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  2. Deer stalking - Wikipedia

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    Deer stalkers on Glenfeshie Estate spying with telescopes, ca. 1858. Stalking is defined as pursuing or approaching stealthily, which is often necessary when approaching wild deer or the high seat overseeing the area where the deer are likely to be passing.

  3. Walter Henry Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith

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    Scott died in a hunting accident on 18 September 1886 at the age of 26. He was deer stalking along the shores of Loch Arkaig at the estate of his aunt Lady Margaret Cameron. While pursuing a stag downhill which he had shot in the Achnacarry Forest, he slipped and slid down the hill while still holding his rifle.

  4. Hunting strategy - Wikipedia

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    Though stalking and still-hunting may resemble in many ways, while the still hunter follows game through its haunts following tracks, stalking, or spot and stalk hunting, consists in locating game from afar and trying to approach within shooting distance, taking advantage of the territory's geography, forest, wind direction and sun location, thus, avoiding to be detected through sight, sounds ...

  5. Lloyd rifle - Wikipedia

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    The Lloyd Rifle was the 1950s brainchild of English deer-stalker, rifleman, metallurgist and engineer David Llewellyn Lloyd.His objective was to create a high-quality, scope-sighted, magazine-fed sporting rifle capable of dependably high accuracy at long ranges, of retaining its zero despite rough handling, and of firing modern high-intensity, flat shooting cartridges such as the .244 H&H ...

  6. William Scrope - Wikipedia

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    Scrope was a direct descendant of Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton, and was the last male representative of his family.He married, in 1794, Emma Long, daughter of Charles Long, of Grittleton, Wiltshire, and had an only daughter and heir, Emma Phipps; she married, in 1821, George Poulett Thomson, who then assumed the name and arms of Scrope.

  7. Gillie - Wikipedia

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    Gillie or ghillie is an ancient Gaelic term for a person who acts as a servant or attendant on a fishing, hunting, deer stalking or hawking expedition, primarily in the Scottish Highlands or on a river such as the River Spey. In origin it referred especially to someone who attended on behalf of his male employer or guests.

  8. Ledgowan Forest - Wikipedia

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    The main attraction of Ledgowan Forest is stalking (as deer hunting is called in Scotland). Stalking is available on two separate beats on a mix of rolling hills and steep corries. Large stags are plentiful and the area was mentioned several times in the recent Half a Century of Scottish Deer Stalking by G. Kenneth Whitehead.

  9. Scottish Deerhound - Wikipedia

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    Deer-stalking London: Chapman & Hall 1886 ; Hart-Davis, Duff. Monarchs of the Glen: A History of Deer-stalking in the Scottish Highlands. J. Cape, 1978. Hartley, A.N. The Deerhound. 1986. (Available from the Scottish Deerhound Club of America and the Deerhound Club (UK)) Macrae, Alexander. A Handbook of Deer-stalking Edinburgh: William ...

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