Legality of baiting deer?

[Beagle boy]

Good afternoon everyone
I have a friend of mine who is struggling with some muntjac damaging some woodland. I have had a look around the last 2-3 days without the rifle just to get my head around the land and where all the tracks run.
And it’s absolutely bloody full of walkers, not so many as the sun is going down but even then he says he still gets them around at all times.
The only part I can find where isn’t on a footpath has very few tracks and signs of muntjac. So I spoke to the guy and he says he’d be happy to pop down some beets in a hope to try to pull the muntjac over there with the hope of shooting them.
I can’t find out online if it is legal to do so with any clarity and I can’t seem to get a hold of my fire arms officer.
Has anyone got any advice?

Cheers Rob

 

[VSS]

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I can’t find out online if it is legal to do so with any clarity and I can’t seem to get a hold of my fire arms officer.

Why do you want to speak to your firearms officer? This isn't a firearms issue.

 

[Bo Diddley]

You're over thinking it mate, just crack on, and bait.

 

[palmer_mike]

You're over thinking it mate, just crack on, and bait.

Good afternoon everyone
I have a friend of mine who is struggling with some muntjac damaging some woodland. I have had a look around the last 2-3 days without the rifle just to get my head around the land and where all the tracks run.
And it’s absolutely bloody full of walkers, not so many as the sun is going down but even then he says he still gets them around at all times.
The only part I can find where isn’t on a footpath has very few tracks and signs of muntjac. So I spoke to the guy and he says he’d be happy to pop down some beets in a hope to try to pull the muntjac over there with the hope of shooting them.
I can’t find out online if it is legal to do so with any clarity and I can’t seem to get a hold of my fire arms officer.
Has anyone got any advice?

Cheers Rob

Perfectly legal. Sometimes people avoid baiting deer as they are concerned it may attract/hold deer in the area.

No legal problems at all though

 

[Beagle boy]

Why do you want to speak to your firearms officer? This isn't a firearms issue.

Just to double check the legality of it as I couldn’t find a straight answer.
I thought maybe they would be the best people to ask

Cheers rob

 

[Bo Diddley]

Just to double check the legality of it as I couldn’t find a straight answer.
I thought maybe they would be the best people to ask

Cheers rob

Definitely not the people to ask.
It's legal.

 

[Beagle boy]

Ok so I can bait them, thanks lads
Could anyone recommend a good attractant? The land owner says beets but I’ve heard a lot about mineral licks?

 

[VSS]

Just to double check the legality of it as I couldn’t find a straight answer.
I thought maybe they would be the best people to ask

Cheers rob

Deer legislation is not within the remit of a Firearms Officer. Not their department at all. They wouldn't have a clue.

 

[Jelen]

Ok so I can bait them, thanks lads
Could anyone recommend a good attractant? The land owner says beets but I’ve heard a lot about mineral licks?

Apples, or the nearest pheasant feed Minola, they love knocking the tops off for a past-time

 

[dryan]

Beef nuts work, a friend shot a big fallow buck that took to eating beef nuts out of the trough.

 

[tony rentokil]

any info on getting some beef nuts

 

[VSS]

any info on getting some beef nuts

Just go to your nearest agricultural feed merchants and get a 25kg bag. Sheep nuts would do just as well.

 

[Ratcatcher]

Just go to your nearest agricultural feed merchants and get a 25kg bag. Sheep nuts would do just as well.

A bag of horse carrot's would be cheaper

 

[Turkish]

Stick a pheasant feeder out and fill it with maize or wheat. Or get hold of some field beans. The first two are fine in a phesant feeder. The beans are bulkier. Kieth Watson of Kieth Highseats used to make a feeder system for field beans. Give him a call and see if he can help.
Keiths highseat

Just as a side.........You say there is lots of public access to the woods. If they are allowed to roam in there, be mindful of putting out piles of apples and other stuff as it attracts the wrong kind of interest.

 

[Dickie]

Good afternoon everyone
I have a friend of mine who is struggling with some muntjac damaging some woodland. I have had a look around the last 2-3 days without the rifle just to get my head around the land and where all the tracks run.
And it’s absolutely bloody full of walkers, not so many as the sun is going down but even then he says he still gets them around at all times.
The only part I can find where isn’t on a footpath has very few tracks and signs of muntjac. So I spoke to the guy and he says he’d be happy to pop down some beets in a hope to try to pull the muntjac over there with the hope of shooting them.
I can’t find out online if it is legal to do so with any clarity and I can’t seem to get a hold of my fire arms officer.
Has anyone got any advice?

Cheers Rob

Are the walkers on footpaths or just roaming his wood?
It's in the title Firearms Enquiry Officer = firearms law not shooting law.
BASC, NGO BDS ....... would be the people to ask.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Just to double check the legality of it as I couldn’t find a straight answer.
I thought maybe they would be the best people to ask

Cheers rob

Nothing to worry about crack on!

 

[enfieldspares]

No difference from a salt lick or creating an artificial pond by putting a pipe into a small stream and running it to a small man made hollow in the ground.

 

[Greenmist]

As already said, put a pheasant feeder within sight of a highseat, I shot one every evening around my pheasant pens

 

[long_range_rob]

Beans! Work wonders, the little fellas love them.

 

[NoIDeer]

Pheasant feeder, beet and underneath a sweet chestnut tree in season all attract muntjac.
If you really need to get into them a thermal and look for them in thick cover, especially brambles.