The deer had been illegally shot at by poachers with a high-powered crossbow.
By Barnaby Dracup
Friday, 27 March 2009
Police recently discovered an injured red deer on Sir Tim Rice’s Dundonnell estate, in Wester Ross, after it had been shot at by poachers with a high-powered crossbow.
Alasdair Macdonald, the gamekeeper who tracked down the deer and despatched it, said: “The hind had a calf with it, but we couldn’t get it, so the calf will probably die too.”
“You can’t kill a beast quickly and cleanly with a crossbow. The poachers would probably use lurchers to follow the injured beast and then shoot it with another bolt.”
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