IMO deer from the wild taste far better than the farmed version. The variety of grasses and browse.

The last chital photo was a little disappointing as the animals are blurred. They were standing in shadow and about to jump the fence into scrub and disappear. Shot (on disk) with a 300 mm ultrasonic image stabilised lens kneeling down without support.

This stag could have been shot by my friend if he wished. But later that morning (we finished the hunting at noon) we found a much larger one who made a clean get away.

BTW we also found another two smaller hard antlered stags and two or three in the group that we very nice but unfortunately in velvet.

The photos displayed here were originally 6.3 mega-pixels reduced down to about 100 to 120 k and then reduced to about 80% quality and compressed by 50% to get the size down to 20 to 70 k. Prior to modification they are so clear, crisp and colours so fine it is disappointing to reduce them.

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Forget about the photos. The deer in them are what excite me!