Back up at the shoot

[Sausagedog 7,381]

None native or not is there any evidence of harm? Compared to grey squirrels for instance that plenty evidence of harm and also the RSPCA relocate....illegally.

Was not the rabbit introduced .

 

[FOXHUNTER 5,020]

8 minutes ago, Sausagedog said:

 

Was not the rabbit introduced .

 

Introduced by the Romans in the 12th century. 

[BenBhoy 4,706]

1 hour ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Introduced by the Romans in the 12th century. 

I always thought it was the Normans 

[BenBhoy 4,706]

1 hour ago, Sausagedog said:

None native or not is there any evidence of harm?

As ever mate, that all depends who you ask. I read few weeks ago some 'scientists' claiming pheasants are going to cause extinction of the adder!! 

[Sausagedog 7,381]

7 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

I always thought it was the Normans 

Didn't the Norman's bring fallow deer?

[Sausagedog 7,381]

7 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

As ever mate, that all depends who you ask. I read few weeks ago some 'scientists' claiming pheasants are going to cause extinction of the adder!! 

Oh well that's it then shoot the lot, we cant be having that now can we.

Hold on. Have these scientists ruled out modern farming practices! Are these  scientists the same type of scientists that developed pesticides associated with the decline of wild bees? That brought about mad cow disease? Hold the phone....

[Stavross 13,711]

Evidence has never bothered the likes of wild justice any little stick they can beat the shooting industry with, they will use, they raise vast amounts of money purely to challenge the government on wildlife and farming policies, nobody in our corner can match them and sadly money talks in this world and I’m in no doubt there’s more of their madness to come

Edited November 3, 2020 by Stavross

[shovel leaner 7,648]

There’s one species that’s non native in this country that needs a proper cull ...., and it’s arriving in dinghies down in Kent

[shovel leaner 7,648]

I was speaking to a keeper on a commercial shoot a minute ago about the lockdown and one of the problems he mentioned he could be facing is disease. Normally the birds are being moved around and their numbers thinned out. November can be a wet and mild month . There could be a real problem with micro plasma and respiratory diseases. 
          I was also talking to a fairly high ranking police officer who shoots with us and he knew this lockdown was coming days before we did , he was telling me that as far as he knows the lockdown “will” end on December 2nd and thereafter a tier system . Looks like a busy December and January for game shoots , keep your diary clear , I foresee some bargains going on guns on pegs !!

[BenBhoy 4,706]

On 31/10/2020 at 17:56, Stavross said:

https://apple.news/A_VRngQsrQJmb9lHP07bamA

This stuff boils my piss, more hoops to jump through 

https://www.gwct.org.uk/blogs/news/2020/november/wild-justice-outmanoeuvred-by-defra-on-gamebird-releasing/?utm_source=All+Contacts&utm_campaign=f49675cc4a-Mem-NL-Eng031120&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dd843c5cb6-f49675cc4a-27467671&mc_cid=f49675cc4a&mc_eid=10c03a2993

[Stavross 13,711]

2 hours ago, shovel leaner said:

I was speaking to a keeper on a commercial shoot a minute ago about the lockdown and one of the problems he mentioned he could be facing is disease. Normally the birds are being moved around and their numbers thinned out. November can be a wet and mild month . There could be a real problem with micro plasma and respiratory diseases. 
          I was also talking to a fairly high ranking police officer who shoots with us and he knew this lockdown was coming days before we did , he was telling me that as far as he knows the lockdown “will” end on December 2nd and thereafter a tier system . Looks like a busy December and January for game shoots , keep your diary clear , I foresee some bargains going on guns on pegs !!

I’ve just been speaking to someone who said something very similar, she said Boris will have to commit to the 2nd of December and to go back on the tier system to get the 4 week lockdown passed in the House of Commons 

[Sausagedog 7,381]

To be honest I didn't need a Bobby to tell me a lockdown was on the cards, it was obvious! No offense intended but observing drunken louts gives it away a bit.

[shovel leaner 7,648]

27 minutes ago, Sausagedog said:

To be honest I didn't need a Bobby to tell me a lockdown was on the cards, it was obvious! No offense intended but observing drunken louts gives it away a bit.

No offence taken . I’m tucked away in my own little world down here .

[BenBhoy 4,706]

12 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

No offence taken . I’m tucked away in my own little world down here .

Best place to be mate. My missus moans at me for being grumpy & never talking to other people etc but i told her, if everyone was as antisocial as me then we wouldn't be in this mess!! 

[shovel leaner 7,648]

43 minutes ago, BenBhoy said:

Best place to be mate. My missus moans at me for being grumpy & never talking to other people etc but i told her, if everyone was as antisocial as me then we wouldn't be in this mess!! 

Me too , I was read the riot act on Sunday by the wife  , my youngest daughter who is 25 brought her boyfriend home for Sunday dinner . It’s only the second boyfriend she had brought home and she seems keen , and I’m keen for her to move out , so I behaved myself, made a bit of small talk , tried to sound interested in his job ? , good grief. Nobody told me parenting was this hard .