Field Notes. Unfiltered.
Feral /fɛrəl/ — adj. in a wild state after escape from domestication. n. a person with unconventional, anti-establishment views.
This is not a hunting blog.
It is a field record — of what managing deer for an ecosystem rather than a trophy actually looks like, season by season. Real, raw, and intentionally disruptive. Written by someone who has been doing this for over forty years and who believes the people who eat wild meat have a right to see exactly what it means, from the hill to the plate.
You already know the ecological argument — why deer management is not a contradiction of rewilding but a necessary condition of it. This is where the argument becomes practice: the shot, the gralloch, the larder, the people the meat reaches.
Whether you are a stalker, interested in sustainable venison, a future trainee, or someone who thinks honest food should be traceable all the way back — you are welcome here. The ecological argument is at gowildinthecountry.co.uk when you want it.