Lights! Camera! Action…?

It’s funny how the best laid plans in stalking often don’t materialise in the way you intend – maybe the weather or a gut feeling means you end up doing something entirely different to your initial plan. This was precisely the case in early January up at Kinnaird Estate.

I had deliberately left a few days clear of clients up on the hill in order to get some filming done for The Shooting Show, working on the hind cull at Kinnaird. The dates had been planned for a long while, and the diary was kept clear while Graeme and I were staying up in Craignuisq – known to us as HQ.

With the camera ready for action, the only thing that could