UK Driven Boar

[Heym SR20]

UK not being suitable for driven boar / deer hunting.

I have hunted quite a bit in Germany in and around the Hagen area. It reminds me of Sussex - lots of woodland and farmland intermixed and with a lot of houses and villages dotted about.

With a bit of planning, and well disciplined shooters they shoot successfully and manage large numbers of animals.

Mostly the guns are on a raised platform - but not always.

Each platform has a well marked out arc of fire into safe backdrops. You only shoot into that arc of fire.

Shoot out with the safe arc of fire - and yes they do check for bullet strikes on the ground / trees and blood / hair from shot animals - you will loose your hunting licence.

As for locals. Well they have a way of working closely with local people. There are meetings between the equivalent of the parish council and the hunt two or three times a year and dates are well published. Most of the meat is eaten with a very few km of where it is shot. And the hunt will host barbecues etc.

So when it comes to the hunt the locals either watch, participate or keep out of the way.

In most areas a piece of land only has one or two hunts a year and that pretty much is enough to manage deer and boar numbers - accounts for 50 to 75% of the annual required cull.

During the summer period hunters are out in the fields - they are pretty much doing crop protection and encouraging deer and boar to remain in the woods.

Hunters will pay the farmer compensation if the boar damage the crops - so there is quite an incentive to keep boar out of crops.

 

[Keith Edmunds]

UK not being suitable for driven boar / deer hunting.

I have hunted quite a bit in Germany in and around the Hagen area. It reminds me of Sussex - lots of woodland and farmland intermixed and with a lot of houses and villages dotted about.

With a bit of planning, and well disciplined shooters they shoot successfully and manage large numbers of animals.

Mostly the guns are on a raised platform - but not always.

Each platform has a well marked out arc of fire into safe backdrops. You only shoot into that arc of fire.

Shoot out with the safe arc of fire - and yes they do check for bullet strikes on the ground / trees and blood / hair from shot animals - you will loose your hunting licence.

As for locals. Well they have a way of working closely with local people. There are meetings between the equivalent of the parish council and the hunt two or three times a year and dates are well published. Most of the meat is eaten with a very few km of where it is shot. And the hunt will host barbecues etc.

So when it comes to the hunt the locals either watch, participate or keep out of the way.

In most areas a piece of land only has one or two hunts a year and that pretty much is enough to manage deer and boar numbers - accounts for 50 to 75% of the annual required cull.

During the summer period hunters are out in the fields - they are pretty much doing crop protection and encouraging deer and boar to remain in the woods.

Hunters will pay the farmer compensation if the boar damage the crops - so there is quite an incentive to keep boar out of crops.

I think the following says it all.......


"As for locals. Well they have a way of working closely with local people. There are meetings between the equivalent of the parish council and the hunt two or three times a year and dates are well published. Most of the meat is eaten with a very few km of where it is shot. And the hunt will host barbecues etc. So when it comes to the hunt the locals either watch, participate or keep out of the way".

I also know that local radio stations often announce where a driven hunt is taken place so that motorists can be extra careful - can you imagine that happening in England??

I think driven hunting 'could' take place but weigh up all the pros and cons based on our cultural differences - I think that highseat/stalking will always be the way we do it in blighty. Not wanting to be the harbinger of doom but.....From my many mainland European hunting friends I know that public opinion is changing - and not in the right way.

 

[KimE]

I think the following says it all.......


"As for locals. Well they have a way of working closely with local people. There are meetings between the equivalent of the parish council and the hunt two or three times a year and dates are well published. Most of the meat is eaten with a very few km of where it is shot. And the hunt will host barbecues etc. So when it comes to the hunt the locals either watch, participate or keep out of the way".

I also know that local radio stations often announce where a driven hunt is taken place so that motorists can be extra careful - can you imagine that happening in England??

I think driven hunting 'could' take place but weigh up all the pros and cons based on our cultural differences - I think that highseat/stalking will always be the way we do it in blighty. Not wanting to be the harbinger of doom but.....From my many mainland European hunting friends I know that public opinion is changing - and not in the right way.

In Sweden the local radio often sends live on the opening day of the moosehunt. Most people think possitive of hunting as they often know hunters and have taken part of game dinners at their house. Hunting are cheap here so most people can afford to do it if they like to and you can find hunting education so you dont need to have contacts to beguinn.

 

[Jagare]

In Sweden the local radio often sends live on the opening day of the moosehunt. Most people think possitive of hunting as they often know hunters and have taken part of game dinners at their house. Hunting are cheap here so most people can afford to do it if they like to and you can find hunting education so you dont need to have contacts to beguinn.

Often there is live reporting by the local radio station from the forest about the moose hunting. Quite a few years back there was a church service in town to mark the start of the moose hunting. I've joined a new hunting team for this year that cost me 4500sek plus I have gone in with the shoot owner who is a mate to buy some ducks and some big bags of Barley. We start on the ducks that are mostly wild bird on the 2nd sept then there is unlimited sitting out for boar plus a couple of driven days. I've missed the roe buck for this season because of getting ready to move house. there are fallow on the ground plus a few mouflon that are not shot yet. Next year we are thinking about putting down some pheasant. So quite good value for money.

 

[GBR66]

Not my Turkey experience at all. For me 5 days hunting less than 3 k no trophy fees and all wild driven, had 14 personally and saw 300 + myself so really enjoyed my experience. You need to shop more wisely!!

Can you tell us who that was with please?

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Not boar, but I’m surprised that driving muntjac hasn’t taken off as a legitimate control technique.
I was thinking shotguns rather than rifles, similar to fox drives.

They do driven muntjac already. They get driven all around the country.

 

[levigsp]

Several years ago Peter Carr did organise driven Boar in a part of SW Scotland but was soon stopped due to the way it was run.
Apparently pigs were kept in a certain area and fed for a while and then released to be pushed towards standing guns.
It was covered in depth by an article in the times, titled 'Big Guns Return to Scotland'
Some pigs actually ran/walked towards some of the guns expecting to be fed.

Why does none of that suprize me. Lol

 

[Bo Diddley]

Ahh, that's when one dog is driving one deer (or hare, or fox). If you want to drive multiple deer (as in muntjac in number) out of reasonably large woods, one dog will struggle, 2 will do a little better but 4 or 5 will do a great job.

Hi Keith, do you know legally where you would stand if you had 4 people walking through a block of woodland each with a hunting dog pushing deer, but not hunting as a pack? I assume that because it is mammals you would be pushing it's illegal compared to say three beaters each working a brace of spaniels in the beating line pushing gamebirds?

 

[Keith Edmunds]

Hi Keith, do you know legally where you would stand if you had 4 people walking through a block of woodland each with a hunting dog pushing deer, but not hunting as a pack? I assume that because it is mammals you would be pushing it's illegal compared to say three beaters each working a brace of spaniels in the beating line pushing gamebirds?

I would think that you would have to be limited to two dogs. If the four dogs got on the scent of one beast and were driving it.....it's a pack of four and not four individual dogs.

 

[Polar Lynx]

If aim is to lower a local boar population then driven hunts are not effective. Sometimes 20-30 shots are fired in an hour but resulting in no more than one or two wounded boar.
However, from a commercial point of view driven hunts are spendid i.e. boar stock rather intact year after year and steady money flowing in.

 

[baguio]

The chap you were talking to was probably the same fellow who always headshoots foxes at 700 yds....
If the truth be known, he was only in the shop to buy airgun pellets.

He's probably a member on here then? PM all those with 10,000 posts plus from that area!

 

[gelert]

I know A1 Decoy were advertising a fenced Boar shoot in Cheshire last year, could possibly be the same place but happy to be corrected.
I'm fortunate to have Boar on my permission.

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