Hi guys,
if you specifically request boar on your FAC and show you access to them either on your land or as a paying guest with permission to shoot them, it should be granted without undue delay. The home office guidance is
not law.
The police in any area may ask you for details but a quick covering letter from the holder of the shooting rights/land owner sorts it.
Home Office Guidance section 13.25 - Other Animals: Authority may be requested to shoot animals which fall outside the scope of usual types of game or vermin, for example feral goat or wild boar. The type of rifle authorised
should be appropriate to the quarry species, for example .270, .30-06 or.308 or greater for wild boar. Hunting potentially dangerous animals with larger calibre rifles requires particular skill, and applicants
should generally have experience of firearms. Applicants
should put forward specific named land and a request or authority from the owner/occupier to shoot the species concerned[/b]
D&G openly class their boar as vermin, this is simply because the home office guidance is only guidance and not law. Nothing in the HO guidance is a
must so from a legal point of view you can't be convicted if you were a first time out with a mate shooter and shot a boar say with a 243 without boar on his ticket because a law has not been broken and boar have no legal status.
Things will change when boar are given legal status but obviously at the mo keep on the good site of your FLO and do what they ask to avoid hassle even if they're a pain.