CookM
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Odd.
My mate has fallow,roe and muntjac all in the same woodlands on his shoot.
No discernable boundaries between the species.
They just get along.
Muntjac Deer Distribution
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My mate has fallow,roe and muntjac all in the same woodlands on his shoot.
No discernable boundaries between the species.
They just get along.
kenbro
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I know you have a year or 3 on me!Now, now Ken, I know I am old but that year 1937 was slightly before I appeared in this world.
The first one I shot was in Ryton Wood SW of Coventry which was on a fox drive and we were told to shoot them, circa 1958. Funnily enough the keeper who shot that one in 37 took me over there as his mate was the keeper and they needed plenty of guns.
Only difference? I’m knackered.
Ken.
You're knackered and I'm fcked so like me you'll have to drag yourself about. Got the spinal shots next week and just had a wonderful experience with the fang farrier. Last ones out new straight in, talk about sore gob, liquidising everything. Spine shots might help one leg work, the other's full of metal and screws.
kenbro
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Yeh, the back jabs….been on the fringe of asking for those for few years but can’t quite bring myself to go for it.You're knackered and I'm fcked so like me you'll have to drag yourself about. Got the spinal shots next week and just had a wonderful experience with the fang farrier. Last ones out new straight in, talk about sore gob, liquidising everything. Spine shots might help one leg work, the other's full of metal and screws.
Some bad days and some worse ones!
Keep eating the Co- coadamols and nick a bit of the dog’s Pentagabin occassionally.
Ken.
Tue, see 5 roe shot a muntjac and in the thermal on the way back a fallow doe a very very late fawn with her in a 78 acre wood. Nice to see.
They have sustainable populations Well up into the midlands and crop up now and again in the North , its been said they have been coming up to Bradford airport on cargo planes . Twenty years and they will be all over England and Wales i think . Funny how the Muntjac spread so much faster than CWD
Bavarianbrit
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That cannot be far away from the Banbury Buildings cement factory where they made up pre fab garages and squash courts, I was a buildings draughtsman there in 1971-72.Now, now Ken, I know I am old but that year 1937 was slightly before I appeared in this world.
The first one I shot was in Ryton Wood SW of Coventry which was on a fox drive and we were told to shoot them, circa 1958. Funnily enough the keeper who shot that one in 37 took me over there as his mate was the keeper and they needed plenty of guns.
Just between the Police college and Princethorpe college opposite I think the pub was called the Bull & Butcher. Gone now, big Pikey camp there. Came through there an hour or two ago after seeing relations at Compton Verney/ Kineton.
Bavarianbrit
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Just had a look on the sat pic and the Banbury Building site is now a millboard manufacturing site. When I was there the foreman had an Irish red setter and a big bugger it was it would come up and plant its dirty concrete paws on my newly finished pen & ink drawings, nice dog though plus I was facing one way in the DO office and all the girl tracers faced in the other way so every morning was a what undies are they wearing today day? With the then tiny miniskirts they wore. Oh ah now the wokes will be up in arms.
Heym SR20
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And just to be clear Ifor Williams is welsh dragon that swoops down and carries Muntjac off to new destinations.‘Ifor Williams has also assisted’ love it
WB
Also happens to be a brand of trailers that live behind Pickup trucks that allow pickups to do a minimum of 70mph.
They are a big problem in certain areas.
I shoot a local garden and had 20+ from it in the last 18 months.
It’s 6 acres roughly. The more I shoot the more turn up.
It’s surrounded by shoots and I know they shoot lots each year.
I also live beside a nature reserve where they control the deer and I hear muntjac most evenings.
When I look over the fields with my nv I can usually just watch them no more than 50 yards from the house.
I shoot a local garden and had 20+ from it in the last 18 months.
It’s 6 acres roughly. The more I shoot the more turn up.
It’s surrounded by shoots and I know they shoot lots each year.
I also live beside a nature reserve where they control the deer and I hear muntjac most evenings.
When I look over the fields with my nv I can usually just watch them no more than 50 yards from the house.
Also a great favourite of the ‘doasyoulikys’ who spirit them away during the small hours
WB
Charles S-J
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A sigificant reason is that water deer suffer badly from post capture myopathy and often don't survive being transported. Muntjac are far more robust and easier to move around for (illegal) introductions
First lot of CWD came a long way though eh? I am not a big believer in illegal transportation by design in Muntjac. i do know there are accidental ones as they do seem to like railway embankments , it only takes an open back . There was some around Bradford airport years ago . .
Can't see the motivation in it , very little if anything to gain - Its easy for a Northerner like me to drive a couple of hours down the motorway for a day or two on them
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