What to look for on a new permission?

co’den

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Apart from ascertaining the boundaries, access, suitable back stops and obvious signs of deer, what do you all look for when visiting a new permission?
 
Definitely prevailing wind so I make sure I am never downwind of my mate when he takes his 5.45am dump (every fecking time we go out)

"Ahhhh, I'm prairie dogging, it's coming. Did you bring any toilet paper?"

"Of course not you moron. I take a crap before I leave you idiot"

Honestly, he is like clockwork. Never seen anything like it. He couldn't hold someone's pint let alone a pony.
 
Definitely prevailing wind so I make sure I am never downwind of my mate when he takes his 5.45am dump (every fecking time we go out)

"Ahhhh, I'm prairie dogging, it's coming. Did you bring any toilet paper?"

"Of course not you moron. I take a crap before I leave you idiot"

Honestly, he is like clockwork. Never seen anything like it. He couldn't hold someone's pint let alone a pony.
Nature poo watching the sun rise😂
 
Evidence of who else is stalking there despite the landowner’s assertion there isn’t anyone.

There always is.
How do you manage that situation? I’m not sure I’d be comfortable with the chance that other guns are raking about.
 
Evidence of who else is stalking there despite the landowner’s assertion there isn’t anyone.

There always is.
Never a truer word spoken, happened to me last year, when I eventually found out who the other guy was he said 'the farmer's nephew told me you never go there' which was of course nonsense, as how would I have come across his truck at 0500 one morning.
I just wonder how he would have felt if the shoe and been on the other foot.
 
How do you manage that situation? I’m not sure I’d be comfortable with the chance that other guns are raking about.
Try to get their phone number and arrange a chat to sort out how to communicate who’s doing what.

But it’s seldom easy.

If you’re new to stalking (which it sounds like you might be), you’ll quickly discover that it’s enormously difficult to get all the information you need from all the people associated with a bit of land. There is a startling amount of skullduggery and half truth.
 
Try to get their phone number and arrange a chat to sort out how to communicate who’s doing what.

But it’s seldom easy.

If you’re new to stalking (which it sounds like you might be), you’ll quickly discover that it’s enormously difficult to get all the information you need from all the people associated with a bit of land. There is a startling amount of skullduggery and half truth.

Aye, I’m fairly new to all this. I haven’t done any stalking for over 20 years and the stalking I did (in my 20’s) was always with a keeper/ranger.

I’m waiting on my FAC but, in the mean time, I’ve got some permissions sorted, booked a DSC1 and a carcass and butchery course. I’m hoping to get up to my permissions over the next couple of weeks and start having a good luck at what’s what.
 
How do you manage that situation? I’m not sure I’d be comfortable with the chance that other guns are raking about.
The farmers that let stalking to folks often have kids that have friends and such want a shot and so on and so forth.
Family members etc etc
If you go shouting about it to them you’ll soon be permission less.
Build a rapport and be the one to take them out when they mention it.


And someone always has more cash than you and a farmer will always take the bigger offer.

So would you.
 
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