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    loads of upland hare shooting, driven as well, in the grampians. They are a different species that the lowland hare but they taste as good and they can run fast when they want to. Plus, in some areas they can get in extremely high densities. I dont support the eradication you get in some places but a cull every now and then helps reduce tick borne diseases....apparently!
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    John, if you cant drink £10's worth of amber nectar in under an hour, either you need some lessons or your drinking the wrong malt! Seasons gone, but sipping whisky aint!
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    No you are not in the law if you are protecting bird feeders in a garden or even around a farm. Go back to the links I sent you and read the general licence. I am not really that fussed as these are not what you would call "native" birds and the UK is at the edge of their range. But......if you want to remain within the law....you are not with the excuse you just gave. Protecting wild birds does not include protecting food on a bird table, it means protecting them from predatory birds during nesting season, such as killing magpies and jays etc etc You could kill a mappie in your garden if
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    I hope you dont like hunting ducks! Thats banned in Australia, plenty of roos though
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    All this article says is that firearms law may be devolved, the scottish executive is skint and they have a very good set of rural and environment ministers, all that an airgun ban would lead to anyway is that they would become licenced. Given that a child can currently buy an air pistol in many dodgy shops (including fishing shops which I have never understood), it is about time we had licences. A licence for an air rifle does not need to be as strict as that of SGL and FAC, just a permission to own based on your record (i.e. no convictions, asbos or warnings for anyone living at the prop
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    Not that I agree with it, but to make a point, all Chicken is killed the same way Halal meat is and I am sure that does not stop you buying it. Not the same with other animals though.
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    If its an albino or a domestic it is at risk if it passes over me, yum yum. Would love to find out about it, I'll have a check on the bird forums. Well done on the geese and roe MJ, have a good'un on Friday, oh to be back in the homeland and close to the shore. Leeds is great but living in the most landlocked city in the UK sucks! PS, WHere's that photo taken from?
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    whoops double post
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    Heard a few stories of increased shooting pressures and excessive bags, while not illegal it can lead to legislation that punishes all of us in the long run. The problem is the short-stopping, normally they keep on the move or come down to the mainland and use refuges, there are not many refuges in orkney and the birds arn't moving on. I have also heard that feedback from guides and the tourism industry is that more people booked in Orkney for goose shooting these last few seasons following the goosip about the large numbers. I know it is difficult to think beyond the ones and two's we
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    Sounds like an escaped domestic, never seen that before, someone forgot to clip the wings this year then!
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    I bought some full body GHG canada's from trent valley sporting for £10 each, they also had lessers. Anyway with a short amount of time with a few tins of plasticote and I got some great greylags, I'll try to find some piccies, also take a look at the foam fold-overs which come as pinks and greys, they are very light and more like shells. They are used by quite a number of the guides as well. You can get them from a number of places including RiversideOutdoor. Re Orkney, there have been other posts about this, the Icelandic greylags have been increasingly shortstopping on Orkney for the l
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    There was also a pure white goose in with a batch of greylags yesterday morning brilliant to see. was that a snowie (black wing tips), a bar headed (grey back) or a domestic?
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    sent you PM
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    A few pics from Saturday morning....roll on September
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    They are crackers! Very well done
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    Sorry claybuster, I did not start a debate on everyones woes about BASC, I only asked if anyone was going so I could work out if I would meet anyone from here...there. I sent you a PM
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    dont be silly , they do it for the members benefit and dont charge anything £10, john5 will tell you that such sums of money can be drunk in under an hour on wildfowling trips in Lincolnshire, so hardly a great expense for hosting what seems to be several intersting talks and the opportunity to network face-to-face The only other cost is travel, I'm going as a day delegate and got a return train ticket for £40. http://www.basc.org.uk/media/agenda_2009.pdf The deadline was Friday but I gave them a quick call today and got in so there may be more spaces available T
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    Just signed up for this, anyone else going to be there?
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    charlieT your right there protected! Acording to the current general licence, collared doves are pest species which can be taken under several general licence agreements, assuming you shot this dove as part on an agreement with the landowner (or you are the owner) to prevent damage to stored crops or to prevent disease then you were not committing an offence http://www.basc.org.uk/media/basc_informat...s_in_the_uk.pdf see also http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/r...cencebirds.aspx
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    Speak to Mudman, I was on the outer humber, north bank. Plenty of duck there but you need to be far up the lease (seaward) and have a good number of decoys out there and I reckon you will draw them in. Mallards and teal mainly but we did see plenty of wigeon at high tide out on the water circling for a place to rest..... T
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    Big thankyou to mudman for hosting myself and a newbie, Alex at the humber yesterday morning. What a beautiful morning (i'll post pictures later), gorgeous wildlife, scenery and plenty of duck around. Just not the right conditions to bring them in close, but I did bag a suicidal drake teal just as we were all packed up an spinning yarns. It was very light and clearly a bit hungry, hence why it came in. Thanks mudman, can't wait to try the place again next year!
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    Heading out to the far reaches of the humber tomorrow, cold, but too bright and in big unknown area for me so not optimistic. On other hand the weather should be fabulous and dawn beautiful so taking camera Newbie wildfowler coming with me, it's his first trip. Ah ha, little does he know that he will become addicted about 6.45am tomorrow morning! Last foray for this season so all my wotsits will be crossed (and likely frozen) for a bag to take home. Will post outcome later??????? Let us all know if you are heading out this weekend and where T
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    Any word

    tom1cameron replied to selvey's topic in Wildfowling

    Always check here for news of such http://www.basc.org.uk/content/scotland_severe_weather T
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    This is surely a pigeon feather issue, and if you left the birds to cool he will have still remembered how annoying it was to get all those feathers in his mouth. As you say, with my dog it just took him a bit of getting used to. A few wasted pigeons later and he got the hang of it! The idea might be to get him off fresh kills and working with dummys with pigeon skin and feathers on them with a few loose feathers that can come off. Once he gets used to the loose feathers you can start to put him on cold birds but with loose feathers stuffed under the wings and so on until he is happier
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