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The estate had income of between £830,000 and £840,000 last year, with a range of interests from residential, holiday and crofting lets to renewable energy, telecoms and deerstalking.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2021

By 2013, MacDonell and his team had culled 8,000 deer at Glenfeshie, and his local opponents, among them a neighbouring deerstalking enterprise, had camped on the moral high ground.

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2020

As a guest of Queen Victoria, Landseer went deerstalking with a gillie from Balmoral.

From Time Magazine Archive

One day, while deerstalking, just as a magnificent shot came his way, the gillies were astonished to have the painter thrust the gun into their hands, and hastily take out his sketch-book.

From Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

Youth though I was, I was an old hunter, and had some knowledge of “woodcraft,” gathered in deerstalking, and in the pursuit of other game, among my native hills.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne