I write this after finishing my last outing on roebucks. There are good times and not so good times in a season to hunt roe deer. For my deer management group, October has always been one of those less good times to hunt the elusive roebuck. The reason for this merits discussion.
The roebuck season ended in England and Wales on 31 October, and for any of us out there who spend their working life controlling roe deer, if we hadn’t already completed or were at least close to the agreed cull (usually decided at the beginning or even before the season) then we faced a difficult , if not virtually impossible task.
Here in Northumberland, the Greenlee Deer Management Group may attempt to get the odd buck that has eluded us, but it is unlikely we would succeed. The more mature roebuck would have spent much of its time early in the season battling for territory, and youngsters would have been chased throughout the parish away from the area they were born.
