Axis anxiety

“The stag has stood up and started to feed. It could disappear into the high grass any moment now”

has been raining for the last two days, and the grasslands – or the pampas, as the plains are called here in Argentina – are like a wet sponge. The year has been far rainier than average, which makes the conditions for today’s hunt very difficult. Not just that it’s wet – we can get over wet feet – but because the grass has grown incredibly high in most places. So, even though the deer Mark Longhi Andreasen is looking for has approximately the same shoulder height as a fallow buck, he’ll