Why cant farmers be honest

[David Barker]

We could of course flip this thread round and ask ‘why can’t stalkers be honest’. Just as many dishonest stalkers out there…

You are correct i know SNH (NATURE.SCOT) Tried to get a handle on were people shot etc and how much ground they had. When the question was reversed the deer stalking mob that run the wild life sector went totally quiet. Sharing ground is not the answer as it can cause major problems of blame. The answer is to take ground you can manage .

 

[geoshot]

Turned up on a decent sized farm where a friend and I had been lead to believe that we had secured "exclusive" rights to the deer stalking.
We were setting up when a pick up with four blokes on board pulled up, the driver asked us what we were doing setting up on "his land"
We asked him the same
We all quickly realised that we were getting our eyes wiped - especially when the third vehicle joined the party
That was ten of us demanding our money back from one very p1ssed off farmer
How he thought we'd never find out was beyond me - it's a decent sized farm but it's no ranch, we were bound to bump into each other eventually

 

[JockStalk]

Never met a bad farmer yet.


Every single one has been …,,.,.,



…..out standing in their field.

 

[NullMac]

I had exclusive rights to a prime bit of fox ground not far from me for a number of years and shot a lot of foxes on it.
One night I was walking back to the yard along the hedgerow and heard the unmistakeable sound of a pretty poor rabbit call just a field ahead of me. This was pre-NV/thermal so I quickly lit the place up and shouted as loud as I could in a less than friendly greeting. Two eejits were sitting in the field corner with a .17hmr and looking straight across to my route back.
During the short and sharp exchange it transpired that they had asked the elderly lady farmer who told them I was already out and would be down the lane but they went ahead anyhow and set up looking straight down to said lane.
Suffice to say they left a lot wiser than they arrived and have not been back since but they are still active as word has got round in this small community that they recently shot a sheep!
They stalk among us but what can you do?

Report them to the Police as unsafe to hold a FAC and avoid getting yourself or anyone else shot? Just a thought...

 

[User00040]

Report them to the Police as unsafe to hold a FAC and avoid getting yourself or anyone else shot? Just a thought...

Good way to find your pickup flipped into a ditch... most farmers own Manitou's, diggers, cement mixers...

 

[Drum123]

Report them to the Police as unsafe to hold a FAC and avoid getting yourself or anyone else shot? Just a thought...

A police matter? Really?

 

[Turnips]

Good way to find your pickup flipped into a ditch... most farmers own Manitou's, diggers, cement mixers...

And shotguns, just to complete the package!

 

[WalkedUp]

You have to assume someone else is on the land, trespassing or not, looking for their lost cat crawling through the hedges.

 

[Andy seatrout]

No, you're wrong there. The Ground Game Act gives the tenant an inalienable right. It cannot be overridden by the terms of a tenancy agreement

Do you know what, I was wrong, you learn something new every day