The fantastic four
In 2018 a Swedish hunter called Timmy Olsson took three gold-medal roe during his visit. In 2019 on the same estate he and his friend, Manollo Rodriguez, grassed four gold-medal heads between 30 April and 1 May, which scored 174.53, 173.95, 135.68, and 134.1. The largest of the heads was scored at CIC headquarters in Budapest, where it was awarded an international gold medal.
These great triumphs demonstrate what can be achieved by careful management, offering hard-pressed estates a revenue stream while affording roe the status that, as a native species, it deserves.
Calum Campbell, the keeper on the Esslemont estate in Aberdeenshire where the deer were hunted, offered some insight into his
