Hunting Scotland's Rugged Highlands
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live in the field from an ancient hunting lodge in Scotland's far northern Highlands, this episode brings listeners a look into the grand tradition of stalking red stags in The Olde Countrie--as well as current opportunities.
If you're a serious elk hunter, you've likely dreamed of hunting red stags. New Zealand, Argentina, and the European continent all have allure, but the most exciting and historic of all red stag hunting is in Scotland, where Victorian nobles built castle-like stone lodges and climbed the gnarly highland mountains in pursuit of old stags.
Spartan's Rob Gearing, host Joseph von Benedikt, and estate manager Sam Thompson sit down by the crackling fireplace and talk through modern-day stag stalking in the highlands. What to expect, appropriate rifles and cartridges, conservation and estate management, and actual shooting and stalking scenarios. Plus, we bring you the first word of a terrific new flexible bipod—the Spartan Springbuck. It's arguably the most versitile all-purpose shooting rest for lowland and mild backcountry hunting made.
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| 0:00.0 | In America, if you've hunted elk, you want to hunt them again. |
| 0:02.7 | And if you haven't, you just want to hunt them so badly, your teethache. |
| 0:06.3 | And I'm sitting here across the pond, as some would say, |
| 0:11.7 | in the highlands of Scotland with my lovely bride in the room and a |
| 0:17.3 | bunch of other fellow hunters and a couple of passionate, how shall I put it, |
| 0:22.1 | leaders among fellow hunters. I've got my good friend Rob Gearing. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back to the show here my friend. |
| 0:29.0 | Delighted to be here again Joseph and delighted have you on this side of the pond. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, thank you. It's a real privilege. I've never been here. I've been married to |
| 0:36.6 | general almost 20 years and I've never been to Great Britain before. So this is a real treat and privilege for me to join here on |
| 0:45.8 | this wonderful, beautiful Highland Estate. And then we've got Sam. |
| 0:50.5 | Hello. Hello Sam. Sam is the manager of this estate. |
| 0:55.8 | It's gigantic, it's historic, it's spectacular in the Highlands of Scotland. |
| 1:01.3 | Way up north, we're not going to tell the name of the state on this podcast, but we will wrap up with contact information if you want to get a hold of Sam and talk about |
| 1:14.0 | opportunities in this type of hunting. |
| 1:16.0 | So folks, thanks for tuning in tonight, for joining us. |
| 1:20.0 | This is of course the Back Country Hunting podcast. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Joseph von Benedict, your host. this is of course the backcountry hunting podcast |
| 1:23.0 | and I'm Joseph von Benedict your host and we're going to talk about some of the |
| 1:26.8 | similarities between hunting elk in America and hunting red stag in the highlands of Scotland which I don't know just from the |
| 1:36.8 | outside looking in I feel like that might be the same sort of bucket list or |
| 1:40.9 | type of hunt that Europeans would dream about or would epitomize, as you said, |
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