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Do you know if the book has any comment on whether it is reasonable to believe that the authority responsible for the highway would give permission for shooting a deer on the highway without a representative or the Police present? Also any comment on the matter of shooting within 50 feet of...

How old are these?

I don't buy a lot but I do try to be sure they're made in Britain. It takes a fair bit of time to find out where things are made. And I'm happy to pay the price for it. If there's not a British option I try to make sure that I get the least amount of Chinese manufacture. Not that I think the...

Just tagging on the end of this thread - seemed as good a place as any. https://www.itv.com/watch/news/catch-up-watch-the-latest-edition-of-itv-news-meridian-west-from-thursday-30th-april/7m2b3qp Skip to 0:04:49 for a section on road deer collisions, along with a celebrity feature at 0:06:45...

Fair enough. (The initial reading seemed like it was preferable for the deer to have survived long enough to be put down.)

Regretfully?

🥱 Copy and paste 400 posts from previous threads.

I'll add my name to the list of people who are both honest and who also do not enjoy the killing in itself. I kill for population management, food, pest control or welfare. Deer culling is primarily under population management (secondarily food) and I get pleasure out of making the right...

What was the Guide's thinking/ your findings on inspection regarding the neckshot? Had the bullet whacked the spine or was it marginally low? An alternative for your fridge, given the racks on each side, is a 12mm stainless bar -

Oh come off it NDS. You’re forever telling us about the length of your teeth and from your past posts, you have the problem of and are well aware of the issue of sanctuaries. You also are aware of the impact caused by large numbers/ high densities of fallow (or other herding spp) that are...

Ah, lol, the intel was that the fallow here have just to come out onto pasture after weeks and weeks of holding in the neighbouring woods. I walked up, crept round the bushes, shot one doe and the remaining 100 instantly buggered off to the safety far boundary of that field. (42kg, fat & and I...

2 'T's (lol)

Has NDS just been unleashed from a holiday or a ban or something? My experience of night shooting is that shot placement is not an issue - the NV is more difficult for angle of quarter but you have more time. The issue is not the shooting of the deer but, imho, the safety of the backstop. As...

F2F near Salisbury

I've been shooting fallow does under night licence for the last 3 seasons, on foot with sticks, and in my view, the job is very different from foxing or badger cull. The backstop requirement is massively different and, in a lot of situations on my land, is not easy to determine. The deer are...