Deer prudence

Patrick Galbraith calls for a change of attitude to wild British venisonn

FROM BEHIND A LARGE ROCK, some 60 yards away, I could hear the shot connecting. A moderated rifle makes a hissing sound and then as the round hits skin and flesh, there’s a muted phut. The first shot was followed by another; then there was a pause before two further shots were fired. I looked up to see 20 hinds, four fewer than there had been, scrambling across the rocky scree with the wind in their faces. Down below us the river was frozen at its edges and the glen was naked in the bright cold. Willie, a man who knows West Affric as well as anybody, stood up from the heather and beckoned me to come up to where he had been shooting with a young ranger called Nicola.…

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