i have also been lucky and have hunted deer all over uk the last 26 years and have been on land that not many wouldnt ever be so lucky to go on after deer , i have caught red deer in the day and at night loads of times ,i will give you they have been highland reds but still reds , i have seen the pictures of the red stag caught in the rut down south with the 2xbulls form a well known bull line and this wasnt a one off ,average fallow dogs dont miss many sika stags,if a sika,fallow kicked a dog in mouth hes losing his teeth belive me .perherps its not so much the deer but the dogs chasing them