Out of season stalking....
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scottybhoy88
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Would depend on what you were shooting and at what time of year? Also be careful you are qualify for out of season on that land! Joe public can't just randomly go to an estate an shoot deer out of season!
As the previous poster said you need a out of season license, can't really shoot out of season on invite, the whole point of out of season shooting is to rectify a problem it is not nor should it ever be seen as a sporting opportunity.
scottybhoy88
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If I was you I would turn it down! Breaking the law!
nell
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It was a hypothetical question ,just curious
matt_hooks
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If someone asked me to help control deer on the land, and having helped to compile a deer management plan and decided that out of season shooting was the only option, then I would apply for the licence and, as a named and authorised person on the licence would carry out the required culling.
If you are invited, then make sure that you are named on the licence.
Other than that, thanks but no thanks.
If you are invited, then make sure that you are named on the licence.
Other than that, thanks but no thanks.
widows son
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the only person that qualifies to shot deer out of season is the named controller no one else you must be named on the licence ,as of the 1st of April this year all out of season licences must be applied for the enclosed land bit is all change check back through my posts there is a link to all the changes in the deer act don't get caught out
Blue400
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If you are granted a out of season authorisation for both sexes then there is clearly a problem with tree damage! No one likes to shoot does/hinds out of season, but if you dont do it there is always someone out there that will.
After all, trees are only a crop to the FC and you are there to protect that crop, even though you are paying for that privlage.
atb Blue.
scottybhoy88
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Have fun gralloching a doe/hind in may/jun! If there was somebody else that would do it personally I would let them!!
flyingfisherman
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+1
1st May to 31 August - "SEXUALLY MATURE FEMALES MAY NOT BE KILLED during this period".
Blue400
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As I said " no one likes to shoot does/hinds out of season" but it is recommended to shoot heavly pregnant muntjac does to prevent
leaving a dependant kids!
atb blue
somerled333
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Season dates just now are not quite right and need modernised, I don't see a problem with shooting stags say till November every one seems to do it anyway, and some estates don't get stags coming in till the 15th of october.
And the hind season should go on till the end of february.
And the hind season should go on till the end of february.
8x57
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I joined a stalking syndicate on a well known Hereforshire estate 15 years ago. It was a disaster from the very start because the guys who were running the deer syndicate were subletting from the guy who was renting the shooting rights. This chap was running a very large commercial pheasant shoot and was shooting most days of the week throughout the season and insisted that we couldn't stalk on either a shooting day or the day before a shooting day, in effect he had taken our money under false pretences. What he wanted us to do was to shoot out of season using the excuse that the deer were causing damage to the trees and crops. I for one wasn't prepared to even consider this and decided to end my membership of the syndicate.
I was not neither surprised nor disappointed to discover that the tenant did a runner at the end of the season and that the syndicate disolved.
I was not neither surprised nor disappointed to discover that the tenant did a runner at the end of the season and that the syndicate disolved.
Rules are for the obedience of fools, & the guidance of wise men,............ think I'll try to be a wise man, & be guided
Interesting. And some of you guys wonder at our "short" seasons? We generally shoot all deer just before , or during the the rutting season so we avoid all such issues: depending on the State and weapon used, late August through Christmas. By then, last years' fawns are mature enough to fend for themselves and the does not heavy with pregnancy, if pregnant at all. Of course, in most places we have no population issues to deal with. Yesterday I saw 25-30 mule deer bedded against a driving snow squall. Amongst the does were three bucks, one with a sincerely impressive rack. The post season mind set here, for me, is such that the thought of shooting that buck never entered my mind. Just admiration.~Muir
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