Hi all, I’m from Lancashire and shoot both air fiddles and shot guns. I’m wondering if there is anyone who has or knows of somewhere local I could get permissions for rough shooting or vermin control with either air rifles or shotgun. I’ve shot most my life but mainly on driven shoots and looking for something a little more affordable so I can enjoin more regular. Thanks in advance
Lancashire vermin / rough shooting
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Stalker1962
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Have a think a minute, yeah I know lots of places but as a shooting man with plenty of mates do you think I might be ready to hand this information out on line and to a stranger ?
You need to go and look , ask place an advert or two on farm supplies places , farmers farming etc knock on doors etc etc
You need to go and look , ask place an advert or two on farm supplies places , farmers farming etc knock on doors etc etc
I have called, emailed and knocked on multiple farms around my area with no positive response. I’ve posted here as you say to ask and potentially advertise for opportunities.
Takes time and axlot of effort, I have never known someone give away permissions to a stranger on a shooting forum . Have known guys with too much pass extra land onto a trusted mate but there's ten more that's no longer mates with someone who lost a mate when they approached the landowner to try and muscle in to steal one .
It really is a lot of legwork over years not months then you get recommended for a good job to other landowners .
Short of shooting feral pigeon in barns airgun permission are actually about the hardest to get
Randomly knocking on farmers doors is a waste of time.
You need to see somewhere that appears to have a problem, and then find the farmer and offer to fix that problem.
For example : there's a load of pregnant ewes, but there's lots of crows and jackdaws too - those will take the eyes out of new-born lambs. You can offer to fix that problem. Which saves the farmer money.
In summer, a farmer's wheat crop is getting hammered by pigeons. Problem, you offer a solution.
Bear in mind that a lot of tenanted farms don't have the shooting rights (game shooting), but they do have the right to pest control. Ask too much and you're more likely to get nothing.
Once you've got a foot in the door, keep your promises. Fix those 'problems'. Doing that will get your name known, and will more than likely lead to that farmer's mates offering you pest control.
These days, unless it's a specific 'problem fox', I don't take on any new land. I concentrate on keeping the pest control work done on the land that I've got - 3 farms, 500 acres.
You need to see somewhere that appears to have a problem, and then find the farmer and offer to fix that problem.
For example : there's a load of pregnant ewes, but there's lots of crows and jackdaws too - those will take the eyes out of new-born lambs. You can offer to fix that problem. Which saves the farmer money.
In summer, a farmer's wheat crop is getting hammered by pigeons. Problem, you offer a solution.
Bear in mind that a lot of tenanted farms don't have the shooting rights (game shooting), but they do have the right to pest control. Ask too much and you're more likely to get nothing.
Once you've got a foot in the door, keep your promises. Fix those 'problems'. Doing that will get your name known, and will more than likely lead to that farmer's mates offering you pest control.
These days, unless it's a specific 'problem fox', I don't take on any new land. I concentrate on keeping the pest control work done on the land that I've got - 3 farms, 500 acres.
Don't go onto a game shoot because the farm says its OK ever! Speak to whomever has the game shooting beforehand . The farmer keeps certain rights himself but calling another person in to shoot stuff isn't for him to do , ethically or legally in most cases but it does depend on the paperwork done or not done
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