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Chris Richardson said:
So if someone didn’t enjoy the course they went intending not to enjoy it ?? Wow that’s pretty arrogant to assume as much , but then seeing as you make a living at it I get why you’re defending it 🤷🏼
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That’s his opinion based on experience of running the course….. yours may of course vary. 👍
 
Chris Richardson said:
No that’s his opinion on people’s attitudes and the mindset they’ve turned up with which nobody can assume
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Actually, discovering and understanding your Students and their motivation, attitude and mindset is one of the key skills of a successful Instructor. No arrogance or assumption involved.

I don’t for one second expect to change your opinion on anything to do with training, you clearly feel very strongly about it, so we’ll simply agree to disagree and respect each other’s experiences.
 
Deerkeeper2 said:
Actually, discovering and understanding your Students and their motivation, attitude and mindset is one of the key skills of a successful Instructor. No arrogance or assumption involved.

I don’t for one second expect to change your opinion on anything to do with training, you clearly feel very strongly about it, so we’ll simply agree to disagree and respect each other’s experiences.
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Fair enough but I still believe it’s a tad far fetched to think if someone didn’t learn much from a course or enjoy it they came with the wrong attitude, I’ve done countless courses in my career some were good some were bad but I always turn up with an open mind
 
I'm finding this discussion quite amusing. Maybe because I am old enough to have seen where it all started.
There is a Club that once was an interesting organisation to be in. No matter how much experience you had you started off as a trainee and stalked with an upgraded A member the grades being ABCand D. This club had a rigorous training scheme and you probably took five years moving up to B grade where you were allowed to stalk on foot. This all involved talks, range training and real stalking.
One day (from memory circa 1975 ish) a group of BDS folk were interested in training and were invited down to Thetford forest to see what went on. Talk about Revelation, very shortly afterwards came the BDS "Woodland Stalkers certificate" and so the present situation arose. As an A stalker in the afore mentioned club I did this new cert for a laugh meeting people who had probably only ever shot a few deer (although I did the safety bit with a well experienced chap I had known for years). It was a little enlightening, but bearing in mind how many deer I had accounted for before I joined that club or took the BDS thingy, it was all just of little use. I did however do my bit by becoming an AW (packing in when paying for the priviledge was mooted) but eventually I only took out keepers or military vets I knew for level 2.
So there it is my friends experience always trumps paper in a practical world.
 
Norfolk Deer Search said:
Have you actually seen 100 fallow on a field?

I’ve seen over 100 red on a field if I have one shot, maybe two if you’re lucky and then they **** off for three months that’s what happens when you get 100 red on the field!

The rest of its bull****

And if you’ve got or have applied for a night license on a wing and a prayer, because that will get you to pull the trigger more, you’ve gone greatly down in my expectations, bearing in mind you live in North Wales and you’re stalking in Devon
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Regarding the night licence I don’t think it will be that popular as it’s not for everyone.
Uptake will be limited that’s my thoughts on it anyway.
 
rutland said:
I personally have dsc1 and 2. Deep down whoever you want to look at it’s all about money. Some are charities some are not but if you look at the salary of some of the jobs involved in all sides it’s way more than I earn A lot of people have a decent draw out of some of these organisations
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Surely not ??? I thight it was all about best practice 😔
 
I did dsc1 because I thought if I didn’t do it I’d be left behind, with landowners or their insurance insisting on it (I got that wrong) I’d had my FAC a good few years already and accounted for a deer or 2, others I knew said it would be making a rod for our own back and next thing people would need it to get a deer calibre rifle even if they’d been shooting years, I didn’t think so at the time.
I duly turned up at the lvl 1 course and 2 members of the class were the firearms licensing dept from my constabulary. The writing was on the wall.
I’ve no problem with there being the dsc, the pdq or whatever you want to name it, a bit of learning is good and we all have to start somewhere.
 
Dickie said:
I did dsc1 because I thought if I didn’t do it I’d be left behind, with landowners or their insurance insisting on it (I got that wrong) I’d had my FAC a good few years already and accounted for a deer or 2, others I knew said it would be making a rod for our own back and next thing people would need it to get a deer calibre rifle even if they’d been shooting years, I didn’t think so at the time.
I duly turned up at the lvl 1 course and 2 members of the class were the firearms licensing dept from my constabulary. The writing was on the wall.
I’ve no problem with there being the dsc, the pdq or whatever you want to name it, a bit of learning is good and we all have to start somewhere.
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Indeed a rod for our own backs , my experience is similar in that landowners don’t know or care what a dsc is just if you can do the job
 
Sabian223 said:
Looks like PJ has taken the youtube video and the posts down
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Shows me money talks as he as a lot of rich clients. There are a lot of folk's on this site with a lot more stalking under there belts than he does.
So should they start there own courses and training.
 
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