Velvet glove approach

There are always a number of bucks that are still in velvet at the start of the roebuck season on 1 April. This more often than not starts a debate within the deer management community as to whether shooting a roebuck still in velvet is the ‘done thing’. There are some pretty trenchant views about this out there.

In Scotland, there is also the debate about increasing the length of the season for male deer. Some people have suggested that male deer should not have a close season at all. Personally, I cannot fathom the reason