Once the castle's deer park was established, intensively farmed fallow deer became common on the lands, although wild boar, foxes and hare were also hunted.
Some small craft which the pirates used in other cruises, were captured by the barges it was expected the pirates would be hunted from their lurking places.
They possessed binocular vision which was restricted to a region only 20 wide, which is understandable, seeing as they hunted mostly large and slow prey.