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017.jpg The Weihrauch HW60: in 17HMR, shortened by 8in and screwcut for a Jet-Z moderator, owned and work carried out by Chris Blackburn. Scope is a Leupold VII 3-9x50 and it has a Harris bipod
 
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001.jpg Ballistic wax showing bullet path and expansion, 2730 x 2130ORIGINAL ARTICLEBest bullet for a deerJim Govan is a senior forensic biologist. Matt Brammer heard him talk about internal ballistics at a Deer Commission for Scotland event There was once a sign on a the wall at a maternity hospital which read something like: “Be careful! The first few minutes of life are the most dangerous”. Underneath it, some wag had written” The last few are pretty dodgy, too.”Death - as senior forensic biologist Jim Govan will tell you - is not an exact science. However, a basic grounding in “terminal ballistics” will help you administer it to your quarry far faster.It’s not as grand as it sounds. Terminal ballistics simply means what a bullet does the moment it hits what you were aiming at. As Jim says: “Incapacitation and rapid death is what you want. Terminal ballistics is how we achieve it.”There are two main ways to stop a deer. One is a direct hit to the central nervous system, which means an accurate shot to the lower brain stem or the upper spinal cord. That’s hard to achieve.The other is the disruption of the circulatory system. Here, the more damage you can inflict on the heart/lung area, the more blood loss, the quicker the death. Shock may cause unconsciousness.There’s a butchery issue here. The longer the heart is beating, the more bruising will occur to the meat. And there’s the practical issue that you want the deer down fast so you don’t have to follow it. “It’s very difficult for us to get a handle on how fast a bullet goes through a beast,” says Jim. “Quite a lot of what happens takes place after the bullet has gone through.”There is one surefire way to cause a lot of damage to the heart and lungs and that’s to use expanding ammunition. That is especially important when the deer has winded you. Isn’t it extraordinary how a deer nibbling grass will go straight down but a deer that’s looking up because it thinks it has seen you, shot in same place at th
 
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042.jpg Lincolnshire Deer Group Highseat. LDG hasn’t advertised them much and doesn’t make a lot of money out of them but sales have been so successful they have raised a four-figure cash sum. Designed by a local agricultural engineering company, the freestanding and lean-to high seats come in mild, galvanised and stainless steel and prices start from £300. They are very hardwearing and Malcolm Armstrong says they will last a lifetime. 3456 x 2304
 
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040.jpg Lincolnshire Deer Group Highseat. LDG hasn’t advertised them much and doesn’t make a lot of money out of them but sales have been so successful they have raised a four-figure cash sum. Designed by a local agricultural engineering company, the freestanding and lean-to high seats come in mild, galvanised and stainless steel and prices start from £300. They are very hardwearing and Malcolm Armstrong says they will last a lifetime. 3456 x 2304
 
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038.jpg Lincolnshire Deer Group Highseat. LDG hasn’t advertised them much and doesn’t make a lot of money out of them but sales have been so successful they have raised a four-figure cash sum. Designed by a local agricultural engineering company, the freestanding and lean-to high seats come in mild, galvanised and stainless steel and prices start from £300. They are very hardwearing and Malcolm Armstrong says they will last a lifetime. 3456 x 2304
 
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036.jpg Lincolnshire Deer Group Highseat. LDG hasn’t advertised them much and doesn’t make a lot of money out of them but sales have been so successful they have raised a four-figure cash sum. Designed by a local agricultural engineering company, the freestanding and lean-to high seats come in mild, galvanised and stainless steel and prices start from £300. They are very hardwearing and Malcolm Armstrong says they will last a lifetime. 3456 x 2304
 
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011.jpg Chris Blackburn and his highseat, 3456 x 2304
 
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009.jpg Chris Blackburn (left) and Rich McFall put up the highseat, 3456 x 2304
 
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060.jpg Forestry Commission Scotland's Bob Logan helps a stalker on the BASC deer management scheme.On the back is the trailer he uses to bring deer carcases off the hill, 3456 x 2304
 
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057.jpg Forestry Commission Scotland's Bob Logan prepares to go up a hill on Arran to help a stalker on the BASC deer management scheme. He is putting together the trailer he will use to bring a deer carcase off the hill, 3456 x 2304
 
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055.jpg Forestry Commission Scotland's Bob Logan prepares to go up a hill on Arran to help a stalker on the BASC deer management scheme. He is putting together the trailer he will use to bring a deer carcase off the hill, 3456 x 2304
 
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050.jpg Forestry Commission Scotland's Bob Logan prepares to go up a hill on Arran to help a stalker on the BASC deer management scheme. He is putting together the trailer he will use to bring a deer carcase off the hill, 3456 x 2304
 
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005.jpg Deer Watch A Field Guide; Richard Prior1836 x 2785
 
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008.jpg Boarshooter Otto Astrachewsky and his nine-year-old daughter Paulina on Baron von Mayrhofen's estate in Bavaria, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBoarshooting is half skill, half addiction. A good shot can make an almost impossible situation go right. He or she will be ready to fling the rifle to their shoulder and shoot in the split second it takes for a boar to cross a ride. Or if the boar is at a difficult angle for a shot, they will turn it by shooting in front of it.Who goes on these boar shoots from the UK? “You get the regulars,” says Peter Carr, the sporting agent in charge of our group and regular contributor to Sporting Rifle, “but two-thirds of shooters who come with me are new to it.“What it is with British clients is they are all driven bird shots and they want to try this. But it’s often not what they expect. I prefer it when stalkers come out here.“This is totally different to pheasant shooting. It’s more like a fox drive with a Welsh gun pack.”We were in Bavaria for two days’ driven boar – one small day on Count Erbach’s estate and a big day on Baron von Mayrhofen’s land. The party consisted of three groups of friends from Northumberland and Derbyshire. Most were new to boarshooting.Brian Scott had most of the sport in the British party. He shot four boar and a fox on the first “knockabout” day. He also hit a keiler – a large male boar – that was finished off by the next gun. Brian is a good shot. He is a Foresty Commission wildlife ranger at Kielder Forest and part of his job is culling 250 roe deer a year. He has been with the Forestry Commission for four years. Before that, he was a keeper/stalker on an estate in Banffshire. He has stalked all six of the UK’s deer species plus wild goat and a British wild boar in Scotland. He is using a Blaser R93 in .30-06, which he bought specifically for boar shooting. Scope is a Zeiss Aimpoint 2.5-10x50.Brian was not a novice. He had came out with Peter Carr to the same estate on a driven boar hunt in 2006.
 
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014.jpg Rob Aiken looking for fallow deer in Derbyshire3456 x 2304
 
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010.jpg Neville Cunningham (left) and Rob Aiken looking for fallow deer in Derbyshire3456 x 2304
 
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003.jpg David Kenyon climbing up to a highseat on the Hamptworth estate, Wiltshire. David is using a Weatherby Vanguard in .308 calibre and a Docter VZF 2.5-10X48 -M- scope.2304 x 3456
 
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007.jpg Devon deerstalker Jo Honeybourne, 3456 x 2304
 
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035.jpg Somerset deerstalker Matt turley with a Heym in .243 with Schmidt and bender 8x56 scope, 3456 x 2304
 
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044.jpg Stalker Peter Phillips from Shropshire with a Medwell & Perret 6.5 x 55 calibre swedish Mauser. His scope is a Zeiss 2.5-10x48 T* Diavari Z. rifle, shooter, deer, arran, 2304 x 3456rifle, shooter, deer, arran,
 
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045.jpg Paul Douglas of Hertfordshire with Sako 75 in .30-06 calibre. He has a Schmidt and Bender 8x56 scope. Usually stalks roe, muntjac fallow and chinese water deer.2304 x 3456
 
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046.jpg Nigel Dewey from Hertfordshire with Steyr Mannlicher in .308 calibre and Swarovski 4-12x50 scope. mainly a lowland stalker
 
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047.jpg Trevor Holliday from Leicestershire. Using a 6.5x55 Sauer 202. Using a Schmidt and Bender 3-12x42 scope. Also a keen foxhunter 2304 x 3456
 
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048.jpg Stuart Pugh from Northumberland. He uses a Sauer 202 in .308 calibrewith T8 moderator and Schmidt and Bender 8x56 Klassik scope. 2304 x 3456
 
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052.jpg Eddie Kane from Lancashire. Uses a Tikka T3 in .30-06 with Ase Utra S5 moderator. Hois scope is a Schmidt and Bender Klassik 3-12x42.3456 x 2304
 
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053.jpg Peter Goodrick from York. He has a Tikka T3 .308 with T8 moderator and Leupold VXIII 3.5x50 with illuminated reticule3456 x 2304
 
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078.jpg Remington 700, 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEKeith Varley’s foxing rifle started life as a 22-250 Remington 700. A friend of his had it for target shooting and liked its groups, so he sent it down to Norman Clark Gunsmith for some customisation. Norman Clark converted it to 6mm PPC, put on a Shilen trigger and a barrel by Border Barrels, glass bedded into the stock. Then the friend found an even better rifle, so sold this one to Keith. “I would have had a Jewell trigger but the Shilen trigger is what Norman did,” says Keith.The set-up includes a Nightforce 8-32x56 scope with ladder reticle instead of mil-dot and a sidewheel adjustment. Keith explains: “There’s a lot of woodland where I shoot. You get foxes creeping around. You will see an eye; you have checked it’s a fox not a roe deer. The beauty of this scope is you can zoom in from the back and adjust the focus on the sidewheel.“With a Swarovski scope, you daren’t do that, because if you start fiddling with the focus/zoom at the front, you can lose the fox. The only problem with the Nightforce scope is its pop-up lens protectors, which swivel when you zoom in.”The rifle has a Harris bipod. Keith likes the heavier bipods but prefers shooting off a bag when using the car bonnet as a rest.He also has a monopod near the butt of the rifle, which he grips with his left hand when he takes a shot. “I was brought up to believe that the less contact I have with the gun the better,” he says.“I’ve got quite a lot of money tied up in the rifle and scope but, if I’m doing a job, I’ve got to do it well. Every shot I take, I put a rod through it.”He doesn’t use a moderator on this gun because the extra weight would make it feel awkward but he has a Reflex T8 on his other gun – a Mannlicher .243 Rem he bought for deer. He says he has a friend who worked in forestry and went deaf because he used an unmoderated rifle. Scope on that is a 6-18x50 Swarovski on Mannlicher snap-on mounts. He also owns a .22 Hornet.“I don’t think
 
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039.jpg Lincolnshire Deer Group Highseat. LDG hasn’t advertised them much and doesn’t make a lot of money out of them but sales have been so successful they have raised a four-figure cash sum. Designed by a local agricultural engineering company, the freestanding and lean-to high seats come in mild, galvanised and stainless steel and prices start from £300. They are very hardwearing and Malcolm Armstrong says they will last a lifetime. 3456 x 2304
 
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037.jpg Lincolnshire Deer Group Highseat. LDG hasn’t advertised them much and doesn’t make a lot of money out of them but sales have been so successful they have raised a four-figure cash sum. Designed by a local agricultural engineering company, the freestanding and lean-to high seats come in mild, galvanised and stainless steel and prices start from £300. They are very hardwearing and Malcolm Armstrong says they will last a lifetime. 3456 x 2304
 
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063.jpg A deer carcase sled, pulled by a quadbike, 2048 x 1536
 
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059.jpg Forestry Commission Scotland's Bob Logan goes up a hill on Arran to help a stalker on the BASC deer management scheme.On the back is the trailer he will use to bring a deer carcase off the hill, 3456 x 2304
 
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058.jpg Forestry Commission Scotland's Bob Logan prepares to go up a hill on Arran to help a stalker on the BASC deer management scheme. He is putting together the trailer he will use to bring a deer carcase off the hill, 3456 x 2304
 
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056.jpg Forestry Commission Scotland's Bob Logan prepares to go up a hill on Arran to help a stalker on the BASC deer management scheme. He is putting together the trailer he will use to bring a deer carcase off the hill, 3456 x 2304
 
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030.jpg Land Rover Disocvery carrying deerstalkers in Cornwall, 3456 x 2304
 
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015.jpg Stalker support kit: what BASC deer managers carry with them on Arran, in case of emergencyORIGINAL ARTICLERed rut island paradiseThe roaring of red stags is billowing across Scotland. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of shooters on the BASC deer management scheme on ArranFor his brother Stuart’s birthday, Toby Wilson gave him £350-worth of red stag stalking in Scotland. Go to a posh estate and that will buy you as little as a day and a cull knobber. Go on the BASC deer management scheme on the island of Arran and that buys you a whole week’s stalking with an unlimited bag limit of some of the most impressive heads in Scotland. And no trophy fees.Arran is the rugby ball-shaped island off Ayrshire. Dubbed “the Highlands in miniature” land here rises from sea level to XXXft Goatfell. It can be tough stalking.BASC leases the sporting rights on the 27,500-acre Forestry Commission land on Arran, which holds around 500 beasts. There are two other large estates on Arran which between them hold 1,700 beasts on open land: Dougreay (Sp?) owned by XXXX and Arran Estates owned by Charlie Forbes (CHECK THIS?). This year, BASC members have to cull 135 of its population, with resident ranger Forestry Commission ranger Bob Logan taking another 15 off Goatfell. The other two estates take around 280 off their land. The island is characterised by the amount of deer fencing protecting everything from large estates to vegetable plots.Bob and Neil Griffiths are BASC’s team on the island, running the programme with radios and mobile phones, driving round and round the island and bringing carcases off the hill on quad bike trailers.BASC runs XX weeks a year for up to16 of its members at a time. They share 25 beats, all of which include land from low woodland to high hill so whatever the cloudbase, you can find somewhere to shoot.Although there is no bag limit, BASC has never had to tell a stalking pair to stop shooting. “In many cases the weather beats the stalkers before the we
 
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025.jpg Boarshooting in Croatia, Geoff Humble from Northumberland was using a Holland & Holland .300H&H built in 1925 – about the time the company invented the calibre. It is the takedown version, designed for travelling. Geoff admits that, to be true to its date, it should be used with open sights but he has fitted it with a Swarovski 3-10x42 Habicht scope with Apel mounts. He has shot driven game with it in Poland, plainsgame in Botswana and every species of British deer except roe. 3456 x 2304ORIGINAL ARTICLEBudget driven boarSTANDFIRST: Where do you go for the best-value boar in Europe. Charlie Jacoby joins a party of lads from Northumberland, who reckon they’ve found the answer in CroatiaWhen syndicate guns and guests from the Whitfield shoot in Northumberland decided to go driven boar shooting in continental Europe, the choice of where to go, how much to pay and even how to get there became an almost military operation of strategy and planning. Whitfield headkeeper Stuart Maughan was the lynchpin of the party. He wanted it to go right. The lads had been thinking of going to Germany but Stuart went on a recce there last year. He saw plenty of roe and no boar, so cancelled the trip. He was impressed enough by Lasarotta’s Croatia hunting offer to recommend three days of it to his guns at Whitfield. What clinched it for some was that there are no trophy fees. Lasarotta offers boar hunting in Croatia at a flat rate of £XXX a day.First stop is Petrova Gora, a 14,000ha hilly hunting area two hours south of Zagreb. We put up in a comfortable hotel and next morning line up, kitted out for the three drives. The language barrier with the beaters is no barrier to our shared intention to bring home a bag of driven wild boar.You can hire rifles for euro25 a day with a euro2 charge per cartridge fired. The gun I got was no beauty. A well-used 8x57 with open sights, it fired straight enough when they asked me to shoot it at a cardboard box.After the traditional Continental
 
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018.jpg Tom Garner looking for fallow and roe on the Clinton Devon estate
 
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