Shooting Times & Country

High time for a cull

Team culling accounts for the largest proportion of the deer that are killed on the estates where I do most of my stalking. The reason for this is pretty obvious.

Someone like me, getting on the ground about once a week, can only devote a limited amount of time to shooting deer and I can only be in one place at a time. But if I get a small team of capable and experienced Rifles and place them in good positions, morning and evening, over two or three successive days, I can multiply the opportunities for a useful cull. Instead of a single Rifle bringing two or three carcasses to

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