Red Deer

[blue staffy 145]

heard storys from mates when they used to go after them that hinds are easy enough for a single dog but big stags are hard work 1 story they told me it took the dog 20 minutes to pull the stag down , never seen it done but there genuine lads that keep top dogs and don't tell lies so i've no reason not to beleive them

[leec 132]

special dogs to do a stag single dont think ill ever see one,

seen it done fair n square double and didnt think that was possible

[dytkos 17,917]

No dog could take one single handed in my opinion. But im sure youll have a few people on here saying there beddie/whippet does them regularly .....

depends if its stags or heinds

 

Not to me it doesnt. Even if there wasnt a ban on i think it would be unfair to slip a single dog on a red deer.

 

I've seen it done (pre ban obviously) in England, Scotland and Wales.

Only seen a couple of single handed stags but quite a few hinds.

 

Edited to say that these were pen deer, not totally wild.

 

Cheers, D.

deer was banned in scotland over 50 yr ago ...

 

a member of this forum had a 1\2 collie 1/2 grey dog that stood 27" that used to take hinds single but never took a stag infact i think it never got slipped on a stag intentionaly

 

Doesn't mean to say no one did it though?

 

Cheers, D.

[Penda 3,355]

ive never saw red done prebanmyself but i know of lads who have done them using decent bull crosses single and doubled reckon the stags take abit of stopping need a dog that has no reverse gear

 

Ive heard of people taking stags but there allways seems to be 2 dogs involved and a lamp or fence. Im not knocking the lads who have done it as the lads that have in my opinion are as game as theyre dogs as it takes bottle to slip there dogs on something that big and fast.

 

Atb

yeah defonatley i think that if your not prepared to get stuck in with the dog or dogs defonatley quarry you shouldnt be slipping the dog on one of these big fellas,me mate told me of a stag that folded his best dog in half like a piece of card board he didnt want to run

[pistol pete01 25]

seen a hind done on heather with a saluki gray

[black recking it 730]

seen a hind done on heather with a saluki gray

[Lost Generation 93]

i was out lamping and down a lane infront of me was a small herd of red deer ,,,,over one hedge onto the lane an then over the next hedge a very agile animal preban what type of dog could stop a red deer if it was ever leagal

 

Scottish Deerhound - the name should give you a clue - it's what these dogs were bred to do and did very sucessfully over hundreds of years.

[poacher28 120]

reds on heather and reds on fields are a difrent story, give them space to open up and they dont hang about for nothing, i personaly think on heather they hit the deck sooner.they take some stopping thats for sure, but in the open , with no knee high heather, no hedges or fences to tip the odds, they are some task were ever they are

Edited September 23, 2012 by poacher28

[Boss-Hog 367]

its ok running reds but they need stopping even [bANNED TEXT] good dogs on em in any terrain imo