BASC Wild Boar Course

[Mike L]

You can never have too many badges!!! ( Unless they say Jim and mention fixing things)

 

[Lateral]

Absolutely no idea.

I just do this stuff for the joy of learning, a couple of days out of my wife’s hair, a bit of “trigger” time and perhaps the craic.

Learning is good, but this smacks of going to Uni, and getting a degree in Flamenco dancing !

 

[Stalker62]

Learning is good, but this smacks of going to Uni, and getting a degree in Flamenco dancing !

So not coming to my graduation ceremony then?

 

[finnbear270]

L1 shooting test with humane dispatch added.

 

[Stalker62]

L1 shooting test with humane dispatch added.

Perhaps I should have printed off your Avatar?

 

[cookingfat]

why is everyone so anti this course?

Yes if you have done DSC/PDS 1 & 2 or have experience of many years than the course is very similar.

I did the course with the NGO when it first came out, did I learn anything from it? Yes I knew very little about the ecology of wild boar so that was some good learning, as others have said there is a dispatching shot now taken on the shooting test which at the time was not in the DSC 1 test.

 

[Bo Diddley]

Sounds like 44 rounds too many.....

I hope to meet Franz Albrecht one day, he is a very good friend of the lady who owns the estate we do a bit of keepering on, fingers crossed he gets an invite to shoot one day... I'm hoping for a few tips on running boar

 

[Lateral]

So not coming to my graduation ceremony then?

Let me know where, and when it is ?

 

[jcampbellsmith]

why is everyone so anti this course?

Yes if you have done DSC/PDS 1 & 2 or have experience of many years than the course is very similar.

I did the course with the NGO when it first came out, did I learn anything from it? Yes I knew very little about the ecology of wild boar so that was some good learning, as others have said there is a dispatching shot now taken on the shooting test which at the time was not in the DSC 1 test.

The course material is good, but spinning out the course into 2 days, when it could easily be done in 1 day is daft. The public sector folk on the course that I attended were getting a 2 day break at the taxpayer's expense.
Regards
JCS

 

[willie_gunn]

I hope to meet Franz Albrecht one day, he is a very good friend of the lady who owns the estate we do a bit of keepering on, fingers crossed he gets an invite to shoot one day... I'm hoping for a few tips on running boar

What strikes me about everything I've read about Franz Albrecht is that, apart from being a phenomenal shot, he comes across as being equally strong on both the conservation and ethical aspects of shooting.

It seems he was accompanying his father on driven boar shoots when he was just 5 or 6, so you may have left things a bit late already

 

[Lateral]

why is everyone so anti this course?

Yes if you have done DSC/PDS 1 & 2 or have experience of many years than the course is very similar.

I did the course with the NGO when it first came out, did I learn anything from it? Yes I knew very little about the ecology of wild boar so that was some good learning, as others have said there is a dispatching shot now taken on the shooting test which at the time was not in the DSC 1 test.

The reason I'm not a fan, is because in my opinion, unlike the DSC 1 & 2, which can directly help, and improve access to reasonably priced deer shooting, the boar course has been created purely to make money. Yes people will add to their knowledge, but with little chance of many being able to use, or get any benefit from it.

It commonly costs £150.00 to sit out for a boar, and then an extra shot fee of circa £150.00, £250.00, & £350.00 depending on the weight of the animal. This doesn't include the meat. There are people whose charges are far more reasonable, if you can find them, and confirm they actually have boar coming onto their land !

Here are the "official" Forestry England figures for the boar cull in the Forest of Dean FOD Boar Cull which some locals say is much under reported, and the population is being decimated.

 

[artschool]

I did the course partly because I live near the mill and mainly because everyday is a school day and it was interesting.

 

[VSS]

A wild boar module should simply have been incorporated into the DSC1 course, imo.

 

[willie_gunn]

A wild boar module should simply have been incorporated into the DSC1 course, imo.

Ah, but then you'd have people arguing that DSC2 should only be awared to those who have shot all 6 UK deer species and wild boar too!

 

[artschool]

Ah, but then you'd have people arguing that DSC2 should only be awared to those who have shot all 6 UK deer species and wild boar too!

if you manage to do it within 7 days you get a MacDSC badge.

 

[timbrayford]

I understand with the BASC Course, there is some form of shooting test included.

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With the one notable exception, any time behind the trigger can only be a good thing...

There is a shooting test and assessment day with the NGO, but you can do all the studying beforehand

 

[timbrayford]

A wild boar module should simply have been incorporated into the DSC1 course, imo.

DSC1 is a great entry level course, but quite rightly the trained hunter qualification has been moved to DSC2 where you get to demonstrate in practice the theory stuff learned in DSC1

 

[VSS]

DSC1 is a great entry level course, but quite rightly the trained hunter qualification has been moved to DSC2 where you get to demonstrate in practice the theory stuff learned in DSC1

Personality, I think that was a bad move.

 

[VSS]

Personality, I think that was a bad move.

Personally, not personality

 

[Kalahari]

Personally, not personality

Pedant!!!!

David.

PS I am aware that you weren't really being pedantic.