tom1cameron

Fair enough jamie....the shoe fits then.......I am sure there is a difference between the romantic styled picture you paint of poaching and the stories reported to the police about threatening behaviour....... Just for the record.....I only pull the trigger on land where I have permission to do so......

Thanks! I have no idea.....? Genuinely.....I get lots of feedback from farmers I work with in Yorkshire that they have coursers on their land without permission. I dont know the other side of the story. I am so ignorant of this subject I have no idea whether coursers have an association or not...if you do you should get onto the BBC to demand they make a counter statement about this generalisation of your behaviour if you think it warrants it. The story is on their news website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8311269.stm Off course Joe bloggs believes it. There is

Just one more attempt to get this post back on track........lets say I dont care whether you catch hares or rabbits......... Do you think the claims of thuggery are fair.......? Do you think the claims of poaching are fair.......? Why is it a God given right to abuse others and poach their land? Hands up...I am a boring person who does not hunt with lurchers:)

Shooting IS in the spotlight mate.....and we have to do our best to be seen as squeakly clean model citizens. This allows us the upper hand when dealing with the law makers! I am with you on this Maltenby..... what I have posted is not anti coursing.....it is anti poaching and anti "getting caught" or blatently admiting that you break the law. Because of the reality of us all being in this together...any bad PR that shooting brings or coursing or hunting or stalking or fishing brings ....it hits us all! I probably wont post on this again....but it would be nice to hear what anyone

Thanks for all the positive criticisms....I appreciate this is a difficult subject but please be assured I raised it to ask what coursers on here thought about the article on the BBC and in particular the very bad PR they accuse you of.....that coursers....1. chase hares, 2. enter land without permission all the time...3. Threaten landowners who try to tackle them.................I'll deal with the ban comments second......... Leeview....you are right...It is poaching before or after the ban.....how can the dog working community complain of all the things that are said and done against the

Whether it is impartial or not...this is not the first time that hare coursers have been portrayed as people who eneter land they dont own, without permission to course game and then threaten any landowners who stand up against them..... Is this the norm or are there some of you out there who think this is wrong..... If so....tell the CA or some other organisation to get a response on there as it comes across very bad I have no time for people who threaten others...it brings the whole hunting, shooting and fishing communities into disrepute. T PLEASE read all posts be

Just to follow up IN short The question is not about competance or experience. It is part of their interpretation of making sure the individual knows what the parts of gun are and do (seems silly but you never know what a gun virgin could do if they had never held one before and just bought one and went home?). So it is a H&S question to make sure that the applicant is not a danger to themselves once they get the cert. They just want to use trust (by speaking to someone they feel is trustworthy, i.e. a cert holder) to check that the individual has had some "basic" instruction on s

for the second time I have just been asked to witness, over the phone, that I have seen a friend use a shotgun recently so that he can be granted a shotgun licence. As I understand it this is not something that an applicant should be asked to do. And given this applicant is a former marine and has stories of gameshooting over the world and hung up his guns while working in India and has now retired.......it is completely ridiculous. I am speaking to BASC but what I want to know is whether anyone else in West Yorks has been asked to prove they have shot a shotgun recently while app

I was shooting with one of these with Riverside Outdoor....they are pretty good when it is wild and windy..deadly.... have not tried them in calm weather T

£50 seems to be a going rate this season.........

Wag/8 bore Thanks! Always nice to get postive criticism! Always factory loads.....simple reason is that Joe Hunter when shooting duck usually shoots a factory shell through a 12g. I have a hunch, from what I have seen thus far of the all results sent into BASC, is that there is greater pattern retention from homeloads (i.e. less flyers)........that may be because of higher velocity which tightens steel patterns unlike with lead where it increases flyers....anyway...a debate about to start from that claim alone no doubt Best be off to change my deeks from long lines to droppers

estimated 24% growth since last years count of pinkfeets and there are loads of young birds in the early season bag....of 5 some friends I I dropped from a small pack a few weeks back......4 were defo first years and 1 was still a youngster but maybe 2 years old...... They were tasty

so you bid for the goose shooting lease at Eccup then! Good man to know. Take a look at euring.com Greylags can live for up to 40 years.......outwith hunting pressure.... So a 7 year old is still a young-un Besides....there are so many recipes to use with older birds it doe snot matter...try a confit T

Well done V-max, a fantastic foreshore flight!

Pinkfoots, 290,000+ and rising consistantly for years Resident Greylags and Resident Canada's are ditto.... while we have an "ethical" limit placed, not a legal one...for migratory pinks and greys the current situation is that we.....as a shooting population.... are not doing enough to limit a growing and potentially damaging population of greylags and canada geese in England and Wales I said before that local overexploitation must be a potential problem.....but I have not seen any evidence of it published or spoken of As said earlier in discussion..............if they get eaten.