jimbo1984
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Lol that would be without the white van brigade lolIs that with or without help from Ifor Williams.
Lol that would be without the white van brigade lolIs that with or without help from Ifor Williams.
not anywhere in the miles and 41/2hrs i put in last night not a skerrick! only bunnies and the ever present badgers, wouldnt turn my nose up at couple atb doug,The munties will end up taking over just like the Muslims and the pikes they are hear to stay so it best to accept it and use them to our advantage Cheshire will be alive with them soon they are taking over
I would say that muntjact are territorial ,and do seem to have a place that thry retrun to ,although they range , where range is concerned you will offten see the same munt jac taking the route at the same time of day and not to far from where it lives i would say with inn 20-30 acrea's ,I shoot a block of wood witch is 8-10 acreas the wood is in the middle of the vilage there is just muntjac in the wood ,all the surrounding house's have problem's with muntjac in there gardens .i think to date i have shoot 18 heavily pregant doe's and just 3 big bucks ,its was like a muntjac breeding center with the young being pushed out to make way for the new kids ,there had been alot of muntjac being run over and fights with dogs were not uncommon ,so my gusse is that if left alone muntjac will quickly form a connolly witch will happily exisit and populate a area with the dominant bucks and doe's controlling who stays and who gose carsting out the young every 5-6months, they have to go find a home of there own getting pushed from piller to post by others that already live in the areaTo be honest I don't really stalk muntys anymore finding it much more productive to wait it out in the highseats for muntjac than stalking on foot accouted for ten so far this year from my little patch , does anybody have the figures for how many kms muntjac spread thier range each year ?
you are right there are more bucks shot as a rule of thumb , the wood i refer to had never been shot untill i arrived .i think think out off the 64 i shot from aprill to april 2013 -2014 the split was fairl even .but take away the 18 does from that wood and there would be noticeable diffrence if the bucks favour ,i will dig out last years cull sheets tonight just out off a matter of intrestWe normally shoot a higher percentage of bucks a year then does, thats predominantly because we see more bucks.
Paul at Barony, how much experience with muntjac management do you have? I seem to remember on the post about your Finnish trip it was mentioned that you had only shot a couple.
Very true ! Unless they have the level two in which case they know allNot at all; but it amazes me how many experts on a topic have little experience past reading about it.
plus 1 Me too
A post made by someone managing both the woodland, and an invasive species within it, whom has found that a zero tolerance of muntjac has allowed his coppiced areas to regenerate, yet still has a cull figure roughly the same. If you are involved with woodland grants, or your landowner has a significant income from woodland, you cannot mess around with a misinformed cull management strategy before the forester/contractor will be after better control from someone else. Muntjac repopulate faster than most people realise, will always repopulate a recently vacated area, and people whom have controlled them hard over many years, find that there is no significant drop in numbers when they've upped their game. If pressed hard, dos the female munty drop more female kids, maybe because you will find you're shooting more females than bucks as the years roll by. A policy of ensuring a dependant kid is not left behind also puts pressure on the stalker, controlling them involves a huge investment of time, and probably more stalkers under you to ensure the numbers/damage is acceptable to the landowner. deerwarden.5 years ago I took on the management of 8 hectares of woodland. Its mainly hazel coppice, although none had been done in 10 years. I started with block coppicing to establish a 7 year cycle. Now I'm not a pro woodsman or Stalker but one thing I soon realised was you don't get nice new hazel growth and Muntjac in the same wood. So after 3 years of trying to control muntjac numbers with no real benefit to the hazel I started shooting on site all muntjac. Only now is the hazel becoming established and funnily the numbers of Muntjac I shoot has also not declined. There will always be Muntjac.