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Smellydog said:
I apologise to all offended.
At the time I felt (possibly wrongly) I was being told I or others were jeopardising his certs.
Nothing could be further than the truth!
I also have a short coming to being patient to folk being **** scared about them we pay our fecking taxes to so they can fecking live in luxury and generally fluk everything up.
My apologies, its the lead poisoning getting to me....
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Fair play mate on all accounts
 
Smellydog said:
Who suggested that?
Sounds like we know more than you and in which should you have a certificate at all?
Stick to clay pigeon if its all to much for you 👍🏻
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You did with the comment below.
Failure to comply with the regulations will leave you open to possible prosecution and loss of your firearms.
If you are out to shoot any species of bird outside of a designated open season, you need to be very specific about why you’re shooting and what you’re shooting at.

Smellydog said:
Just get them shot for petes sake 🤦
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Just saw #19…😎
 
Right here’s the BASC’s view of this.There are no loopholes and the only way forward to be legal is via the licence route of which I was aware of but having viewed the number of hoops to go through thought initially there may be an easier way forward-not so.Even to apply for a licence where the paperwork is horrendous having to quote field nos etc where you plan to operate the licence takes approx 30 days to process by which time the crop will be in the barn.The way forward so BASC says is apply now for 2025!!Despite some remarks posted I am not risking my certificates and will liaise with farmer and document the fields that he plans to rotate next year for my submission.Richard.
 
So basically anyone that shoots vermin in wales and or possibly the farmers will have to pre book thus creating lots of useless jobs for yet more empty suits and wasting tax payers money. Nice.
 
Smellydog said:
So basically anyone that shoots vermin in wales and or possibly the farmers will have to pre book thus creating lots of useless jobs for yet more empty suits and wasting tax payers money. Nice.
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Yes wood pigeons being the exception.There is an exception for carrion crows around lambing time to I think the end of august but specifically states not for crop protection.Is is an unbelievable situation foisted upon us by a minister who has stated she is fundamentally opposed to shooting for any reason.Thats what you get when Welsh Labour has been in power for 25 years although their recent nonsense with 20 mph legislation hopefully will loose them considerable support in next years assembly elections-live in hope.Richard.
 
So are they saying livestock foodstuffs only count when processed?

I would expect that kind of a reply from a shooting organisation.

What were you shooting over?
 
Smellydog said:
So basically anyone that shoots vermin in wales and or possibly the farmers will have to pre book thus creating lots of useless jobs for yet more empty suits and wasting tax payers money. Nice.
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Coming to a county near you now Labour have England in there control.
 

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richard griffith said:
Yes wood pigeons being the exception.There is an exception for carrion crows around lambing time to I think the end of august but specifically states not for crop protection.Is is an unbelievable situation foisted upon us by a minister who has stated she is fundamentally opposed to shooting for any reason.Thats what you get when Welsh Labour has been in power for 25 years although their recent nonsense with 20 mph legislation hopefully will loose them considerable support in next years assembly elections-live in hope.Richard.
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You can shoot jackdaws for crop protection legally , so whilst decoying these just shoot all the corvids , nobody will know 😁
 
Shoot them to preserve livestock foodstuffs and prevent the spread of disease
DEFRA (or some such agency) have actually asked some of our local farmers to cull more because they are worried about disease transmission

Thats a stupid response from BASC if that is actually it - they want you to book in to shoot corvids - I can just see NRW saying well how do you know you will have a problem then ?

@Conor O'Gorman
 
I think when someone attempts to sue NRW it will soon get reversed.
You CANNOT mix idylls, prejudice and minority tramping with reality .
 
jall55 said:
Shoot them to preserve livestock foodstuffs and prevent the spread of disease
DEFRA (or some such agency) have actually asked some of our local farmers to cull more because they are worried about disease transmission

Thats a stupid response from BASC if that is actually it - they want you to book in to shoot corvids - I can just see NRW saying well how do you know you will have a problem then ?

@Conor O'Gorman
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Wildlife licensing is devolved to the Welsh Government and its agencies in Wales to make laws on and administer. Similarly in Scotland and NI. Wildlife licensing in England is administered by Defra and Natural England.

BASC response is correct. In Wales you have to apply for individual licences for legal permission to carry out jackdaw and magpie lethal control measures.

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Conor O'Gorman said:
Wildlife licensing is devolved to the Welsh Government and its agencies in Wales to make laws on and administer. Similarly in Scotland and NI. Wildlife licensing in England is administered by Defra and Natural England.

BASC response is correct. In Wales you have to apply for individual licences for legal permission to carry out jackdaw and magpie Screenshot_20240710-210244_Samsung Internet.webpScreenshot_20240710-210244_Samsung Internet.webp
Why apply for an individual licence when jackdaws are on the general licence for crop protection
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Conor O'Gorman said:
Wildlife licensing is devolved to the Welsh Government and its agencies in Wales to make laws on and administer. Similarly in Scotland and NI. Wildlife licensing in England is administered by Defra and Natural England.

BASC response is correct. In Wales you have to apply for individual licences for legal permission to carry out jackdaw and magpie lethal control measures.

basc.org.uk

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@Nickb thanks, you are correct on jackdaw, I got that wrong, I meant rook instead of jackdaw.

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