With a little help from my friends

I am convinced that the most effective way of managing the non-herding deer species on a lowland estate is by group culling. As an individual stalker, I can get around the woods week on week, picking away at the numbers and, hopefully by the end of the winter, building a reasonable total.

But a single stalker cannot be in two places at once. While he is having a blank morning sitting in his high seat, or stalking in vain for a deer on one side of the estate, he cannot be training his rifle on a couple of roe, or fallow strolling across a ride a quarter of a mile away. But place six Rifles in the best places on the estate simultaneously, morning and evening over a couple of days, and you stand a much better chance of making a dent