ROE DEER: MANAGEMENT AND STALKING. By Richard Prior.

(2000) 2006 revised reprint. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp192. Colour photographs throughout, illustrations, bibliography. Pictorial laminated boards.

This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive work on roe deer and roe stalking. Unfortunately now out-of-print and becoming quite scarce. Chapters include: Introduction to roe stalking; Know your quarry - origins and spread, behaviour, feeding, the rut, antlers, diseases and domestic stock; Damage - crops, gardens, woodlands, farm crops; Management - making a plan, can you kill the lot?, roe as an asset; Stalking know-how - legal considerations, firearms, licences, sale of venison, safety, insurance, close seasons, rifles, ammunition, sights, zeroing, stalking clothes, stalking equipment, high seats; Stalking technique - still-hunting,sitting, deciding what to shoot, the shot and after, dispatching wounded deer, a clean gralloch, healthy and unhealthy deer, dogs, skinning and butchery, trophies; The stalker's year - March to February. Appendices give digests of the main legislation affecting deer, ballistics of popular cartridges, CIC trophy measurement, reading list, organisations providing training and advice on deer, health, safety and hygene regulations.