Recent content by Spear Chucker

But thanks to this thread, some ferret in HMRC now has the horn about taxing the black market in illicit venison sales that they will be convinced exists. 🤬

Pipe...midges don't like it up 'em. My grandfather always reckoned if you were being eaten by midges, you weren't moving fast enough. Mind you, he used to say that when we told him we were cold too.

I have fox reds. I usually give them a frozen deer foot to chew while I am having a stogie on the garden bench. The older one usually finishes first, eyes up No.2, slopes off down the garden and barks like mad at some imaginary intruder. No.2 comes roaring down to investigate, while No. 1 sneaks...

If we all start doing it, they will make it a requirement. Don't do it unless you really have to. There may be good reasons, such as antis on your boundaries, but otherwise the less they know, the better.

Any good house insurance public liability section already covers you. Limits vary. Personally I think good legal expenses cover that allows attack (appeals against rozzers, injunctions against antis erc) is critical. Fieldsports Channel membership far outweighs any of the Uncle Tom associations...

Why should we acquiesce? B****cks to that. That was the BASC plan all along. "Stick it up them, lie long and hard enough and they'll have to accept it". I am stuffed if I am accepting it. You nod off in your armchair if you want. I will be on the wind for ever. Why? because the key fact that...

Just not sure that science and fact are "his thing".

If only they would pack up. GCWT & CA too.

one of things I have bought recently is the following. https://monarchcountryproducts.co.uk/product/jagerschmid-v2-hunters-mate-deer-drag/ It is something I now always check I have remembered before I leave the house. Exceptional piece of kit, and hearing the blurb about making it lighter to...

Oh you love a scrap , so you do! ;)

I think that's called "paying in advance". No bad thing.

Watch the old boys. Always worth watching the old boys. They didn't get old by being silly. Like old stags.

Don't forget the A-hole remover and the clickety-clackety ratchety-winch thingy you need to scare off all of the other deer for 5 miles around. New boy looks like a one man band. As time goes on, he slims down. The field kit rapidly shrinks, the box of once-used and never-to-be-used-again...

Archaeology is always interesting. I walked into the shed on one occasion and thought "funny, there are an awful lot of flies in here". I thought no more of it until a few moths later when I decided to wear my Cecil B De Mille coat for a foray. I put it on and felt something in the left-hand...

AH! OK. So that is probably different. It makes perfect sense that he could have had NFU evidence in respect of badger culls - they were involved in its administration. I took it on face value in respect of deer and CL55 licenses. No, the NFU have not upset me -any more than they have the vast...