Sporting Shooter

It Ain’t Getting Any Easier

THERE are few places in the world that offer such superb hunting as the hunting of the legendary ambar deer with little financial outlay in the way of fee and licences associated with it, in short, we are extremely lucky, no matter which way you look at it. Whether you follow the exhilarating sport of hunting over hounds or enjoy the thrill of the stalk is a matter of personal choice.

“At the sound of the shot the hind bolted straight around and up the gully.”

In the early days of my deer hunting I participated in both and, while my wife reckons I have wasted the last 40 years doing it, I wouldn’t have traded the time for anything. With deer numbers, no matter what the species, on the increase now is the time to be getting into it if you have been considering a

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