Chinese water deer stalking in Bedfordshire

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ต.ค. 2009
  • With a few weeks to go before the end of the Chinese water deer season, Sporting Rifle editor Pete Carr has his work cut out making up cull numbers on one Bedfordshire farm.
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ความคิดเห็น • 19

  • @iain777uk
    @iain777uk 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    great video & nice shooting

  • @bjhummer5322
    @bjhummer5322 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    and 22.250 is used a lot for deer and prong horn, just saying a headshot is a headshot and a bullet put in the right place can take anything within reason

  • @russellturnbull5384
    @russellturnbull5384 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice shoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @indyreno2933
    @indyreno2933 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Despite their name, water deer are not deer at all, they are the only extant genus of the family Hydropotidae, there are two extant species of water deer, the Chinese Water Deer (Hydropotes inermis) and the Korean Water Deer (Hydropotes argyropus), the closest living relatives of the water deer are the musk deer (genus Moschus), which are the only extant genus of another family known as Moschidae, both Moschidae (Musk Deer and Fossil Relatives) and Hydropotidae (Water Deer and Fossil Relatives) are the only two extant families of the broader superfamily Moschoidea, which is the only extant superfamily of the infraorder Ceratodonta, which is part of the suborder Neoselenodontia (Herbivorous Even-Toed Hoofed Mammals), being only more derived than Tragulina (Chevrotains and Fossil Relatives) but is basal to the rest of Neoselenodontia, with the pecorans (infraorder Pecora) being more closely related to the tylopods (infraorder Tylopoda) than they are to the chevrotains and moschoids.

  • @TheMagicalTouch
    @TheMagicalTouch 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    no, but a louder sound would alert the other deer, who would then run away, and come back the next day? why? if you could get most of them in 1 day, rather then just 1 a day...

  • @motomeadyhuntingndmotocros6147
    @motomeadyhuntingndmotocros6147 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is this guys name id lyk 2 contact him im as im in 2 all this hunting and im also from bedfordshire

  • @macroguard
    @macroguard 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Try looking here

  • @fartunique
    @fartunique 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sika deer are a nightmare, not to mention that they breed with the red deer. They need to be culled until there are no more.

  • @desimonenoah
    @desimonenoah 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Silencer really? Its not like you are infiltrating the chinese waterdeer stronghold of britain.

  • @georgewgardner
    @georgewgardner 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    i think they have to pay for a license to own one maybe

  • @bjhummer5322
    @bjhummer5322 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    and we cant have silencers in america... unless you can drop 10 grand on it.

  • @732jack732
    @732jack732 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    i wish that you could spell

  • @Igladeon345
    @Igladeon345 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    BASC

  • @firefox8192
    @firefox8192 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    a necessary service.

  • @Igladeon345
    @Igladeon345 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    cause of the tax stamp they pay for and suppressors are very expensive theyre

  • @macroguard
    @macroguard 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Google british dee society and yorkshire deer stalking