stalking down near oxford

[burnie69 376]

[i am not great on geography but i know its near Woburn Abby. After traveling down that far if i dont see one it will not be for the lack of trying .

:11: :11: :11: fcek me only a hour away then :11:

[J Darcy 5,871]

[i am not great on geography but i know its near Woburn Abby. After traveling down that far if i dont see one it will not be for the lack of trying .

trust me....woburn isnt even in oxfordshire matey...its about 45 mins drive away.. , but yes there are CWD down there....good luck and please let us know whow you go on

[Guest Nightwalker]

I know the area very well and there are definitely no CWD there at the moment.

 

Funny what turns people; - ten or twelve years back I was invited out close to where you guys were, to help thin some munties out. The keeper chauffered me to a high seat in his pickup and told me to shoot any deer that walked past. I shot the first one walked into range but then thought, feck, I'm sat up in a tree, I didn't even walk here, I've done no active hunting at all, I've exercised no fieldcraft and I've not even been particularly quiet or still up here. I just couldn't see anything very interesting in it, so decided that was the end of high seats and me.

 

About the same time I used to do the foxes and rabbits on a place in a neighbouring county where the keeper controlled fallow deer by driving round and shooting them out of the window of his Hilux - I had the same feeling about this - it had novelty value the first time or two but that was the limit of it. I've got nothing against people shooting deer from high seats, but I just don't want to do it myself, it just doesn't seem like sport to me and It's no treat to me to help some landowner solve his pest control problems in this manner.

 

I told the keeper on the first place that if he wanted to see some proper sport I would bring a dog over and we could have ago at the munties together. Some good did come of this because he was curious to see a dog on a deer and after going out with me a couple of times he ended up getting one of his own.

[COMPO 54]

[i am not great on geography but i know its near Woburn Abby. After traveling down that far if i dont see one it will not be for the lack of trying .

trust me....woburn isnt even in oxfordshire matey...its about 45 mins drive away.. , but yes there are CWD down there....good luck and please let us know whow you go on

 

 

I live about 5 miles from Woburn :11:

 

No it aint in oxfordshire-its north Bedfordshire very near the border with Bucks, there are more munties than rabbits where i live,

 

please all bear in mind that in the 1960's a wall was blown over at Woburn and 12 muntjac escaped, from those 12 we now have muntjac all over the south east, i think the wild population is 35,000 or something

 

I used to beat on a shoot where after the pheasant season they would have a muntjac/vermin drive, beaters and guns walked in line with shotguns loaded with AAA :11:

 

The last one i went on they shot 27 , the beaters were offered what they wanted as were the guns, the rest went to a butcher on the estate

 

Here's one i removed to assist a farmer in June :11: