Shooting the neighbours pheaants

[got_the_eye_in]

I would expect to find my feeders filled with diesel one morning if that were me!

 

 

I agree!!!!

[sako751sg]

A lot depends on how you get on with the neighbours/keepers/estate.As a shooting man,if i see someone out for a bit of sport with the gun i look at him as a law abiding person enjoying his day.Too many keepers see a man with a gun on land next to his and think he has no right to be doing it.A prime example.I have about 300 acres that join an estate that puts down a considerable amount of birds.Every second Saturday i used to walk round it with the missus and the wee lad and wouldnt have thought about putting feeders down as i was delighted with what i had.One Saturday the scrawniest,weediest gob***** of a keeper drove onto my ground,(which he had no permission to do)drove in front of a loaded shooting gun,pulled up along side me and asked if i would make the gun safe!At the start i was friendly enough,although i laughed and told him no way was i making the gun safe after him driving in front of me.After a while,he asked if i had been shooting hen pheasants in his woods?On his words,i turned to the missus and said "lets go,end of conversation."He then asked why all the "attitude" and i tried to explain but he wasnt the sharpest tool in the box and somehow couldnt see why i would be a tad miffed.I asked if it was alright on their next driven day to drive my jeep in front of all his paying guns and ask every one of them if they had been shooting on my ground,but this didnt seem to compute either.After finishing the walk,i phoned the lad who has the ground to ask if it was ok to put feeders down,and he said no problem.The very next day i put feeders along every march on that permission,and have enjoyed shooting more of "his" pheasants than i ever would have if we hadnt crossed paths that day.Im not tarring all keepers with this brush,as i know many who are decent fellas who realise its not only estates that have land to shoot over,but the actions and words of this lad resulted in an action that wouldnt have came about otherwise.

[scolopax]

Not condoning the actions of the keeper, but you have to remember that his livelihood, and most likely his house, depends on him producing the goods for his employer. They can sometimes overreact but if its just words and not actions then whats the problem? As you already said you had enough pheasants without the feeders so what do you gain by putting feeders?

[al4x]

keepers usually over react but they do need to remember where their boundaries are. I've come accross them doing allsorts dogging in neighbours ground without permission, lamping foxes on quads on neighbouring land etc none of its right but a lot get away with it because neighbouring farmers don't want to fall out so it gets sorted quietly. That said there is a lot of give and take involved usually, I know a fewshoots where guns stand on neighbours ground for certain drives and they do the same on others where it suits the land. Its usually best to try and get on but when you do get a bust up with a keeper its best to watch your back, most are fairly petty at times