David Cameron has a secret love of stag shooting it emerged last night, and is considered an expert at one of the most controversial blood sports. The Conservative leader is said by those who have hunted with him to be a keen shot who can fell two deer at once.
Mr Cameron has spent 20 years deer stalking and was introduced to the sport as a young man. He takes family holidays on the Scottish estate owned by Viscount Astor - his wife's stepfather - on the island of Jura, in the inner Hebrides, which has 6,000 deer.
Bruce Anderson, the political columnist who stalks with Mr Cameron, said that the Tory leader had a knack for shooting.
"David has been stalking deer for 20 years or more. He is very good with a gun. I have seen him shoot a stag. He has the 'right-left' knack whereby you shoot two deer in one go before they run off. Only the best stalkers can do that," he said.
When stalkers shoot their first stag, the marksman is "blooded" with the animals' blood smeared on their face.
But let us not dwell on the social implications. Just because the wife's daddy owns half a Scottish island does not make him a bad person. Nor does the fact that he can shoot two deer at once.
Eh, well, maybe it does...
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