Deer

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I agree with what you say UncleFester, but if you join a rifle club you can use the clubs rifles and the rifles of other members whilst on the range so the larger calibres are there for new members as well as the smaller calibres. Also many centrefire clubs don't cater for the smaller calibres because they start shooting at 300 metres with centrefire rifles 233 upto 50 cal.

It's a case of 'horses for courses really' When I joined my first club non of the other members were hunters, they just shot at paper so I had to ask around to get stalking with a professional stalker. You can even get deer stalking on ebay these days.

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(30 November 2012, 15:06)Highlander Wrote: Thanks for that,... In this part of Scotland we are surounded by estates, who [ rightly so ] protect their deer because they bring in big bucks from shooters the world over,..it would be almost impossible to gain a weapon this way,...In my job I work with a part-timer who when not doing `our` job is the gillie for one of these estates,... I already get whole beasts from him for my dogs,... but it would be more than his lifes worth to `lend` me a rifle,.... mates would not come into it

.... but thanks for the tip `Guntraders`

Yeah as UncleFester pointed out when I wrote 'lend' a rifle I meant use an estate rifle for the purpose of stalking deer, you just can't go around lending other peoples rifles. The other way to get stalking is to help a Ghillie with his Hind Cull in the winter...No paying guest wants to freeze their bits off in a Scottish winter for a deer that has no trophy antlers.