What jobs?

[JAYB]

Hey Malc, the weather has not been great, thick frost's, snows and horizontal rain for a change. I did creep out the other week on the quad, spotted some Sika hinds but it was bloody cold. Thought about it and reached the wise decision, although I love my stalking, the cold and my dodgy pins convinced me that I would get the girls when it was a bit warmer, so I went home. The coming week will see me out I expect, I quite like shooting rabbits in this weather, might give them a go.

Plus I always carry an instruction manual with me nowadays, just in case I bump into one of these beaver that people keep on about

Be nice to see you next month, hope you make it.

John

 

[thomas]

Run a small architectural practice (very small; as it's only me). I live out in the sticks and work from home; so very tempting when sitting at desk (read that as looking out of the window) to get the rifle out, even if it's only the HMR and sort out a squirrel or two............

 

[sikamalc]

Some of you already know this anyway.

I am the Curator of a private big game museum, holding over 6000 trophies from Africa and Asia, also a private firearms/cutting weapons collection, fine arts and ethnography, sporting book libraries.

I also run a fulltime outfitting/hunting business taking mostly overseas clients for all the species of deer in the UK and am generally away for about 2 months in the year, give or take a few days, and also Africa. Hunted Africa, America and Finland. Consider myself to be a very lucky man, having forfilled a great many dreams and ambitions by the time I was 45. Having taken Buffalo and Elephant, plus most of the plains game in Africa in over 6 Safaris. Took my first Safari in 1990.

I have many great memories and adventures and also many good friends, some I have lost over the last 5 years, but I would not swap any of it for the world. Hunting is a great leveler and makes true friends, and crosses many countries and class barriers.

I wish all of you much success and good hunting.

 

[stone]

sounds like sikamalc
you will be the envy of many a man's dreams and all before you were 45 wot a lucky break you were blessd with. GOOD ON YOU
now myself i am just contented to live my poxy miserable life.
only joking i have enjoyed my journey through life and still have many years left to enjoy the rest of it where ever it takes me

 

[sikamalc]

Stone, I have heard good reports about you from Mr B. GOOD ON YOU.

I hope we can meet up soon and enjoy a chin wag and a pint. I have met some good people on this site, and am off to try for a Wild Boar with another good man off the site in two weeks, weather permitting. I hope also to help a few more folk out this coming season.

I trust the coming years bring you good fortune and luck with your work and stalking.

All the best mate

Malc.

 

[Fester]

Sikamalc
Now yours is what i call a bloody good job mate beats working for the motor industry ill tell ya Still its sites like this that brings people like us from all walks of life together to talk about 1 common interest.
Happy hunting mate

 

[Beowulf]

Hi Steyr 243,
You are so right about this site and the people that use it. I've stalked with some chaps on this site that are very well to do. In one instance I was expecting the chap to have native barriers! Its great to mix with people outside the circles that you usually find yourself. Gentlemen stalkers I find very much live up to that title.

 

[Fester]

Hi Beowulf
Totally agree with ya mate. Will have to sort out about meeting up sometime with some others off here as were all relatively local to each other

 

[sikamalc]

Native barriers Mr B. Well sherpa JAYB was out of action that week, so you and I had to drag the two yields.

Anyway you are about 15 years younger than me and I still got to the bottom of herartbreak ridge before you

Wait untill this year 2008, I think we might have a go over on the west coast with you

Let me know when you want to get together guys, I will drive up and stay overnight, just so I can put a face to you lot that live north of the Watford Gap

 

[Beowulf]

Hi Steyr,
That will be great! Can I bring my friend Stone? He wants to see the Bison. When I was in Wolverhampton recently everyone was on about 'Bison'. So I asked do you have many Bison around here? "Ar we do.....We wash ar ands in face in em!"

Sikamalc you know that the reason for you getting down the hill faster than me was to fetch the 4x4! I really enjoyed that drag, I couldn't see the point in rushing down!

 

[Fallow Stalker]

Hi All

Well Wadashot this has been an interesting topic with some
great humor from the regulars.

I was thinking Sika Malc must be a Gynaecolgist with the geat knowledge
he was posting about beaver

It shows what a great pursuit stalking has become in the UK with people from all walks of life taking part

I have made my living working in Forestry and Arboriculture for the last
24 years, working for Private Estates and Local Authority, at the moment
I work as a Forestry Officer and am also very lucky to have some paid stalking work as well.

Its never been well paid work but I have been fortunate to have spent the majority of my career out in the forests and woods and have enjoyed every minute of it.
Well apart from when its P***ing down with rain.

Cheers

Fallow Stalker

 

[wadashot]

Thanks Fallow stalker and thanks for all the input lads, even though it went slightly off track at the end but that dosney bother me as like you say fallow stalker, it`s got people talking and exchanging jobs, experiences and other things, and as you say, humour, which is normally started of with Beowulf, good man.

Beowulf asks earlier about which job you would like to do?

Well, I would still like to be a wildlife ranger for the FC, but after all these years i am finally accepting defeat and realising it aint gonna happen. and although i say it myself, it`s their loss as i know i can do the job well. 8) Looks like 15 years more in the steel mill for me

wadashot

 

[Beowulf]

I'm with you on that score Wadas! I would just love to get back to doing tree work and hedgelaying, wild meadow management and ditch digging. Honest graft and good laughs.
During my time at sea we worked with and against nature, it could be dangerous work but great fun. I only wish that we could turn the clock back and help nature for its own sake and not for man's vanity. I've tried so hard to get into environmental conservation but I don't face paint kids, make dream catchers or go on ethnic diversity easter egg hunts, so what good am I? I don't think that there is anything worse than loving your countryside and having to watch it disappear under tarmac whilst people who know nothing about bio-diversity and land management preach about. For some reason we ignore the old wisdom and think at we can tame nature, input it into a computer and know all there is about its moods and ways. When it goes wrong we say its a freak conditions never happened before! Yeah right.

Mankind are sheep in a world of sheep, ruled by wolves! We happy few however are wild goats and therefore have the sense to get to higher ground and question what we are told.

With chainsaw, billhook, axe or rifle I come alive and feel my worth in this world. You can keep your Sky TV, your David Beckham and your Hello magazine life style. To me that is hell.

A bit heavy I know chaps but i had to share these thoughts with someone, I think you know where I'm coming from.

 

[wadashot]

Well said mate, I applaud you, cos you are saying what we are all thinking.

Quote, Beowulf.

I've tried so hard to get into environmental conservation but I don't face paint kids, make dream catchers or go on ethnic diversity easter egg hunts.

Stop it your cracking me up. but it is very very frustrating.

wadas

 

[Beowulf]

When I left the Royal Navy, I got two weeks work experience as a ranger on an estate in Cornwall. It was great we cut down trees, looked after the deer, mended fences and cleared the beaches of floatsam. Happy times! The estate manager was a former Royal Marine and his ranger's real countrymen. I'd have given my right arm for a full time job there, but yet again I would have required a degree in an earth science or such like. When i worked on the land I used to teach these 'Uni grads' their job. Some were good, some were crap, but at the end of the day they all went on to make the discisions and have guys like me standby and watch them turn the natural world into a amusement park for kids how would rather be at an amusement park.
Unless your name is 'Dewisel Moon Child' and you can play a flute whilst telling kids about North American Indian wood spirits, well you aint getting the job! Lentil munching facists!

 

[Fester]

Hi beowulf
Yes you & stone are more than welcome to come over & see the bison & deer mate. Tikka308 will come over as well im sure. The bison are housed in for the winter now but you can still see them & get within a foot of them so youll get a real good close look at them & really apreciate there size.
We housed the reds in this week end for a couple of days until the ground dries out a bit. Then they will go back out again. It was like a lake on saturday after that rain we had. thought we would have a nightmare getting them in but my favourite old hind just followed me with the digestive biscuits & the rest trotted in behind her without any hasstle.

 

[Beowulf]

Excellent Steyr 243, I'll bring the digestives. I'll just have to hide them from Stone!
Thanks Very much!

 

[MR FISH]

Hello all, i've not posted much on here but i'm a regular reader and keen stalker so i thought i'd take advantage of this thread.

I started my own engineering business a year ago doing general mild steel engineering for the modular building industry. Over the last 6 months i've been designing re-locatable modular deer larders. We are currently in the process of building 2 larders for a well known forestry organisation. These hold up to 40 fallow and can incorporate processing and preperation areas.

It definately beats working for some other bugger but my initial idea of having flexible time for shooting has gone right out of the window. I think i've only had my rifle out once in a year!!

i hope no one minds me dropping in a plug about the deer larders, just couldn't miss the opportunity.

 

[geoshot]

I'm a geologist and I work (slave) for a BIG oil company.
I don't have much imagination, hence my username.
And don't blame me for the price of petrol, I just find the stuff they distil it out of, it's the Gorbals Grabber and his lot who screw the price up!!

 

[sikamalc]

Hi All

Well Wadashot this has been an interesting topic with some
great humor from the regulars.

I was thinking Sika Malc must be a Gynaecolgist with the geat knowledge
he was posting about beaver

It shows what a great pursuit stalking has become in the UK with people from all walks of life taking part

I have made my living working in Forestry and Arboriculture for the last
24 years, working for Private Estates and Local Authority, at the moment
I work as a Forestry Officer and am also very lucky to have some paid stalking work as well.

Its never been well paid work but I have been fortunate to have spent the majority of my career out in the forests and woods and have enjoyed every minute of it.
Well apart from when its P***ing down with rain.

Cheers

Fallow Stalker

My old mate the Old Fallow Stalker, what makes you think I am an expert of Gynacalogical matters (probably spelt wrong)