EddieArran505
Well-Known Member
It seems that DMQ have decided that a DSC1 certificate now awards `Trained Hunter` status to successful candidates from 1st. July.
So now a DSC2 is awarded on the basis of a single stalk and assessment rather than three stalks as was historically the case, and DSC1 attains `Trained Hunter` status again, as it did prior to 2021, after which the Food Standards Agency required it to be attained on successful completion of DSC2 for competence reasons.
So someone who has never actually stalked or gralloched a single deer is qualified to inspect and pass deer for sale to AGHEs and a single, perhaps the only, stalk completed gives the award of DSC2.
Is there an argument here that while we all wish to encourage new stalkers to take up the sport/profession that we have just dumbed the whole qualification down to achieve this?
So now a DSC2 is awarded on the basis of a single stalk and assessment rather than three stalks as was historically the case, and DSC1 attains `Trained Hunter` status again, as it did prior to 2021, after which the Food Standards Agency required it to be attained on successful completion of DSC2 for competence reasons.
So someone who has never actually stalked or gralloched a single deer is qualified to inspect and pass deer for sale to AGHEs and a single, perhaps the only, stalk completed gives the award of DSC2.
Is there an argument here that while we all wish to encourage new stalkers to take up the sport/profession that we have just dumbed the whole qualification down to achieve this?
