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You can shoot whilst standing on a public footpath, if the path is on your permission.

 

You commit an offence if you shoot within 50 feet of the centre of a public highway (defined in law as the public have a right to travel along there in motor vehicles), if by so shooting, you cause unreasonable fear, distress or inconvenience to the highway users.

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BASC advises that discretion be used where shooting needs to take place and where a public right of way exists. All persons participating in any shooting activity must recognise that users of public rights of way have the right to pass and repass. One should refrain from shooting when a right of way is being used

 

 

copied and pasted that from the basc definiation of the rule, last year I was shooting on a rape field public footpath directly in front of me 150 yards away, (measured distance with google earth) each time I saw someone walking down the path I put the gun down and let them pass once they left the field carried on, until I got a phone call from the local firearms chief, saying he had a call from one of the footpath users, and had sent 2 officers to check my car parked at the gate to the field they got all my details from the reg plate name and sgc details phone number, issuing police force etc on the national database I told him that I stopped shooting when I saw anyone on the path until they left the field, he just said no report of any dangerous shots just that they had heard gunfire as they left the field was told to carry on but ring them before I shot that field again in future and that was it.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Brilliant thanks for all your help. The BASC page explains it well, just wanted clarification as the farmer just wanted to check that me being near a footpath was ok. Where I will position myself next time I will have a good view of the footpath so will be able to stop if I see anyone.

always a good idea to have a couple of laminated signs made up to position either side of where your shooting, say 40yds along the path, warning people the pest control is being carried out,

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Dependant on which part of the World you are in dictates how wary you need to be, these clowns do not always stick to footpaths.

 

I had a woman on a horse come riding through my decoy pattern shouting raaaa , at the decoys , as funny as her face was when she realised , that they were dead.. i got out and gave her a tellin off at the dangers of riding through s decoy pattern on a field were she had no permision to be on . Some people just are not rite in the head . Just to add you can shoot off a foot path . Atb ezi.

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