Shooting foxes from a vehicle
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I do love a thread where people just make up what they think the law of the land is and then post it on here like it's gospel. The relevant legislation has been quoted above.
If anyone else wants to post their thoughts on what they think the legalities of shooting on a road might be, can you either make them worthy of a good laugh or just please not bother.
If anyone else wants to post their thoughts on what they think the legalities of shooting on a road might be, can you either make them worthy of a good laugh or just please not bother.
Stalker62
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And all the more delicious because of it…
foxdropper
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Is the shiney tape so you can see yourself looking disappointed every month .
Stalker62
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No, it’s to ensure I pick up the correct calibre moderator: but I do take your point.
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Not within 50 feet of any highway etc…
Actually, not within 50 feet of anything…
Airgun has subsections written. Firearm is the catch all description , its like the this shotgun can be granted from a real silly age ( used to be birth but i think that might have changed ) Firearm ( used to describe guns on fac ) 14 years, no land approval for novices etc . Just pointing out how easy it is to slip up talking about " gun" legislation with the definition " firearm"
Best course of action if in doubt is phone your orgs " firearms team " and check rather than rely on Forums ( or even your FEO who i have known be wrong many times ) its quite telling that my area carries a cheat sheet on legislation from BASC firearms.
Stalker62
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No it has not changed.
And no, it is not from birth, that would be ridiculous.
A SGC can (technically) be granted to anyone who is two years old.
Why?
Because, your referees must have known you for at least two years.
And before you start, I didn't write the damn laws...
Shotgun572013
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Oi !
Absolutely legally correct - it would give ammunition however to people (e.g Packham) even if not injured, interrupted or endangered.Not true.
Again not true.
The following is the Law in England & Wales.
The Highways Act 1980
Laws relevant to shooting near roads and ‘ways’ can be found in section 161(2) of the Highways Act 1980 (and its amendments) and states:
If a person without lawful authority or excuse—
(a)lights any fire on or over a highway which consists of or comprises a carriageway; or
(b)discharges any firearm or firework within 50 feet of the centre of such a highway,
AND in consequence a user of the highway is injured, interrupted or endangered, that person is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
In short. No harm no foul.
Those North of the Wall, will have their own wee vagaries...
Stalker62
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It is always interesting to debate such issues.
My view, is that we can and should do all that is legal.
I do not agree that lawfully caring out anything, can give 'ammunition' to anyone, much less Mr. Packham - who may very well have legal issues of his own to worry about right now.
Len the dog
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When you say, shooting from the vehicle, is this the kind of thing you had in mind?
Why?
Benelli m2
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Op says shooting from a motor on a quiet country road so the road is used ok
So what would happen if a police car pulled up behind you what are you going to do
Bloody crazy
So what would happen if a police car pulled up behind you what are you going to do
Bloody crazy
Deermanagement
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Stop shooting and rack/store the gun before they get to you. Unless of course they've sneaked up on you with their electric stealth squad car running a heads up thermal display instead of lights. Hmmmm... the ideal lamping vehicle
countrryboy
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I bet in my part of scotland they're will be more foxes shot of public roads than from the fields throu the winter months.
Atleast in the past when everything was lamped, possibly easier now than ever to NV/thermal on shank's pony than before.
But still a lot of foxes shot of the tarmac, and as i said in a previous similar thread most shooters know where every hole in the hedge or slight rise where u can scan/safe shot over the fields.
Hell in the past we used to ride 2 up in a shooting cage in the back of a pick up along A class trunk road ( to b fair we never shot of it) that ran throu the estate and that was with a Night licence so polis had to be notified when and where u were
Atleast in the past when everything was lamped, possibly easier now than ever to NV/thermal on shank's pony than before.
But still a lot of foxes shot of the tarmac, and as i said in a previous similar thread most shooters know where every hole in the hedge or slight rise where u can scan/safe shot over the fields.
Hell in the past we used to ride 2 up in a shooting cage in the back of a pick up along A class trunk road ( to b fair we never shot of it) that ran throu the estate and that was with a Night licence so polis had to be notified when and where u were
Nothing. It's not illegal. Or to put it another way, it is legal. Read the law that's quoted verbatim further up this thread.
I know of at least a couple of pheasant shoots that have drives on one side of a road with the guns standing on the other. Sometimes with a gun or two on the road, or the verge anyway. Obviously they are sparsely used country roads. But there's nothing illegal about it. So long as proceedings stop whilst a road user passes by. Incidentally I know a few shoots that have public footpaths in (or near) a national park and the same happens there. Quite often, fell walkers will stop and chat to someone taking part. To my knowledge, I don't know of any walkers complaining. Some will stop and watch the drive and ask questions as to how it works and some have taken a brace of birds if offered. I think the most anti sentiment I've ever had was a walker who stopped to watch saying "I hope you miss I think". I obliged!
levigsp
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wrong
I can see any approaching vehicles for miles, so just a case of putting rifle back in motor and waiting till they pass, or if they stop, have a chat with them. When they have stopped in the past, they havnt really been that bothered about the rifle, more interested in what/who I see when im out at all hours of the night.
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