Matt, thank you for your kind comments and sound advice. I will try next season pillow cases/canvas bags for roe deer and hopefully red deer also if I manage to be available over the rutting season period; I will however have to buy a new washing machine as can't see my wife leaving me using hers for washing blood-stained hunting equipment

. With regards to mountain hunting, I will stick to plastic bags only for a matter of weight as I am always chasing grams to get hold off when packing for mountain hunting! The Defender is not a vintage one but a 2015 issue; I ordered it in late 2014 when Land Rover informed that they would stop production (which they have since resumed) in the following year.

Nitrox and Daryl, thank you for your kind comments also. Hunting territories, as pastures do, look always greener on the other side of the fence

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Louis