Fallow infestation - spotting with the HIKMICRO Lynx Pro LH19
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Tim Pilbeam is on an 80-acre smallholding that's surrounded by woodland. He has counted 250 fallow deer on the ground. the trick is to get them in a position where there is a safe back stop for a shot. The £1,200 HIKMICRO Lynx Pro LH19 makes Tim's life easier.
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There are more than two million red, roe, fallow, sika, muntjac and Chinese water deer in Britain’s countryside and semi-urban areas, the highest level for 1,000 years. Numbers have doubled since 1999, according to the Deer Initiative, the UK government’s deer agency.
Deer are an attractive and an important part of our wildlife. However, they have no natural predator in the UK so numbers must be sensibly and strategically managed to keep them in balance with their habitat and to prevent damage to crops, trees, woodland flora, gardens and other wildlife.
Deer cause £4.5 million-worth (Forestry Commission Scotland) of damage to plantations and other commercial woodlands in Scotland. Crop damage is estimated at £4.3m a year according to DEFRA, with the greatest damage on cereal crops in east and south-west England.
More than 8,000 hectares (Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology) of woodland with SSI status is currently in ‘unfavourable’ or ‘recovering’ condition due to deer impacts such as browsing and fraying. Deer can also influence the variety of wildlife in woodlands and other habitats by altering structural and plant species diversity. According to the University of East Anglia’s Dr Paul Dolman, that has resulted in a 50% decline in woodland bird numbers where deer are present, impacting particularly on nightingales, blackcaps, chiffchaffs and warblers.
Deer are susceptible to Bovine TB and may be responsible for the transmission of TB to cattle. They are also the likely driver behind the UK’s increasing tick population (Scharlemann et al 2008).
Happily, venison is a delicious meat. It is wild, natural and free range, and - almost fat-free - it is one of the healthiest meats available today. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Venison is high in protein, low in saturated fatty acids and contains higher levels of iron than any other red meat.
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There are too many guides taking on vast tracts of land specifically to limit access for regular recreational stalkers to ensure they have a regular stream of customers for guiding. They struggle and often don't keep up with necessary cull numbers. I'm not tarring everyone with the same brush. We all know very good professional stalkers, but we also all know plenty who operate like this.
Awesome story thanks
If I had some transport I would come and help out
This is the shortest moderator I have seen so far. Could you please tell us which brand and model it is? Thank you.
@thomaslunt8139
4 ай бұрын
Ase utra SL5
the real problem are people including deer managers and syndicates growing numbers to facilitate a larger potential client base and potential profit margin. no one talks about it as its too inconvenient.
Can you guys bow hunt there?
@fieldsportstv
2 жыл бұрын
No sadly not.
@robertmitchell9415
2 жыл бұрын
Thankfully not, the anti-field sports mob would have a field day if we were allowed to use this method in the UK.
The issue is there are far to many recreational stalkers as you put it holding on to far to much land (thousands and thousands of acres) that hold deer and they can’t physically manage the deer numbers as they only want to take a beast as and when it suits their freezer needs rather than holding a healthy population or guides/“professional” stalkers/syndicates that are only concerned in making as much money as possible from the commoners. Sad.