Shooting Times & Country

Stalking Diary

Davy Thomas is a professional deerstalker and estate manager in the Highlands

It has been much publicised lately that there are some areas of Scotland that have come to loggerheads between private landowners, community landowners and charity trust organisations.

Bitter clashes between differing mindsets of deer management and land use are ongoing. In one instance, the local community is exploring using new

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