now that's a trophy! Where do I find this critter? Guy

The best I've ever seen.

The only fallow deer I've seen in the "wild" was in Texas on exotic game ranches. They were tame as goats and never impressed me with being much of a hunting challenge.

I guess where they've not become accustomed to man they might be interesting to go after.

Certainly that old boy would make one Hell of a trophy.

Very stately, indeed!

WOW!
Thanks gryphon for sharing!

John,

Very impressive indeed...Is that a wild buck or farm/park bred?

Kenso,

Fallow are challenging to stalk in the wild with the old does being as or more wary than the bucks sometimes. I guess its all down to hunter pressure as you say. I think in behaviour ect they are the nearest equivilant deer we have to your Whitetail...if your interested, take a look around :

http://www.deer-uk.com

They have some good photos and sound recordings of all 6 species of deer we have here in the UK...

regards,

Pete

John,

The more I look at that buck, the more it looks just like the big bucks they have at Petworth Park. The confirmation of the antlers is typical of a Petworth beast.

If you have bucks of that quality in the wild in Austalia I am very impressed indeed!

Regards,

Pete

Pete E Douglas score down here sets this buck at about 310 biggest wild bucks here have gone to about 280 Douglas--a long way off this bloke.He is Wentworth Park deer not Petworth mate or so i`m told.None the less a hell of a head.But as its not wild and free ranging it is not that important to me as a "shooting proposition" though some money bags seem to like to "hunt" behind wire game. I saw your Hunt--pics roe deer as well--nice.

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John,

Can't say I have heard of Wentworth Park, but we have many deer parks which date back to the times when a few deer were kept in the grounds of the "Big House" for ornamental purposes. A couple of years back I helped with the culling on one such park not too far away. At the end of the year, it was decided that a particular buck would probably note make another winter in breeding condition, and I was offered it for a knock down price of �100...While not as nice as the buck in the pics it was still a trophy of a life time, but I turned it down as like you I have no desire to take such a buck in those circumstances.

Stalking is growing sport here in the UK, with many of the newcomers coming into the sport from families who do not stalk and no relative to mentor them. So one aspect I do like about some of these Parks is that they offer novices a chance to take one or two beasts under relatively controlled conditions while under the supervision of a skilled Stalker. It makes a good bridge between the theory found in books and stalking in truely wild conditions.

regards,

Pete

PS, can you point me to a site outlining how the Douglas system works?

Pete E believe it or not i looked for a yank recently and couldnt find the relevant stuff on the net---i`m afraid its a matter of looking hard all over.At the moment here in Oz we can buy fallow fawns for $40 (live) and can farm them if one has the right fencing.Mate in Tasmania that i hunt with fenced a few acres and had seven wild deer come in to his farm animals so he opened up a gate and fed them in,several of those wild stags are going to be real big by Douglas score by next year.Fallow no`s in Tas would stagger you Pete some places have had up to 30,00 deer at the height of deer mania,i have filmed a WILD mob of 300 all together leaving the farmland at dawn for the bush.Some farmers there just knock them like rabbits in some places---if anyone wants to learn how to nail fallow i suggest they go to Tassy as its wild deer herds are enormous and one can have numerous stalks daily to learn by.PeteE go to the "hill stags of Scotland" for another big deer that i posted

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