I had a long and unsuccessful face to face with the Firearms Dept in North Wales when trying to add boar to my .270 in order to shoot on j.d.m.'s ground.
I was at first told that there were no boar in the UK, then that boar didn't need to be controlled, then that Home Office guidance didn't mention boar and even a written invitation from jdm didn't help. I was told the the Chief Constable didn't want to be a "ground breaker" on the issue of issuing boar variations for use outside the constabulary.
I made the guy go and get the Home Office guidance and proved my point but still couldn't get it unless I got a letter from jdm's landowner and the local police confirming the stalk. Unsurprisingly jdm didn't want to hassle his landowner and in the end I gave up and used jdm's 30-06 and .457 Heym which did the job OK.
There has a been a change of personnel in the local Firearms Dept and things are apparently better now.
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