game dealer prices!!

[ashray]

good morning,today i dropped off at the game dealers the following, one fallow 64 kilo clean chest shot,one 6 kilo muntjac chest shot clean,5 rabbits ,received £81.45 ffs. wont even cover the fuel cost for the day! i think its time i put my feet up and let some once else take over. no more out before dawn /home after dark/ out in all weathers .dont get me wrong i do love my stalking but the costs of just getting out there and then being ripped off by the game dealer is just too much.

 

[Andyquadra]

Did the dealer explain why?
I know muntjac are worth very little, but would expect the fallow to be at least £2 per kg?

 

[tozzybum]

Same here local game dealer has the cheek to offer only 15p a bird for Pigeons ,he,s not asking for any other "game" .So shoot a pigeon with a 25p cartridge and you,ve already made a loss ,before fuel,time and travel .Rabbit gets you a £1 for headshot ones at certain butchers but nobody,s making their fortune here,you want to get really angry go to Costco the so called wholesaler ,£28 a lb priced on their venison .
Someone seriously taking the wee wee here

 

[enfieldspares]

At Leicester Market yesterday.

Pheasant dressed and drawn so oven ready £4.20. Or a brace of cock and hen also 'oven ready' at £7.95. Ex-layer chickens sold as 'boiling fowl' at £3.50.

Pigeon 'oven ready' at £2.99 each. No partridge.

Therefore a chicken was actually cheaper on a £ per Kilo comparison that the pigeon and cheaper on a direct bird for bird comparison with the pheasant.

 

[cullguy]

Do it because you enjoy it everything enjoyable costs money ! to many people doing it for financial gain that gets me mad rather than any game price. years ago i was getting 30p per pound for reds never complained just glad someone was able to make use of them.

 

[BE Precision]

good morning,today i dropped off at the game dealers the following, one fallow 64 kilo clean chest shot,one 6 kilo muntjac chest shot clean,5 rabbits ,received £81.45 ffs. wont even cover the fuel cost for the day! i think its time i put my feet up and let some once else take over. no more out before dawn /home after dark/ out in all weathers .dont get me wrong i do love my stalking but the costs of just getting out there and then being ripped off by the game dealer is just too much.

You could just consider the meat as a byproduct of the management and be happy rather than complaining. If you don't want it, PM me and i’ll happily take the ground on.

 

[jimbo1984]

You could just consider the meat as a byproduct of the management and be happy rather than complaining. If you don't want it, PM me and i’ll happily take the ground on.

Or you could think the dealer is taking the **** .......

 

[jimbo1984]

Do it because you enjoy it everything enjoyable costs money ! to many people doing it for financial gain that gets me mad rather than any game price. years ago i was getting 30p per pound for reds never complained just glad someone was able to make use of them.

Good for you , for what it’s worth I’ve never thought of it as financial gain just covering my diesel and part way towards highseats , the fact remains some dealers take the ****

 

[Island]

Do it because you enjoy it everything enjoyable costs money ! to many people doing it for financial gain that gets me mad rather than any game price. years ago i was getting 30p per pound for reds never complained just glad someone was able to make use of them.

+1

I stalk because I enjoy it, everything else is secondary to that.

Some play football for a hobby, I very much doubt whether any of them make money out of it. Some windsurf, same outcome. I have friends that, through choice, throw themselves from the top of mountains with a canopy over their heads; I know that they don't make money from it.

Why is there an increasing sentiment nowadays that stalking, as a hobby, should pay it's own way?

 

[Island]

Good for you , for what it’s worth I’ve never thought of it as financial gain just covering my diesel and part way towards highseats , the fact remains some dealers take the ****

That is quite true @jimbo1984, some game dealers do indeed seem to milk it quite mercilessly.

However, one has a very simple choice if not happy about the financial outlay involved in stalking and that is to give it up.

I know of very few other hobbies that "cover costs".

 

[User00003]

Your dealer is ****, simple as. Accept no less than £1.80 in peak supply season

Look elsewhere and maybe consider having another dealer pick up on their runs up and down the country.

There’s at least one or two ‘mobile’ dealers who sweep up these ****taking game dealers

It’s like high street shops, days are numbered!

 

[Orion]

The reason for the low price was printed in the Guardian 'Feast' supplement yesterday in a short piece by one 'Tom Hunt':



There you have it; your venison was no better than landfill to a certain section of society, (‘can’t approve of hunting wild animals now can we’), so why should you expect to receive payment for it?

BTW, his ‘Wild Burger’ recipe was the only one in 24 pages of vegetarian propaganda to feature red meat - there was also Sichuan Braised Chicken with Chestnuts, which presumably passed the ‘okay ‘cos it’s ethnic’ sub-editor test.

 

[Uncle f]

Supply and demand. No one wants pheasants but we keep breeding and releasing for shooting. This will stop in future as the antis are on to it. Venison is and will always be a byproduct of deer management practices in wild populations. The fact we can eat it/sell it etc is a great advantage but not the first reason to cull an animal. It looks as if it’s all going the same way to much supply for very little demand. I know my game dealer I use will take pheasants before Xmas but will offer no money after Xmas he won’t have em at all as he has too many. Venison he will always purchase but only Pays £1per kg on muntjac and CWD and £2.20 a Kg for all other animals all year. He does impose a fat reduction on fallow bucks September and October there his rules.

 

[jimbo1984]

That is quite true @jimbo1984, some game dealers do indeed seem to milk it quite mercilessly.

However, one has a very simple choice if not happy about the financial outlay involved in stalking and that is to give it up.

I know of very few other hobbies that "cover costs".

I don’t cover costs especially when you consider rifles , optics etc but I do at least try to cover fuel costs which are significant

 

[ashray]

good afternoon gentle men,the revenue from my stalking helps my pension so when it drops my pension drops,as for those of you willing to take my ground,its 2500 acres of arable land with four wooded areas and i average 34 roe 60 fallow and 50 muntjac a year,these quota,s need to be met so out in all weathers also the rabbit numbers have to be kept down. i recently took on a young lad to start his stalking and may hand over to him,so this ground will not be available to other stalkers. stalking has never been a hobby!

 

[potshotpat]

Supply and demand. No one wants pheasants but we keep breeding and releasing for shooting. This will stop in future as the antis are on to it. Venison is and will always be a byproduct of deer management practices in wild populations. The fact we can eat it/sell it etc is a great advantage but not the first reason to cull an animal. It looks as if it’s all going the same way to much supply for very little demand. I know my game dealer I use will take pheasants before Xmas but will offer no money after Xmas he won’t have em at all as he has too many. Venison he will always purchase but only Pays £1per kg on muntjac and CWD and £2.20 a Kg for all other animals all year. He does impose a fat reduction on fallow bucks September and October there his rules.

There will be an expert on here shortly to sort out this and all other worldly problems. He's just got to finish his church sermon first.

 

[AN DU RU FOX]

I,m too tight to sell owt! it gets eaten or given to friends/family.

 

[jimbo1984]

There will be an expert on here shortly to sort out this and all other worldly problems. He's just got to finish his church sermon first.

I wouldn’t worry one of the experts has already covered it .....

 

[SussexSteve]

good afternoon gentle men,the revenue from my stalking helps my pension so when it drops my pension drops,as for those of you willing to take my ground,its 2500 acres of arable land with four wooded areas and i average 34 roe 60 fallow and 50 muntjac a year,these quota,s need to be met so out in all weathers also the rabbit numbers have to be kept down. i recently took on a young lad to start his stalking and may hand over to him,so this ground will not be available to other stalkers. stalking has never been a hobby!

Have you thought about guided stalking?

 

[BE Precision]

good afternoon gentle men,the revenue from my stalking helps my pension so when it drops my pension drops,as for those of you willing to take my ground,its 2500 acres of arable land with four wooded areas and i average 34 roe 60 fallow and 50 muntjac a year,these quota,s need to be met so out in all weathers also the rabbit numbers have to be kept down. i recently took on a young lad to start his stalking and may hand over to him,so this ground will not be available to other stalkers. stalking has never been a hobby!

Your numbers are too high, you’re creating a vacuum. Leave some dominant animals in good family groups and you will be able to get upset less frequently