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Scotland is home to the finest stalking in the world and Alasdair Mitchell chooses the best places everyone ought to visit at least once in an article for Shooting Times
I have to admit that I haven’t shot a red stag for years. These days, I tend to stalk hinds, for budgetary reasons. Yet money is a renewable resource, whereas time is not, so perhaps I should go to the hill for a stag while I still can. But if so, where are the best places for stalking in Scotland?
1.Forest of Atholl
The Forest of Atholl, in Highland Perthshire, would certainly be on my list. This is an ancient deer forest — and here I use ‘forest’ in its original sense of a hunting preserve, rather than woodland. It has long been popular with royalty. Queen Mary attended a driven hunt at Atholl in 1563 that accounted for 360 deer and five wolves.