Landowners use the gun-toting hunters to legally cull the deer and keep numbers down to protect crops.
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Professional groups offer hunting packages – ranging from around £140 to £200-a-day – to kill Red Deer across England. Sites are legal and are littered with photographs of marksmen posing with their kill.
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The internet is full of websites offering huntsmen from around the world prime hunting and stalking in the UK.
”People came here during the shooting season looking for him in particular – and the same may have happened to the Emperor.” But like The Emperor – his name got about and then he was killed. He said: ”We used to have another big stag around here called Bruno.
John Norris, from the Tiverton Staghounds group, based near to the reported killing site of Rackenford, feared the stag’s notoriety may have been the main incentive for the hunter. ”No one knows who killed it, but rumours have been circulating around here that the hunter came from abroad, probably Europe.” The 12-year-old red deer – which weighed 300lbs – was thought to have been gunned down as a ”trophy” with its head and magnificent antlers worth at least £2,000.Ī local farmer, who asked not to be named, said: ”There has been a price on his head for years – with figures stretching to around £1,250. Today it emerged that foreign huntsmen – probably European trophy hunters – may have felled The Emperor after a bounty was literally placed on his head. Witnesses reported hearing two shots from a high velocity rifle before seeing the stag’s crumpled body lying near Rackenford, north Devon.Ī thorough search just a short time later found traces of blood where the might stag had fallen, but the carcass had been removed. The majestic nine-foot tall stag, dubbed the ‘Emperor of Exmoor’, was shot and killed by marksmen just outside Exmoor country park.