DSC2 - additional evidence

[Robbo617]

Have been told it can take up to 14 weeks to be internally/externally verified and assessed, so it's a waiting game now! Best of luck with yours too, and as nerve wrecking as it can be having someone watching your every move, try enjoy yourself! L2 is just another excuse to get out stalking!! If indeed you need one!! Lol

ATB

​Rob

 

[redandroe]

I have been an AW for many years now and I can tell you that the system does not want additional info that is not relevant or pictures. These prove nothing and gives all concerned more clutter to go through. The type of additional information that is useful is a letter written by a game dealer for example that is willing to state that you provide good quality carcasses into the food chain prior to being assessed.
If you keep cull records, only add a single sheet as an example, don't load it up with all your outings. There is plenty room on the front pages to give an example of the time you have been stalking, the species stalked and the amount.
​Good luck

 

[JabaliHunter]

The type of additional information that is useful is a letter written by a game dealer for example that is willing to state that you provide good quality carcasses into the food chain prior to being assessed.

​Funny, I was told the exact opposite!
Even though a game dealer may have records of accepting carcasses with your tags on them and provide a reference, there is no way of actually proving that they were shot and prepared by you. In any case, your ability will have been assessed on 3 separate occasions by the time you complete the ICRs and submit the portfolio, so while nice to have it is questionable whether it adds materially to the portfolio...

 

[JabaliHunter]

Have been told it can take up to 14 weeks to be internally/externally verified and assessed, so it's a waiting game now! Best of luck with yours too, and as nerve wrecking as it can be having someone watching your every move, try enjoy yourself! L2 is just another excuse to get out stalking!! If indeed you need one!! Lol

ATB

​Rob

That's a good approach to it!

 

[redandroe]

​Funny, I was told the exact opposite!
Even though a game dealer may have records of accepting carcasses with your tags on them and provide a reference, there is no way of actually proving that they were shot and prepared by you. In any case, your ability will have been assessed on 3 separate occasions by the time you complete the ICRs and submit the portfolio, so while nice to have it is questionable whether it adds materially to the portfolio...

it does at weight to the portfolio as it is another view on what you are doing. I see where you are coming from and can understand it, but the system accepts it.

 

[JabaliHunter]

it does at weight to the portfolio as it is another view on what you are doing. I see where you are coming from and can understand it, but the system accepts it.

For what its worth, the three of four AWs that I spoke to all suggested that it is a valid thing to include in a portfolio. On the other hand the two assessors that I spoke to suggested that it wouldn't add weight for the reasons that I stated above.

Similarly, a check zero target would need to be witnessed and signed by an AW to be valid.

By all means submit it if you have it, but don't feel the need to go out of your way to obtain it because at the end of the day success depends on the evidence submitted within the three ICRs, i.e. the candidate and witness narratives and any supplementary questioning on the PCs.