DEER STALKING

The long term aim of Cornbury Park Estate is to maximise the income from its deer through careful culling to produce maximum venison and good quality standard bucks and stag trophies for visiting stalkers.

Four species of deer are to be found at Cornbury. In the Park are two herds, one of Formosan Sika, a much larger and more imposing animal than its Manchurian Japanese cousins, the other of Fallow, ranging in colour from white through melanistic to the almost charcoal black menal. In the Wychwood Forest there are numerous Fallow, Roe and Muntjac.

The deer are managed by Wychwood Forest Deer Management on a contract basis by Head Stalker, Jim Brannan, a Sparsholt College ANCDM qualified deer manager.

Syndicate Rifles (15 rifles)
24 days stalking during the season (1st September to 30th April) to include the taking of 2 adult Fallow and Muntjac bucks and one adult specimen each of Sika and Roe. There will be no limit on the number of does taken from the forest.

Park Stalking (enclosed herd of classic Sika & fallow)
Stalking in the confines of the enclosed 400 acres of Cornbury Park is restricted to test days for stalkers under instruction and the taking of medal standard trophy animals.

Stalking Instruction and Training
An introduction to practical deer stalking, instruction by HNCDM qualified stalkers, including range zeroing, high seat stalking, woodland stalking on foot in pursuit of Sika, Fallow and Muntjac deer.

For further details please contact Wychwood Forest Deer Management Jim Brannan (01608) 811272