Red deer stag hunting on the Isle of Jura: October 2023 Availability
15th – 21st October – Prime time red deer stag hunting – £POA extremely rare availability
8 stag week
Accommodation for 8 guests in a private hunting lodge fully catered (breakfast, pack lunch and dinner)
Due to a cancellation, this prime time red deer stag hunting week has become available on the Isle of Jura. Hunting on this estate usually has a 2 year minimum wait-list, so this is a rare opportunity, not to be missed!
When hunting red deer stags you will be stalking over a prime Isle of Jura sporting estate. Jura is a hotspot for red deer – the word ‘Jura’ is a translation of the Norse word for ‘deer’. The Estate has over a thousand wild red deer and the island has over six thousand.
We have based this proposal on 2 hunters per day shooting a maximum of 8 stags over 5 – 6 days of hunting
Red deer stag hunting in general does require a reasonable degree of fitness and the hunting at this estate is classed as difficult.
You can normally expect to be out all day. Due to the difficulty of the hunting, hunters must be sufficiently fit to undertake the required physical exercise. Hunters must wear good quality walking boots and have warm waterproof clothing of a subdued colour.
Please note that it is customary to tip the stalker £65 + per stag shot.
Accommodation is in a traditional Scottish sporting lodge situated at the north end of the Isle of Jura. The house was originally built in the 1600’s and has been subsequently added to. It’s a traditional ten bedroomed hunting lodge, owned and lived in by four generations of the same family for the last hundred years.
The package is based on the provision of accommodation for 8 adults, fully catered with the services of a cook and housekeeper included.
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Scottish Pike Recipe
Scottish Pike Recipe – Baked stuffed pike
Here’s a fantastic recipe for baked stuffed pike. In our experience the cooking times work best with a fish of about 3-5lbs.
1. Clean and descale the fish, then remove the backbone but leave on the head and tail
2. Cook about one cup of wild rice, then set it to one side to cool down
3. Dice one large onion, 2 garlic cloves and one medium sized skinned cucumber
4. Salt the chopped cucumber and leave for about 15-20 minutes.
5. Fry off the onion, garlic and cucumber in a couple of knobs of butter – cook until translucent rather than brown
6. Roughly chop up 2 or 3 hard-boiled eggs, some capers, some olives, curly parsley, chives and fresh thyme
7. Mix the rice, fried onion mix and chopped ingredients, then add a couple of spoonful’s of crème fraiche and season with salt and plenty of pepper
8. Stuff the cavity of the cleaned pike with the savoury stuffing mix and stitch or tie the fish closed
9. Place the stuffed fish onto a lightly buttered baking dish and put into a preheated oven at 200ºC
10. After 5 minutes, turn the fish and put it back into the oven for another 5 minutes
11. Add half a cup of water and half a cup of white wine and turn the oven down to 175ºC
12. Cook for about 30 to 40 minutes, until the fish is firm, but not hard, to the touch
Ingredients:
• 3 qt Boiling salted water
• 2/3 c Rice
• 1 lg Cucumber, peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped
• 1/4 tsp. Salt
• 2 Hard-cooked eggs, coarsely chopped
• 2 tb Butter
• 1/2 c Onions, finely chopped
• 1/2 c Parsley, finely chopped
• 1/4 c Chives, finely chopped
• 1 tb Salt
• 1/8 tsp. White pepper
• 1 tb Heavy cream (to 3 tb)
• 8 tb Butter (a 1/4-lb stick)
• 6 tb Dry bread crumbs
• 3 lb Pike — cleaned and scaled *
• 1/2 c Boiling water
Country Sports and Beyond!
Walking sticks, knitting, fossils and foraging!
Although we are best known for providing fishing, hunting and golf in Scotland, it is the bespoke nature of our holidays which sets us apart. And what a diverse range of interests our clients have! In the past six months we have been asked to incorporate visits to fossil collections, the workshop of a walking stick maker, woollen mills, and kilt makers. We even arranged for one of our clients to be led on a foraging expedition for mushrooms. We love this sort of challenge, so please don’t hesitate to ask!
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