Recreational shooting and providing a service are not the same thing.
In some cases yes, in others recreational can still be a good service. That is how I have kept hold of land to shoot over, I put the effort in on the vermin and I have a couple of thousand acres of stalking off of the back of it.
Out of interest what general licence are you shooting pigeons under on stables and a golf course?
There aren't any pigeons at my stables so there is nothing to remove, and realistically i think you would need a lot of pigeons to justify the gl42 for ferel and wood at a stable.
You said you shoot ‘edible general licence birds’ so feral pigeons are ruled out and wood pigeons are never going to cause serious damage of foodstuffs at a stables. So if you are shooting them you are not doing so legally on the golf course or the stables.
If you stop your recreational shooting they will need to pay someone to do it.
We are saying the same thing here? Edible bird on the GL can include Canadian goose as an example which there are hundreds of at one of the stables which is around 200 acres in total.
Rake I understand your position I think, It's the have's and the have not's, for centuries the landowners of this Island have been able to dictate to their employees. My grandfather lost his job as a stockman because a calf died, he got evicted that night from the tied cottage they lived in, and my mother was troubled by the memories of having to move at short notice as a child, granddad found a new job immediately as he was an excellent stockman ( his previous employer was not a nice man). These landowners still hold all the cards as far as our chosen pastime is concerned, but not quite as bad as years gone by, with tighter margins for them, and rising costs, some of them are starting to realize when they have to pay, often I find the ones that are happy to pay are the new money farmers rather than the old money type!
Most people say they are inedible
No, they won’t.
Good answer (best so far) I have in Dads room his single steel frame bed which he died in but also sleep in for when GD worked as a stock man that was the bed they had for my dad as a little boy as it could be taken apt put on the cart and down to the train station with the other small bits of furniture as the farmer raised his stick (as they did) with GD being an ex heavy weight Army boxer. I asked Dad in his late years why they moved so many times when he was young.. William Robert had fast hands he replied then he would have a cry as he did when he spoke abt GD...
Those people cant cook!Most people say they are inedible
I don't think driving up the long gravel driveway and offering your services to the farmer/land owner ever really worked tbf, we either got told a blunt no or if it was a yes they had already said yes to every other Tom Dick & Harry and the sport was poor, to many cooks and all that... social media is a curse, best avoided I think!
I am at a loss why farmers don't send there Forman or sons/daughters to shoot the pigeons as they can drive where they want where the pigeon shooters have to walk/wheelbarrow
If I need a tree cut down near my house I'll pay a professional not let the hobby "tree surgeon" from down the road have a crack at it by himself, much the same as getting a kitchen fitted by a professional and not some bloke I've never met but does a bit of DIY at home because he enjoys it.
I’ve cut some pretty big trees down without event and fitted 2 kitchens
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