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I'll make my position clear right from the start IMHO the BASC are a bunch of *ank*s. How many EEC countries have a wetlands lead shot ban? The BASC backed the UK wide ban 100%. The BASC have publicly opposed a national pigeon shoot, organised by the NGO, why is that? More and more of their members money is being wasted by the year. Where were the BASC during the pistol ban? Remember the countryside march, how long did it take for the BASC to get involved? As for lead in the bullet wound channels, do you really eat meat from these areas? It amazes me why the super markets would risk selling sh
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I once asked this question to a river bailiff and he told me, the fish would belong to 'me' but who ever owned the fishing rights on the side I entered the river could have me prosecuted for poaching. How right or wrong this is, I don't know because I am the worlds worst angler. John
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In essence we are dealing with two areas of legislation, which are conflicting but relevant. The game laws give ownership of dead game to the person who actually kills the game. Now the deer act makes it illegal to remove a deer carcass under the section of 'poaching', which you are obviously not if you are retrieving shot game from over a boundary line. See below: 1 Poaching of deer .(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, if any person enters any land without the consent of the owner or occupier or other lawful authority in search or pursuit of any deer with the intention of ta
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Extract from Deer: law and liabilities. 'There is a view based on the games laws that where deer are legitimately shot on land where authority exists, but fall dead over the boundary, they can be recovered. Whilst this may provide a "legal right" (deer act)there remains the issue of trespass and ownership of carcass at civil law' : MY NOTE it would be for the landowner and not the police to pursue the OP in court and if the landowner could claim that the deer was in fact alive whilst on his land, but dropped dead sometime after entering his land, then he may have a case. Case law:
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Yes if you were poaching. John
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Came as a bit of a shock to me as well. Have a look in "Fair Game" the law of country sports and the protection of wildlife (ISBN 0720717345), ownership of wild game (or deer) can only be achieved after death and only by the person who killed the game. A wild deer is just that, wild with no owner. If YOU kill it or reduce it to possession, YOU own it, no matter where the animal dies. Now it becomes complex, with regards to the circumstances of the animals demise. Extracted from the book (adapted slightly with (a)/( & You) : Example : Land (a) is you legal shooting ground. La
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Three examples: 1) The OP pursues a deer from his legal permission on to a neighbours farm where he has no legal permission, shoots and kills the deer the deer belongs to the OP and not either landowner. 2) The OP shot a deer on his legal permission, the deer ran on to the neighbours farm alive, if the OP was to follow up on the deer he would be committing a poaching offence, but after he had killed the deer the deer would still belong to the OP. 3) If the OP shot the deer on his legal permission, the deer ran and died on the neighbours farm as a direct result of the OP's shot ta
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I presume that you are asking where you would stand legally if you shot a deer which ran and died on to an adjacent farm where you had no permission to be or shoot on. As long as you shot the deer on land where you did have permission then as long as you didn't take your rifle with you the only crime you would commit would be trespass which is a civil offence, you would have reduced the deer to 'possession' and the deer would belong to you. If the land owner would not give you the deer back, then the land owner would be guilty of theft. John
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I don't know much about politics but what I do know is that fuel now costs £1.20 a litre. Two years ago, Mrs H_Z & I used to be able to go to Tesco and spend £50 for a weeks shopping,now it cost us £75 for a weeks shopping. Labour are 'anti' countryside period, we all know that. They also like to wrap the whole world up in cotton wool just to make sure we don't bump. More and more of my taxes go to people who can only just manage a few words of English. There are redundancies all over the place. Massive drug problems in most areas. Prisons are full to the brim. Hunting with dogs is all
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The BASC backed a lead ban on Wildfowling and wetland shooting which was based on no real scientific evidence to support claims that wading birds were picking up lead shot. The BASC are also backing a lead ban on stalking bullets, again with no real evidence to support the ban. Why would it come as a surprise if the BASC backed a total lead ban John
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As the saying goes...death & taxes!! Shame there isn't a box for "coalition" that way they could spend their days p!$$!ng each other off instead of me. John
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As already said, Gloria for wet spray & DR5 for wasp nests both are more or less industry standard. PM to follow. John
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When we had a vas hob, this was always in the back of my mind. A friend did ask me if I knew anyone with a vas hob and I said no, simply based on good stockmanship and the fact that I didn't want to risk the health of my business of ferrets. Take it from someone who has had one ferret drop after another, it's not a pleasant thing to happen and if I am to be honest the vets that we have used for our ferrets over the years are less than knowledgeable. This is most certainly turning out to be a very interesting thread indeed, I had never heard of ECE. I would say that the risks of an STD would be
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I think we will get another jill or two this season. I was lucky to get a very nice hob from mike1458 on here, now named co-co (the hob not mike). I think he will visit the vet for a vas op next month as I'm recovering from our holiday expenditure and have a sneaky plan to buy a shotgun if my mate passes it by on Sunday. John
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100% agree with you Kay. When I had my load then the vasectomized hob was worth it's weight in gold. As you say, he kept the jills in check and saved plenty of vets bills. One problem I did have was with a castrated hob, the vasectomized hob would constantly try to have his way with the poor boy. However, I honestly believe all things taken in to account the OP really needs to get her Jills to vet and get a jill jab sorted, pronto. John
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I am amazed at the negative reaction to the Jill jab. I have to be honest and say that I don't have a mass of experience having only owned ferrets since 1999 but have never ever had any problems with the Jill jab but on the other hand I don't mind paying for the jill jab. A two second injection and bob's your uncle. I have to be honest and say that in the days of our vasectomized hob I didn't have to worry or mess around in the vets, but back then I owned seven jills and it would have bankrupted me. I would be interested to hear what has made people so negative towards the jill jab, have they
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One of my clients is paying the game dealer £2.50 per pigeon breast!!! and £100 for a tenderloin of venison. John
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Hi Hannah, I've used the Jill jab all my jills for years and have never had any problems at all, obviously you wouldn't take them for the jill jab until they come in to season. The jab will last the whole season, in some rare occasions the jill may come in to season again late September but on the whole the jill jab is the most effective way if you don't wish to breed. You can also get an implant now, much like the Human contraceptive implant. This has a few additional benefits and helps with adrenal disease, and will also prevent adrenal disease in ferrets. We used to have a vasectomized hob
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Why not just get them the Jill jab? The PDSA will do the jabs for as little as £3 or a donation. The problem with using a vasectomized Hob is that the Jills still have a sore neck and still get thrown around the hutch for a week or so. Just seems easier to get the jill jab to my mind. John
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Have you tried a live catch trap baited with a raw egg ? John
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Many birds use UV light as an attractant, this is very true of flocking birds such as Pigeons. The white feathers on the bird reflect UV light (white is the best at doing this). So it follows, if you can make the white on your decoys reflect high levels of UV, birds from afar will spot the decoys and come in to the pattern. UV pens can be purchased almost any where these days and are used to detect forged notes. John
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I used acrylic white paint and mixed in net curtain whitener (VERY VERY UV reflective) and had some excellent results last harvest. John
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Yes often. The law is complicated, even with a lease the landowner still has the legal obligation to control pests. I paid a solicitor £600 to draw up an Iron clad lease agreement that I can use across the board, I just type the date, names, addresses on to word and print off a copy and even then it's worth what your willing to pay in court costs! The best advice I can give is that you need to look at how much investment you will be putting in to your shoot (Time & money), if it's a lot then get a proper lease drawn up because if the landowner pulls out, you will lose everything
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We will see a lead ban start in August of this year on certain estates, backed by the BASC & RSPB. From what friends have told me non-toxic bullets are not half bad but if these things do start to take hold, then it's a massive change for us all. IIRC tests were done in Canada (?), meat was tested and tests were done on pigs (?), again I don't know all the info but the whole topic is centred around Venison entering the food chain and Raptors with the BASC jumping on the back of the waggon yet again. John
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?????? Not sure if you are disagreeing with me or suprised that the BASC are not the best orginisation to support stalkers needs. I will admit to being privi to only a small amount of information on the lead ban but from what I do know the RSPB & BASC have both moved to support the use of non-lead bullets for stalking deer due to very small amounts of lead contamination in venison, so in fact I doubt based on their stance they would support the use of high frag bullets (at a high level of managment). For a change even the Gov have stepped back and requested MUCH more information. The B
