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affect the Strathnashellag side. It is a forest that 

 can be stalked in all winds, but as usual an easterly 

 one is the worst. Mr. Laycock gets his bag entirely 

 by stalking ; he uses no dogs, and the deer are usually 

 brought home the same day they are killed. Three 

 and sometimes four rifles can take the hill, and their 

 average each season, since Mr. Laycock has had 

 Letterewe, has been just under one hundred stags, 

 the best season being one hundred and twelve, 

 which showed a mean clean weight of 13 stone 

 5 lbs., but this would have worked out much higher 

 had a good few "rotten" and bad stags not been 

 included in the list, which, although they were 

 only killed off to make room for better ones, were 

 yet weighed and taken into account. 



In the season of 1895 Mr. Laycock, who was 

 yachting during the stalking time, sent a friend 

 up to Letterewe with a limit of forty stags, which 

 were, of course, easily got. There are many hills, 

 ranging from 2,800 to 2,000 ft. On the south 

 the forest marches with those of Flowerdale and 



