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A deerstalker. A deerstalker is a type of cap that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially deer stalking.Because of the cap's popular association with the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, [1] it has become stereotypical headgear for a detective, especially in comical drawings or cartoons along with farcical plays and films.
Scottish deer stalker glassing the surroundings with a telescope. Deer stalking, or simply stalking, is a British term for the stealthy pursuit of deer on foot to hunt for venison, leisure, trophy, or to control their numbers [1] as part of wildlife management, just as with rabbiting and boar hunting.
Professional stalker standing next to a red deer stag shot on Ardnamurchan Estate in the Scottish Highlands. The vast majority of deer hunted in the UK are stalked. The phrase deer hunting is used to refer (in England and Wales) to the traditional practice of chasing deer with packs of hounds, currently illegal under the Hunting Act 2004.
Designed as a close range carbine for deer hunting in dense woods, Ruger released the Model 44 Carbine in 1961 as the "Deerstalker", a moniker it used until 1962 after which a lawsuit brought by the Ithaca Gun Company prohibited them from doing so.
MacQueen of Pall a' Chrocain was a legendary Highland deer stalker popularly believed to have slain the last wolf in Scotland in 1743. The scene of the incident was Darnaway Forest in the province of Morayshire.
The Duke shot 3,283 red deer and over 2,000 chamois in his life, as well as numerous boar, roe deer and small game, much of the shooting was stalked although in the forests of Thuringia the deer was usually driven and as the Duke aged, the chamois at Hinterriß were also driven.
The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American [3] [4] [5] steelworkers whose lives are upended after fighting in the Vietnam War.
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