I’ve got to admit, there was a point when I was crawling through a muddy, freezing cold river on my hands and knees in mid-November when I began to think that maybe Scottish hindstalking wasn’t for me. Luckily, the day did improve and I’d now go as far as to say that I’m a hindstalking convert.
Hinds are female red deer and in Scotland can be culled from 21 October to 15 February, which, without wanting to state the obvious, isn’t the time of year you’ll experience the best weather. We visited around 20 November and our gillie (guide) proudly told us they’d had snow a