There are some brilliant landowners out there!

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wanderer

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• Jan 18, 2026

• #1

Whats your experiences of the farmers and landowners were you shoot or stalk!

Just had one of my permission landowners phone tonight, asking if i was ok for another shoot beating day. Nothing unusual with that perhaps.
I took him a couple of haunches and a saddle from a Roe Doe the other day.
After asking about the days beating he then said, oh I've bought you some large freezer bags from the supermarket.

Picking the grandkids up from our village school a few weeks back one of the parents waiting, a farmers wife, out of the blue asked me if i could fly my Harris hawk on their land. Wow!

Enlighten us of your own Brilliant Landowners!

 

Klenchblaize

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• Jan 18, 2026

• #2

I certainly cannot grumble! Those I know have frankly allowed me to indulge in and enjoy a lifestyle I oft' thought would never be within my grasp without moving to the US or NZ.

I also cannot thank enough a number of very kind and accommodating former employees of what was Forestry Commission Scotland.

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Jh1986

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• Jan 18, 2026

• #3

Mine came back home, to get in his tractor and spend his time towing some **** out of his waterlogged field.

That's the last time I drive down to extract deer.

The man's a saint

 

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wanderer

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• Jan 18, 2026

• #4

Jh1986 said:

Mine came back home, to get in his tractor and spend his time towing some **** out of his waterlogged field.

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Over 20 years ago the same farmer i mentioned came and rescued me stuck in snow down a farm track in my 2 wheel drive astra after "friday pigeons".

 

VSS

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• Jan 18, 2026

• #5

wanderer said:

Enlighten us of your own Brilliant Landowners!

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I am my own Brilliant Landowner

(Although I confess there's times I've been tempted to kick myself off )

 

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Mike1979

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• Jan 19, 2026

• #6

I've a real mix but mostly good as gold....apart from forgetting to tell me key stuff....like "we have cut the maize so crack on with the crows"...then I drive past and they are mid way through ploughing

 

75

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• Jan 19, 2026

• #7

I've got a spot where the farmer is happy I bring anything back to the yard to gralloch so the guts can go in the dead bin (lots of public access). While I'm gralloching he always brings me a coffee and bacon sarnie (and he always remembers the tomato sauce)!!

 

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Midlandstalker2024

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• Jan 19, 2026

• #8

Most of them very decent and obliging, know where the keys or tractors or teleporters are kept if I’m ever in bother.

Have one or two that ring as soon as they see a single deer ring me to get them shot as if they’re over run.

 

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jall55

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• Jan 19, 2026

• #9

75 said:

I've got a spot where the farmer is happy I bring anything back to the yard to gralloch so the guts can go in the dead bin (lots of public access). While I'm gralloching he always brings me a coffee and bacon sarnie (and he always remembers the tomato sauce)!!

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Could drop you some off !!!! hahahah

 

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Chris Richardson

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• Jan 19, 2026

• #10

I’ve got some great landowners , really nice folk even one who owns one of the estates stops when he sees me and shoots the breeze with me , had a couple of bad ones in the past but happily I packed in there very happy with my farmers / landowners now

 

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wanderer

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• Jan 19, 2026

• #11

A few years back, one of the farmers stopped his truck as he was passing me on the road walking the dog and said he had a pack of beer for me as a thank you for shooting the rabbits.
Its normally the other way around with the shooter giving the farmer a gift as a thank you.

 

wytonpjs

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• Jan 19, 2026

• #12

I have a 90-something widower cattle farmer as one of my permission owners. Ever helpful and interested, I have to be quite forceful in refusing her kind offers to help with the humungous fallow that transit through her ground. Livers, kidneys and hearts are spirited away immediately as treasured spoils. I constantly take my hat off to her

 

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charlie222

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• Jan 19, 2026

• #13

I rocked up at one permission before Christmas with a bottle of malt, before I could get out the van, farmer was heading for me with a bottle of similar . He's not a shooter, but every now and then we'll have a drive about in the landrover after foxes. I pretty much have to wrestle the thermal off him, he loves it.

 

Shootgun

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• Jan 20, 2026

• #14

When it comes to landowners i must be one of the luckiest man alive...
The owners of two big estates i'm looking after are paying all my expenses, they bought me equipment during the years (thermal spotter and quad bike just to name a few) they paid for my Blaser .22LR conversion kit and i'm constantly being gifted expensive bottles of wine.
I never asked a penny i might add, but they are not farmers, they are wealthy business men and they said to me it is not fair to provide a service for them at my own expense.

 

Woodsy

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• Jan 20, 2026

• #15

Living on Dartmoor, there’s some real characters among the landowners around me. Many have become good friends over the years, (I recently became Godfather to one of the farmer’s grandchildren). This lovely old boy gladly came to my rescue when I had three deer to deal with but couldn’t drive in to extract due to the ground being too soft…

 

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Mike1979

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• Jan 20, 2026

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Woodsy said:

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Living on Dartmoor, there’s some real characters among the landowners around me. Many have become good friends over the years, (I recently became Godfather to one of the farmer’s grandchildren). This lovely old boy gladly came to my rescue when I had three deer to deal with but couldn’t drive in to extract due to the ground being too soft…

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Awesome

I had to extract a fallow buck on one piece of ground but the quad wouldnt start so farmer brought the telehandler ...field was very wet so he helped drag the buck 300 yards...then made it clear that the next time I could drag it myself

 

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ABL

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• Jan 20, 2026

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Shootgun said:

When it comes to landowners i must be one of the luckiest man alive...
The owners of two big estates i'm looking after are paying all my expenses, they bought me equipment during the years (thermal spotter and quad bike just to name a few) they paid for my Blaser .22LR conversion kit and i'm constantly being gifted expensive bottles of wine.
I never asked a penny i might add, but they are not farmers, they are wealthy business men and they said to me it is not fair to provide a service for them at my own expense.

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Blimey - we would all like a bit of that I think!

 

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wanderer

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• Jan 20, 2026

• #18

Mike1979 said:

I had to extract a fallow buck on one piece of ground but the quad wouldnt start so farmer brought the telehandler

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A few years ago i stalked up to a group of Roe which were sat in the Lee of a hedge and effectively below me. It was a long wait in the prone position but eventually they started to stand, one by one. It was a case of just one more and i finished up with 3 down. I phoned the landowner and i was very grateful he sent one of his men on a quad bike to rescue me and the deer.

 

maxtich

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• Jan 20, 2026

• #19

Mine always pulls out my LC when it’s got stuck..and also comes over and gives me a jump start on the rare occasions when the battery dies!

 

Mungo

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• Jan 20, 2026

• #20

I have one small bit of ground where as soon as the lady of the Hoose hears a shot, she dispatches her teenage son to extract. I also get a text message saying ‘tea or beer?’.