Pigeon Shooting Wanted South Wiltshire

[EMcC]

Gentlemen, Ladies (maybe :( )

I have been an active Deer Stalker for the last forty years and ran a pheasant shoot for twenty odd years.

I was, until recently, a member of a local Pheasant shoot where I also carried out Fox control.

I am an ex-soldier, ex-Police Officer and an ex-Range warden.

Now I am retired and no longer have access to Stalking (job related) and gave up the Pheasant Shoot due to lack of help and excessive vandalism, I am no longer a member of the local Pheasant shoot due to lack of funds.

I am a member of BDS and BASC so am covered for third Party Insurance, not needed it yet I might add.

From my history you can tell I am 'getting on a bit' but still don't want to vegetate.

Have all my own decoying kit, the knowledge and the ability to get there but nowhere to go.

Can anybody help, with either, crops to protect or to join a group protecting crops.

I live in the Amesbury area and know there are crops being devastated in my local area at the moment but the land owners are happy to have a group of pigeon shooters that can only visit at week-ends.

I am available all/most of the time and can be available at short notice if required, this can be long term or just the odd 'one of' if needed.

[EMcC]

Hi Guys,

I've been out and about today and am frustrated as ever.

There are pigeons everywhere, like I've not seen for years and not a shooter in sight, plenty of gas guns though.

I would have thought a volunteer shooter in a field would save the landowner some gas but they still insist they won't upset the shooters they already have.

I don't understand it at all, the shooters they have only come the odd week-end and the landowners seem happy with that.

[Catamong]

You need to go door knocking, offer to keep them off the rape "just for the day", you'll soon have more land than you can cope with.

 

Cat.

[pete k]

is aldbourne to far away from you

[EMcC]

catamong,

I know most/all of the local farmers and see them most days checking thier cattle of strip feed fences but it is their sons-in-laws or sons that are running the pigeon shooting with their old school chums.

Pete,

I don't know where Aldbourne is.

Eddy McC

[daft dog]

All,

 

If it makes any difference i have met EMcC and he is a genuine bloke who has probably forgotten more knowledge about most forms of shooting than i will probably ever know.

 

He has an abudance of experiance, and by the sounds of it plenty of time to spare helping farmers/landowners out...bennefits of being retired i guess .

 

EMcC, hope to catch up with you again in the future....maybe i'll get to have a look at that boot full of kit next time, see if there is anything i don't need but want anyway .

 

ATB

 

Jim

Edited February 5, 2010 by daft dog

[EMcC]

Gentlemen, Ladies (maybe )

I have been an active Deer Stalker for the last forty years and ran a pheasant shoot for twenty odd years.

I was, until recently, a member of a local Pheasant shoot where I also carried out Fox control.

I am an ex-soldier, ex-Police Officer and an ex-Range warden.

Now I am retired and no longer have access to Stalking (job related) and gave up the Pheasant Shoot due to lack of help and excessive vandalism, I am no longer a member of the local Pheasant shoot due to lack of funds.

I am a member of BDS and BASC so am covered for third Party Insurance, not needed it yet I might add.

From my history you can tell I am 'getting on a bit' but still don't want to vegetate.

Have all my own decoying kit, the knowledge and the ability to get there but nowhere to go.

Can anybody help, with either, crops to protect or to join a group protecting crops.

I live in the Amesbury area and know there are crops being devastated in my local area at the moment but the land owners are happy to have a group of pigeon shooters that can only visit at week-ends.

I am available all/most of the time and can be available at short notice if required, this can be long term or just the odd 'one of' if needed.

I am still looking and the pigeons are getting fatter and fatter but still only being shot at week-end

I have seen them on early rape and now they are on up coming peas, very frustrating.

I have found out that some of the fields local to me are under the pigeon control of a Pigeon Guide that lives about fifty miles away and only charges £120 a day and you don't get to keep the pigeons

[EMcC]

I am still looking and hoping but have not been lucky yet.

I have found that pigeon shooting is now getting nearly as expensive as pheasant shooting and find that rather nauseating.

I can remember when Farmers gave me cartridges to shoot the pigeons but now they have subsidies they don't seem to be bothered.

They still put out gas guns and scarers during the week (which after a while the birds ignore) and then entertain pigeon shooters at the week ends only.

[Wiltsmark]

Why did'nt you take up Pete k's offer at Aldbourne its just outside Marlborough.

[EMcC]

Why did'nt you take up Pete k's offer at Aldbourne its just outside Marlborough.

 

Pete didn't answer me when I asked where Aldbourne was and as his location in his avater is given as Ruislip I assumed it was somewhere near him.

Marleborough isn't that far and from me and I'd have loved to have taken up the offer if I'd known where it was.

Years ago, late seventies and early eighties, I used to shoot up near Marleborough, from Burbage across to Crofton and some other smal places coming back towards Chute but have never heard of Aldbourne.

Those farms were taken over by a retired Squadron Leader that lived in Chute Standen and another chap called Gale that lived that way.

It got that whenever I rang up they had either been there the day before or were coming the day I intended to go so I was put off. I felt that I was making a nuisance of myself.

Then I was told by the land owners that they had given my name and No to the others and they would ring me when I was wanted but they never did.

Perhaps Pete changed his mind or got somebody else.

Edited April 25, 2010 by EMcC

[EMcC]

Why did'nt you take up Pete k's offer at Aldbourne its just outside Marlborough.

 

I've since PM'd Pete but had no reply, perhaps he's on holiday.

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed and hoping.

[docholiday]

Can I just add that EMC is a good man and would be an asset to any shooting group bringing a large amount of knowledge and experience, good luck EMC hope somebody turns up trumps for you soon, sorry we havnt been able to get otgether for a stalk yet, have some pigeon shooting in Dorset when rape is cut if you fancy a drive

doc

[EMcC]

Hi Doc,

Yes please, I'll remind you at the first sign of Rape being cut !!!!!

Thanks,

Eddy McC

[daft dog]

Hi Doc,

Yes please, I'll remind you at the first sign of Rape being cut !!!!!

Thanks,

Eddy McC

 

You don't need any extra help do you....

 

DD

[EMcC]

Well Well Well, they say 'what goes round comes round' or something like that that.

I was at the local river (Avon) last Wednesday with my dog and a chap drove up and started to chat.

After a while he asked if I was till shooting and if so where, I looked at him a bit askance and he then said'you don't remember me do you' to which I replied 'no I'm afraid not'

It turns out twenty seven years ago, when I had most of the shooting in this area, I gave some rabbiting and pigeon shooting to a young lad that had just taken it up - it was him !!!

Since then he had been away to study at college and was now back and had been living in the area for ten years with a job as a Forester.

He had no Deer Stalking he could offer me but after a quick 'phone call he had arranged for me to meet him the next day for him to show me the land I could visit whenever I wanted to, as the pigeons and Rooks were ruining the corn.

I went out for three hours Friday, used forty seven cartridges, shot twenty six pigeon and four crows, the first dozen cartridges were used to get used to a shotgun, having not used it since last pheasant season.

Went again today for two and a half hours, used thirty nine cartridges and shot thirty more pigeons and four more crows.

I am now more than happy with my shooting opportunity but my wife is not too happy at being housebound

[EMcC]

Unfortunately this didn't last.

I was only wanted until they cut the corn and they ploughed the stubble in within days.

Two years have passed, I have kept an eye on the farm but not been offered any more shooting.

It turns out the two sons have now started a 'Family pheasant shoot' and with the help of relatives found they do not need any outside help.

So if anybody wants an extra gun to shoot from the opposite side of the field somewhere, get in touch and I'd be most grateful.

[BRAD1927]

Well Well Well, they say 'what goes round comes round' or something like that that.

I was at the local river (Avon) last Wednesday with my dog and a chap drove up and started to chat.

After a while he asked if I was till shooting and if so where, I looked at him a bit askance and he then said'you don't remember me do you' to which I replied 'no I'm afraid not'

It turns out twenty seven years ago, when I had most of the shooting in this area, I gave some rabbiting and pigeon shooting to a young lad that had just taken it up - it was him !!!

Since then he had been away to study at college and was now back and had been living in the area for ten years with a job as a Forester.

He had no Deer Stalking he could offer me but after a quick 'phone call he had arranged for me to meet him the next day for him to show me the land I could visit whenever I wanted to, as the pigeons and Rooks were ruining the corn.

I went out for three hours Friday, used forty seven cartridges, shot twenty six pigeon and four crows, the first dozen cartridges were used to get used to a shotgun, having not used it since last pheasant season.

Went again today for two and a half hours, used thirty nine cartridges and shot thirty more pigeons and four more crows.

I am now more than happy with my shooting opportunity but my wife is not too happy at being housebound

I sympathise with what your saying as we probably been knocking on the same doors .

 

If your really struggling still speak to Kieth again its got to be better than nothing

 

All the best

 

Brad

Edited June 25, 2012 by BRAD1927