88 MY SPORTING HOLIDAYS 



9 pounds (shot by L. H. Jones), one of over 18 

 stone, six of over 17 stone, fourteen of over 16 stone, 

 forty-one of over 15 stone, and forty-nine of over 

 14 stone. 



The heads obtained included one imperial of fifteen 

 points, ten royals, thirteen stags of eleven points, 

 thirty of ten points, thirty-five of nine points, forty- 

 one of eight points, and thirteen switch-horns, the 

 latter, as all stalkers know, being often the oldest and 

 heaviest stags. Taking the entire number, the heads 

 averaged eight and a half points per stag. 



The lessee and host, Colonel W. H. Walker, M.P. 

 who did most of his own stalking, occasionally being 

 in alone at the death, and gralloching the stag himself 

 killed in forty days' stalking, to his own rifle, 

 118 stags, including one imperial of fifteen points, 

 seven royals, eight stags of eleven points, sixteen of 

 ten points, nineteen of nine points, twenty-eight of 

 eight points, and nine switch-horns. 



This performance is, I think, worthy of mention as 

 most probably the ' record ' for a single rifle in fair 

 forest stalking, a record chiefly due to hard work and 

 ' straight ' powder. The guests, of whom I had the 

 good fortune to be one, killed the remaining eighty- 

 four stags amongst them. The above figures will 

 clearly demonstrate to all acquainted with Scotch 

 stalking that the deer killed were mainly warrantable 

 stags, with a fair proportion of master stags. Indis- 

 criminate shooting was not indulged in to swell the 

 total. 



The fact that the ground had not been shot for the 

 last thirteen years of Mr. Winans' lease lends, I am 

 inclined to think, additional interest to the statistics 

 given. No doubt this fact accounts, to a considerable 



