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🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Spot-and-stalk hunting—the lifeblood of open-country hunters around the world—may have it's roots in a very special place in the Scottish Highlands. This episode, we visit with Sam Thompson, Head Game Keeper of Kildermorie Estate, during a red stag hunt. Sam shares the story of Great Britain's movement from coursing big game with hounds to spotting and stalking, DIY, putting in the hard yards to earn one's success. We also dig deep into the cartridges and bullets best-suited for hunting red stag. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | For centuries, even thousands of years, hunting was done with dogs. |
| 0:07.3 | Whether it's ancient Egyptians and their artwork that you find in the tombs, right up through |
| 0:13.5 | Renaissance artwork, you will see hunters accompanied by dogs, specifically coursing hounds. |
| 0:21.3 | There was a gentleman in Scotland that my good friend is alleging, |
| 0:28.7 | invented or at least inspired the movement that became spot and stock hunting. |
| 0:34.0 | And this is really fascinating to me. |
| 0:36.3 | I may challenge him a little bit on that, but let me |
| 0:38.9 | introduce to you, folks, Sam Thompson, head gamekeeper at the Victorian estate, or the estate |
| 0:48.0 | that dates back to Victorian Times in Scotland, where we're hunting red stag. You've been on the podcast before. |
| 0:55.0 | You were rather popular, Sam. |
| 0:56.4 | Well, that's rare. |
| 0:58.3 | Joseph, but that's very kind of you. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah, it's lovely to have you guys back again and a challenging week. |
| 1:06.1 | It has been a challenging week. |
| 1:07.9 | And just for those of you that are listening in, watching in, the camera on my iPhone |
| 1:15.4 | can only capture a couple of us. |
| 1:17.7 | But we have Tim Joseph from Bonelli. |
| 1:21.6 | We have my longtime friend David Fabian. |
| 1:24.9 | He's the editor of Guns and Amel Special Interst publications in the background here, as well as John Draper with American Hunter Magazine and Diana Rupp |
| 1:34.9 | with Sportsafield. A veritable list of who's who in the editorial world of hunting and shooting |
| 1:43.2 | titles. It's such a privilege to be here with you all. |
| 1:46.3 | I've told them to just come walk into the circle of trust here and say whatever they like. |
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