In August 2013, three girls left the cosy comfort of home to train as ghillies on a Highland Estate, and swapped their mascara and hair-straighteners for tick-removers and guns.
Caledonia TV filmed in Ardnamurchan for three weeks in August, where Megan, Mairi Alice and Chrissie were apprenticed to Head Keeper, Niall Rowantree and fellow keeper Stevie Grant. The girls were up before dawn many mornings, and were often not finished until nearly midnight. The deer don't always want to play ball!
Once the stag is killed, that's when the ghillies' job really begins. They have to gralloch (or disembowel) it, load it onto the ATV and take it back to the larder, where the carcass is processed and left to hang.
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