Deer managers’ winter cull plans should, by now, be well advanced, though the Christmas festivities are often a hindrance when it comes to stalking. I’m a great believer in hard graft in winter: no deer management plan can be successful without it.
Despite a slow start this year, I have been making good progress on my upland roe. No good deed goes unpunished, as they say, and I was lucky enough to get permission a while back on a farm in Warwickshire; the county, of course, of William Shakespeare: “To fallow, or not to fallow, that is the question.”
For years, I have done my very best to acquire a bit of ground in the south, mostly to get experience on muntjac and fallow. It has been quite difficult to acquire new pieces of land anywhere south of the Humber. It is not for
