UK Trophy Hunting
MANCHURIAN SIKA
DESCRIPTION
A medium size deer, height to the shoulder about 38 – 40 inches, weight 180 – 240 lbs. The coat colour in the summer is chestnut red with white spots, turning grey-black in winter.
ANTLERS
On a good mature typical stag these should have 8 points. A non-typical stag can be multi-pointed.
BEST TIME TO HUNT
Late September through till the end of December.
HUNTING AREA
England and south-west Scotland.
RUT
Late September / early October.
AXIS DEER
DESCRIPTION
A medium size deer, height to the shoulder about 32 – 36 inches, weight 150 – 200 lbs. The coat colour is a bright reddish beige with white spots which are very prominent.
ANTLERS
On a mature stag the antlers should have 3 points per side but can have extra tines, but these are usually small.
BEST TIME TO HUNT
Late August through to the end of December.
HUNTING AREA
England and Scotland.
RUT
There is no fixed mating time.
JAPANESE SIKA
DESCRIPTION
A medium size deer, height to the shoulder about 34 – 36 inches, weight 150 – 180 lbs. The coat colour in the summer is chestnut red with white spots, turning grey-black in the winter.
ANTLERS
On a mature stag these should have 8 points but can have more.
BEST TIME TO HUNT
Late September through to December.
HUNTING AREA
England and Scotland.
RUT
Late September / October.
MUNTJAC DEER
DESCRIPTION
A very small deer. Height to the shoulder 18 – 20 inches, weight 25 – 30 lbs. The coat colour is generally reddish brown in the summer, turning grey brown in winter, and has two dark stripes on the face. The male’s upper canine teeth are elongated into tusks that protrude from his lips.
ANTLERS
The antlers grow from bony hair-covered pedicles and consist of a short main beam with small tines close to the base. The pedicles get shorter as the buck gets older.
BEST TIME TO HUNT
October through to March.
HUNTING AREA
Central and southern England.
RUT
There is no fixed mating time.
CHINESE WATER DEER
DESCRIPTION
A very small deer. Height to the shoulder 20 – 21 inches. Weight 25 – 30 Ibs. The cost colour is yellowish-brown turning brownish flecked with grey in the winter. In this breed the male does not grown antlers, but the upper canine teeth are greatly elongated to form tusks that protrude from the upper lip.
BEST TIME TO HUNT
November through to March.
HUNTING AREA
Central England.
RUT
Mostly in December.
FALLOW DEER
DESCRIPTION
A medium size deer, height to the shoulder about 34 – 36 inches, weight 140 – 200 Ibs. The coat colour – there can be many colour variations in this breed from white through to very dark brown.
ANTLERS
These have brow and trez tines and are well palmated at the top with a good number of points coming off the back edge of palmation.
BEST TIME TO HUNT
Late August through to End of December.
HUNTING AREA
England and Scotland.
RUT
Late October / early November.
HOG DEER
DESCRIPTION
A small deer but very heavily built. Height to the shoulder 24 – 29 inches, weight 80 – 100 lbs. The coat colour is yellow brown or brown.
ANTLERS
A typical mature buck will have three points per side: main beam, and front and back tines.
BEST TIME TO HUNT
September through December.
HUNTING AREA
England.
RUT
There is no fixed mating time.
ROE DEER
DESCRIPTION
A small size deer. Height to the shoulder 26 – 38 inches, weight 45 – 80 lbs. The coat colour in summer is bright reddish brown turning to grey in winter.
ANTLERS
On a mature Roe buck these consist of a main beam and two tines, one pointing forward and one pointing backwards.
BEST TIME TO HUNT
April – May, late July – early August, but can be hunted from April through to the end of October.
HUNTING AREA
England and Scotland.
RUT
Late July – early August.
PERE DAVID DEER
DESCRIPTION
A large deer. Height to the shoulder about 45 – 47 inches, weight 330 – 440 Ibs. The coat colour in the summer is reddish turning to grey in the winter.
ANTLERS
These are large with the main beam growing upwards from the forehead, and long backward-pointing tines which have small tines growing off them which can be seen here.
BEST TIME TO HUNT
Late August / September.
HUNTING AREA
England.
RUT
June / July.
TROPHY AWARDS
INTERNATIONAL TROPHY AWARDS
We can help hunters work towards a number of international trophy award programmes. Explore the award categories below to see the species we can provide.
Click an award below to view the qualifying species available through Hunting Vacations Scotland.
TROPHY ANIMALS OF EUROPE
TROPHY ANIMALS OF EUROPE
In this group we can help you with 16 different species, which would give you Silver Level.
SPECIES WE CAN OFFER
- Trophy Red Stag
- Soay Sheep
- European Mouflon
- Scottish Red Deer
- European Fallow Deer
- European Roe Deer
- Feral Goat
- Japanese Sika Deer
- Manchurian Sika Deer
- Hog Deer
- Pere David Deer
- Reeves Muntjac
- Chinese Water Deer
- English Free Ranging Red Stag
- Barasingha
GRAND SLAM OF EUROPEAN DEER
GRAND SLAM OF EUROPEAN DEER
Complete the award with any 9 of the qualifying species.
SPECIES WE CAN PROVIDE
- Scottish Red Deer
- European Red Deer
- European Fallow Deer
- European Roe Deer
- Manchurian Sika Deer
- Japanese Sika Deer
- Hog Deer
- Pere David Deer
- Chinese Water Deer
- Reeves Muntjac
- English Red Stag
- Barasingha
ANTLERED GAME OF THE WORLD
ANTLERED GAME OF THE WORLD
In this group we can help you with 13 different species, which would give you Copper Level.
SPECIES WE CAN PROVIDE
- Scottish Red Deer
- European Red Deer
- Japanese Sika
- Manchurian Sika
- Axis Deer
- Hog Deer
- Fallow Deer
- Pere David Deer
- European Roe Deer
- Reeves Muntjac
- English Red Stag
- Barasingha
RED DEER / WAPITI OF THE WORLD
RED DEER / WAPITI OF THE WORLD
Copper Level: any 4 animals from this group. We can help you with 3 of the qualifying species.
SPECIES WE CAN PROVIDE
- Wapiti, Europe
- English Red Deer
- Scottish Red Deer
WORKING TOWARDS A TROPHY AWARD?
We can help you plan a UK hunting itinerary around the species required for your chosen trophy award.