Stavross 13,711 Posted October 19, 2018 Report Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) So I’ve just had a phone call from the lady who owns the land we rent for our shoot, apparently the keeper off next doors shoot has just been seen dogging birds off our field, now I’m not saying these are all our birds and I know they wander a bit and we get some of there’s and they get some of ours, that’s just how it is, but to dog them on land that is not yours is just taking the piss, I now have to go and explain to him that he’s in the wrong and how would he like it if I go and push his wood through that’s on our boundary, I feel I might also have to have a word with the lad they rent there shoot from as he farms our shoots land and we I do a bit of rabbit control for him, maybe he can also point out the errors in this chancers ways Edited October 19, 2018 by Stavross Quote Link to post
shovel leaner 7,648 Posted October 19, 2018 Report Share Posted October 19, 2018 It’s a problem that is experienced by shoots that neighbor each other. It’s more than a bit cheeky on his part and is to my mind an indication of desperation. If the birds don’t know where home is now they never will . I would have a word with him first . I’ve had it with farmers who put feeders out to pull my birds and don’t put any down , they are millionaires and try to get a bit of cheap shooting, that really boils my piss . They soon found it was expensive replacing their feeders and would probably be cheaper to buy a day . Keep an eye on it and don’t go in guns blazing, I always find it’s better to have a chat . 1 Quote Link to post
smithie 2,424 Posted October 19, 2018 Report Share Posted October 19, 2018 Can you not just push em back? He takes yours and you push em back he might end up with less than he started with Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,711 Posted October 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 10 hours ago, shovel leaner said: It’s a problem that is experienced by shoots that neighbor each other. It’s more than a bit cheeky on his part and is to my mind an indication of desperation. If the birds don’t know where home is now they never will . I would have a word with him first . I’ve had it with farmers who put feeders out to pull my birds and don’t put any down , they are millionaires and try to get a bit of cheap shooting, that really boils my piss . They soon found it was expensive replacing their feeders and would probably be cheaper to buy a day . Keep an eye on it and don’t go in guns blazing, I always find it’s better to have a chat . It’s a problem that we have never had before as it’s an agreement between the two shoots that we stay off each other’s shoot, we both have to walk through each other’s land to get to a couple of drives, now this chap is on his first season with next door, so I will take it that he doesn’t understand the rules, the shoot captain is going to go and have a word today as he said he is more diplomatic than me, I don’t know what he means by that 1 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,711 Posted October 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 9 hours ago, smithie said: Can you not just push em back? He takes yours and you push em back he might end up with less than he started with We could go on forever tit for tat, pushing each other’s birds about, what bothers me is if he is doing it the night before a shoot day or on the morning, we tend to shoot on different days so we are not falling over each other and the birds are not getting it from all angles also after the day hopefully the birds will wander back home if we shoot different days Quote Link to post
riohog 5,621 Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 20 minutes ago, Stavross said: It’s a problem that we have never had before as it’s an agreement between the two shoots that we stay off each other’s shoot, we both have to walk through each other’s land to get to a couple of drives, now this chap is on his first season with next door, so I will take it that he doesn’t understand the rules, the shoot captain is going to go and have a word today as he said he is more diplomatic than me, I don’t know what he means by that he knows full well what he is doing .tell him to stop doing it ,he will say they are my birds ,, you say fk off they are on my land my birds . 2 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,711 Posted October 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 11 minutes ago, riohog said: he knows full well what he is doing .tell him to stop doing it ,he will say they are my birds ,, you say fk off they are on my land my birds . I have no doubt he knows what he is doing and he needs to stop it. The lad that owns there land will not be happy with him as the last thing he wants is the shoot upsetting our landlady with him farming the land 1 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,711 Posted October 27, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2018 (edited) Well the farmer who owns the land that next doors shoot is on has had a word with the keeper and told him he has to stay off our land and had to go and apologise to the lady who we rent from, so he has been to see her, apologised and proceeded to tell her he was moving them off her field because they were pulling all the wheat out, now this lady has been farming for over 50 years, so she verbally ripped him a new one, he really should of asked his landlord who she is instead of just assuming she was just a silly old woman Edited October 27, 2018 by Stavross 3 2 Quote Link to post
Qbgrey 3,968 Posted October 29, 2018 Report Share Posted October 29, 2018 Ah the joys of the shooters,ive never met many shooters who like other shooters.mostly a greedy,jealous bunch ive found. 5 1 Quote Link to post
Deker 3,450 Posted October 30, 2018 Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 (edited) This sort of situation is often a bit of an issue. Just the same you don't go running after your birds all over the countryside, you work to keep them on your drives, do your job well and you will attract other birds as well, not lose them! Edited October 30, 2018 by Deker 1 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,711 Posted October 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2018 It just goes to show he hasn’t done a very good job this year as a lot of his have made their way into the back drive on our shoot, that may be the first drive on Saturday Quote Link to post
Greyman 25,151 Posted October 31, 2018 Report Share Posted October 31, 2018 19 hours ago, Stavross said: It just goes to show he hasn’t done a very good job this year as a lot of his have made their way into the back drive on our shoot, that may be the first drive on Saturday I have a landfill site near me, must be ten miles from any shoot and it's full of the things if he,s stuck, I even put a load of poult,s up in there last week when I was putting some cameras in, 1 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,711 Posted October 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2018 3 hours ago, Greyman said: I have a landfill site near me, must be ten miles from any shoot and it's full of the things if he,s stuck, I even put a load of poult,s up in there last week when I was putting some cameras in, Ha ha, I’ll let him know, if I tell him he will probably say they are his and they have just wandered a bit further Quote Link to post
Born Hunter 17,622 Posted November 1, 2018 Report Share Posted November 1, 2018 On 19/10/2018 at 21:52, shovel leaner said: It’s a problem that is experienced by shoots that neighbor each other. It’s more than a bit cheeky on his part and is to my mind an indication of desperation. If the birds don’t know where home is now they never will Ain't that kinda a missed point here. Smashing a spaniel through a boundary hedge just sends everyone's birds home, not so much 'rehome' them. Right? I know it's cheeky but if it is just a boundary then frankly it's free dogging in. LOL Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,711 Posted November 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2018 It wasn’t just boundaries, what annoyed the lady that owns the land is he was half way up the field and he’s not ment to be on there, he should know that this time of year his birds will make there own way back Quote Link to post
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