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  1. Buzzards Killing Ospreys!!

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    Up near we're I stayed there was a buzzard caught on a web cam taking a young osprey off the nest at a fishing complex, they (rspb) said it was a one off, but go fu ck me its only gone and happened again this year, the same nest, caught on the same web cam..

    When will the powers to be open there eyes and do something about it!!!!!!!

    It's on the sga page if u want a look, I'd put the link up but on the phone.

  3. Best Chippy In Britain?

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    One in Anstruther fife's supposed to have won the award for the best in Britain Seven and a half quid a go , more to sit in and get a slice of bread and a cuppa :laugh:

    the bay stonehaven Aberdeenshire won it...

    Indeed it did stig, lived up there a few years ago, foods spot on, but I don't suggest you sit outside the shop to eat them if the winds out the east, unless you want a cracked window from the sea throwing stones over the wall:-(

  21. Great Huntsmen

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    No iv never hunted with him but a 2 folk I know well & who opinions I trust, did , but I guess that's there opinion & that may differ from others, but there word is good enough for me.

    Your right enough about the long suffering & very understanding wives of hunt staff, especially those that don't hunt.

  22. Great Huntsmen

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    Huntsman that make too much noise drawing a cover to me shows he either likes the sound of his own voice or his charges need encouraging to draw, yes its fine sometimes if scents bad or it's late on in a blank day, but a good pack should be itching to get to the cover to find there trail & find it on there own, unless there that sharp that the trail layer needs waking up before he gets chopped..Like wise a huntsman that's in a hurry to lift there heads at a check irritates me, for a pack to become quick at correcting at a check they need to do it on there own or they won't learn a thing,A good huntsman should have 100% trust & faith in his pack on all but the worst of days, because the ground work has already been done, nothing or nobody can hunt a line better than a good pack of hounds, don't interfere, leave them to do what there bred for.Another thing that can make or break a huntsman is the staff he has around him.A sure sign of a bad one is one that's alway hoping his phone or radio will find a trail for him..The love of the fox & his cunning should also be up there..Everyone's views are different, there's a name mentioned on here who to me is nothing but a piss head that got carried by his staff & the name he somehow made for himself..

    I was chatting to a guy yesterday and we were talking about the importance of a good whip . A good whip can surely make a bad huntsman look a lot better. Do you all think good whips make better huntsmen ? I know, I know ,Whats with all the question but the mrs wont talk about hunting anymore so i'm stuck with you lot :laugh:

    Yep they certainly can, like wise a poor whip can make himself, the huntsman & the hounds look bad. A whips job is to be every where & to do everything all at once, I never envy the poor feckers, but those that keep there eyes and ears open & there mouth shut will be on there way to make a good huntsman one day..

     

    Your mrs won't talk about hunting?? Scrap her in for a better model mate :-)

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  23. Great Huntsmen

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    Huntsman that make too much noise drawing a cover to me shows he either likes the sound of his own voice or his charges need encouraging to draw, yes its fine sometimes if scents bad or it's late on in a blank day, but a good pack should be itching to get to the cover to find there trail & find it on there own, unless there that sharp that the trail layer needs waking up before he gets chopped..

    Like wise a huntsman that's in a hurry to lift there heads at a check irritates me, for a pack to become quick at correcting at a check they need to do it on there own or they won't learn a thing,

    A good huntsman should have 100% trust & faith in his pack on all but the worst of days, because the ground work has already been done, nothing or nobody can hunt a line better than a good pack of hounds, don't interfere, leave them to do what there bred for.

    Another thing that can make or break a huntsman is the staff he has around him.

    A sure sign of a bad one is one that's alway hoping his phone or radio will find a trail for him..

     

    The love of the fox & his cunning should also be up there..

     

    Everyone's views are different, there's a name mentioned on here who to me is nothing but a piss head that got carried by his staff & the name he somehow made for himself..

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  24. Sea Eagles Nest ... Was It You Lab ???

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    I suspect that the felling contractor had a HUGE oh shit moment after seeing that tree fall. I doubt very much it was a deliberate act, the estate are distancing themselves big style before the BBC hang them. As for the arguments above, I`m firmly on the fence here,, can see the shoots issues, I am involved with a large commercial shoot and know the havoc Bop`s cause but still love to see them,, (Buzzards aside that is,, b*****ds !!)

    So the biggest argument towards pheasant shooting is that if it disappeared the countryside as we know it would diminish. Scary thought. So far in this thread we discovered from a REAL working gamekeeper that 90% of the countries keepers have packed up leaving only 5000. That's 45,000 keepers not there. Have you noticed much difference to the countryside with there absence? I haven't. Again someone else said that a shoot he knows puts down 3500 birds and 1000 of them get taken by BOP. that's almost a third of them. A large amount I'm sure you'll agree. And yet they survive with this enormous loss. So a 'shoot' can effectively afford to lose a third of its birds and still survive..... Leave the magnificent and majestic birds alone, there's plenty of fat useless birds for everyone.

    That's because instead of 6 - 10 keepers on a estate they now only have 1 or 2 working the same ground.. It's a fact, un keepered land goes to feck!!It's what makes this site what it is, folk trying to argue the toss about things they simply know nothing about :-)
    It's no wonder keepers want to blame everything including BOP for losses when it took 10 keepers to do the job of 1. What a strange industry it is. Wanting to kill all predatory wildlife so fat gunmen can share each others land and shoot pet birds for free. It really is a f****d up sport.

    Your digging a bigger hole here bud. Less keepers because less birds..........lots of reasons why shoots demise and not being able to deal with BOP's are one of them.... :thumbs:
    You know me lab, I'm only killing time till I'm out a here at 1 o'clock :laugh:

    I know what your fecking doing............. :censored::censored::laugh:
    You know I love you shooters really :D ok, joking aside, I know the land needs keepers etc but I also know if left to their own devices the keeper would kill every predator that's a threat bar maybe a very few. It's ok saying they'd strike a balance but they wouldn't. The scales would fall very heavily towards the survival of the pheasant and why not, it's there livelihood. Personally I don't want more pheasants about, f*****g enough of them as there is :)

    Foxes, stoats, weasels, crows, rats, rabbits all things that keepers are allowed legally to kill and theres still thousands of them. Why do you think that if we were allowed to kill BOP's that they would suddenly become extinct? It clear for everyone to see that BOP numbers are increasing...the Buzzard at a whore of a rate. A keepers job is to look after pheasants first and foremost......i cant see many wanting to spend any spare minute they have on wiping out BOP's.........simply shooting ones that are a problem is the answer. Why a bird with a hook beak gets any special treatment is beyond me..................flying f*****g badgers min!!!
    Lot easier to shoot, trap and poison a BOP than all you mentioned mate. You say only the problem ones should be shot, that'll be the ones on the estates then. I agree buzzards are getting more but its only cos you remember seeing them cos they are worth looking at. Compared to rooks, crows, magpies, birds that cause real problems, they are practically non existent.

    :-) :-) :-) go fish else where ya fanny !! I'm guessing your fishing for a bite as I really don't think your this daft

  25. Sea Eagles Nest ... Was It You Lab ???

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    I suspect that the felling contractor had a HUGE oh shit moment after seeing that tree fall. I doubt very much it was a deliberate act, the estate are distancing themselves big style before the BBC hang them.

     

    As for the arguments above, I`m firmly on the fence here,, can see the shoots issues, I am involved with a large commercial shoot and know the havoc Bop`s cause but still love to see them,, (Buzzards aside that is,, b*****ds !!)

    So the biggest argument towards pheasant shooting is that if it disappeared the countryside as we know it would diminish. Scary thought. So far in this thread we discovered from a REAL working gamekeeper that 90% of the countries keepers have packed up leaving only 5000. That's 45,000 keepers not there. Have you noticed much difference to the countryside with there absence? I haven't. Again someone else said that a shoot he knows puts down 3500 birds and 1000 of them get taken by BOP. that's almost a third of them. A large amount I'm sure you'll agree. And yet they survive with this enormous loss. So a 'shoot' can effectively afford to lose a third of its birds and still survive..... Leave the magnificent and majestic birds alone, there's plenty of fat useless birds for everyone.

    That's because instead of 6 - 10 keepers on a estate they now only have 1 or 2 working the same ground.. It's a fact, un keepered land goes to feck!!

     

    It's what makes this site what it is, folk trying to argue the toss about things they simply know nothing about :-)

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