Gamekeeping

[demicav]

Originally Posted by Oscar2006

Come on folks, there are enough sites for rifles gun clubs and shooting without turning this into one as well.

It's the love of British Wildlife - "alive" that most of us are interested in, not the tools used to knock it off for the plate.

I have to agree with you there.

[little-lloyd]

Originally Posted by BritainsTarzan

What rifle do you have little lloyd? have you got a link to a picture or anything?

I use a mates 2.2 rimfire occasionly but dont have my own yet!

Oscar2006 I take a huge intrest in what i do for widlife conservationI manage around 50 odd acres for wildlife with a further 50 other acres waiting for something to be done to it. I shoot/trap a few squiirells/magpies etc Plant new trees for both my pheasants and the wild birds. In the gone nesting time of year i knew where 3 blue tit nest sites where and made them safe from predators and now they have happily fledged

We are just contructing a hide for both shooting and wildlife obervations. which progress i will post on the sight soon So keep your eyes open chaps

I am in this forum like most of us here I LOVE WIDLIFE AND HELPING IT So lets all get on and respect each others opionions

[Deer Stalker]

Originally Posted by BritainsTarzan

What rifle do you have little lloyd? have you got a link to a picture or anything?

hmmm... I think discretion has to be used when talking about what Firearms you actually have on a public forum.

[Oscar2006]

Originally Posted by little-lloyd

I use a mates 2.2 rimfire occasionly but dont have my own yet!

Oscar2006 I take a huge intrest in what i do for widlife conservationI manage around 50 odd acres for wildlife with a further 50 other acres waiting for something to be done to it.

Congratulations - you'll soon be up for an MBE

Originally Posted by little-lloyd

I shoot/trap a few squiirells/magpies etc Plant new trees for both my pheasants and the wild birds. In the gone nesting time of year i knew where 3 blue tit nest sites where and made them safe from predators and now they have happily fledged

We are just contructing a hide for both shooting and wildlife obervations. which progress i will post on the sight soon So keep your eyes open chaps

I am in this forum like most of us here I LOVE WIDLIFE AND HELPING IT So lets all get on and respect each others opionions

Well if this isn't a complete contradiction of the 3rd statement you made, I don't know what is....."I shoot/trap a few squirrels/magpies" .....
You love some of our wildlife not all of it, and wildlife doesn't want or need your interfering help, so take off your wildlife champion halo and put back on your hunters hat, it suits you better

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Oscar2006

Well if this isn't a complete contradiction of the 3rd statement you made, I don't know what is....."I shoot/trap a few squirrels/magpies" .....
You love some of our wildlife not all of it, and wildlife doesn't want or need your interfering help, so take off your wildlife champion halo and put back on your hunters hat, it suits you better

I dont know about that oscar - I've worked in conservation my whole career and have spent much of it trapping/ shooting squirels, magpies, mink etc etc

the woodlands with regen browsed out by deer, the red squirels suffering from parropox , the rare ground nesting birds heavilly predated by corvids, the watervoles and kingfishers predated by mink etc etc do need our help , although it is true that this would not have been necessary had man not interfered by releasing alien species and taking out top predators in the first place.

I have never hunted anything for pleasure or sport , and only occasionally when i was very poor for food - 90% plus of my hunting has been for conservation reasons only.

However that said I do agree with the earlier comment that we have had enough of the firearms / species control discussions for the moment so lets get back to the living wildlife. (tho if anyone wants species control advice, for the purposes of conservation, i am happy to answer questions by pm.)

[little-lloyd]

I was watching birding with Bill oddbod last night and he was with this conservationist in a strip of maize cover planted for the benefit of Red legged partridge. This one stip of maize had atracted a stone curlew to nest there and various other birds. He had expalined to Bill Odbod that without Controlling foxes and Corivds those birds would not be there.

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by little-lloyd

Dont think it matters about the animal you still need to check with the landowner, but most commons are very popular with walkers etc so shooting may not be ok.

The law is that no animals or plants can be taken without the landowner's permission. In the case of private land, this will probably be retained by the landowner; in the case of public land (commons) then all killing will probably be against the bye-laws unless part of a structured pest-control programme. If you're tempted, don't ....

[little-lloyd]

If the council give you permission to lets say ferret a common then your leagaly allowed to ferret it no matter what no passer by can say same with normal permission on farmland where a public footpath is!

[Oscar2006]

[quote=little-lloyd;141215]If the council give you permission to lets say ferret a common then your leagaly allowed to ferret it no matter what no passer by can say same with normal permission on farmland where a public footpath is!

IStunning language! it's time you were shown the door!

[Oscar2006]

Thanks Graham.