markm Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 353 if i done it right...... im sure markm will put me right if i misjudged it, after all he is our lord and protector.... shaun your about right. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Mule Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 (edited) Spot on - there's sod all point bragging about having X thousand acres, when actually you visit it once a week for a bit of fair weather shooting, the farmer spends a fortune on pigeon mitigation in your absence, and you contain your shooting to a few select areas on the holding. I've reduced my permission down to 460 acres. I know every square inch of it almost intimately, and patrol it with great enthusiasm. I had permission on 6,000 acres, and found the effort it took to do a decent job of vermin control pretty detrimental to my social and family life. That website is not accurate - not even remotely. I use top-end digital mapping and GIS programmes every day, and unless it feeds off current Ordnance Survey data (or other reputable source), it's just misleading. Try this one, I think it's more accurate. Magic Put in Great Britain as the topic and use common sense for the rest. Once you are in, the area calculation is the ruler with a dotted circle above it. You can easily change the scale at the bottom right to get in silly close if you want to, too. Edit: I just re-read "I use top-end digital mapping and GIS programmes every day". You don't really need that link do you :blink: :blink: Edited October 16, 2009 by Alpha Mule Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 Edit:I just re-read "I use top-end digital mapping and GIS programmes every day". You don't really need that link do you :blink: :blink: Nope, I don't, but thank you - I do use MAGIC a fair bit, although it is a little unwieldy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud9 Posted October 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Spot on - there's sod all point bragging about having X thousand acres, when actually you visit it once a week for a bit of fair weather shooting, the farmer spends a fortune on pigeon mitigation in your absence, and you contain your shooting to a few select areas on the holding. I've reduced my permission down to 460 acres. I know every square inch of it almost intimately, and patrol it with great enthusiasm. I had permission on 6,000 acres, and found the effort it took to do a decent job of vermin control pretty detrimental to my social and family life. That website is not accurate - not even remotely. I use top-end digital mapping and GIS programmes every day, and unless it feeds off current Ordnance Survey data (or other reputable source), it's just misleading. this topic was not about braggin who has more it was ment to be as a whole we all add to the running total as for it not being accurate its alot better than those of us who guess by eye also my total using the site was only 8 acers out to what is on paper so its not that far out there far Not misleading also it was a bit of fun for us all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 I've been trying to work out how many maple trees I've got on my permissions - am I going wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted October 18, 2009 Report Share Posted October 18, 2009 Acres owned or acres shot over? Can't stand spectator sports. Buy a grouse moor and have a go yourself, eh Baldrick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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