Dave-G Posted November 16, 2011 Report Share Posted November 16, 2011 Dammit, I've just had an email from my butchers saying they want me to double the amount of rabbits I supply them with from 15~20 per week to 30~40 as the outdoor markets they sell them at are doing very well at the moment. However - I temporarily lose access to most of my permissions during the game bird shooting season. I'm a little disapointed as last year when I took too many they made hints about freezer ones not being so good as fresh ones, and summer is not the best time for people to eat rabbit. I then started to dump some of them in the hedges - well over 100 at least. Now If I'd only left them to have babies... I'm a 6 night a week permanent nightshift worker and shoot from a 4x4 overnight on a Monday night/Tuesday morning. If anyone wants some company - or has a rabbit problem they can't manage within a reasonable distance please get in touch. I can produce references if required, and I have no interest whatsover in game birds. I am open to swapping accompanied winter times on someones permission in return for accompanied summer times on mine. Regretably I am no longer young or fit enough to walk the land with a rifle. This is what I do: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted November 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 If anyone within a fair distance of east Leic's can produce 40~50 cleaned out headshot bunnies over any the next few weeks I'm willing to pick them up for 75p each. That is half what I get for them and will help pay for my fuel to come and get them on a Monday or Tuesday morning provided they are freshly head-shot during that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joknob Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 dumping rabbits in hedges!you should loose all your shooting permissions,no sympathy. craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankeedoodlepigeon Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 dumping rabbits in hedges!you should loose all your shooting permissions,no sympathy. craig It is pest control first and foremost. It just happens you can eat them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyska Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 dumping rabbits in hedges!you should loose all your shooting permissions,no sympathy. craig Really? I've got better things to do than paunch up to 50 rabbits (some have far more than that) before getting up for work, they eat our crops, they get shot, I also dump them as I don't have a freezer the size of a barn. Wise up fella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee-stroud Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 willow game pay £1.20 frozen untouched Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joknob Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 Really? I've got better things to do than paunch up to 50 rabbits (some have far more than that) before getting up for work, they eat our crops, they get shot, I also dump them as I don't have a freezer the size of a barn. Wise up fella. a rabbit is the same as a goose or a pheasant,they provide your sport and should be respected and not dumped,its that lack of respect for you quarry that will get it all stopped.you owe it to them,so just think about it,dont be so lazy and you wise up!fella.craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devon Fox Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 Really? I've got better things to do than paunch up to 50 rabbits (some have far more than that) before getting up for work, they eat our crops, they get shot, I also dump them as I don't have a freezer the size of a barn. Wise up fella. Well said Kyska - its just unreal sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyska Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 (edited) a rabbit is the same as a goose or a pheasant,they provide your sport and should be respected and not dumped,its that lack of respect for you quarry that will get it all stopped.you owe it to them,so just think about it,dont be so lazy and you wise up!fella.craig OK Craig, you try and control pests on 1000's of acres of arable, rabbit, pigeon, fox, rats...its a job, its not a sport, I'd bet we lose more income from pest damage than you get paid, so, again wise up. I have air rifle guys who do a great job, and take their fare home, but when we have 1000's of pounds of damage on young wheat, barley and rape they get shot on mass...head shot, body shot either way and they get left. You can't start to think how much money we lose through pest damage. I owe nothing to them, I respect them with a clean dispatch be as anthropomophic as you like..as for sport, thats no justification for shooting birds. And don't tell me I'm lazy, you really have no idea. As for 'losing my permissions'....don't think so fella... Edited November 17, 2011 by kyska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richie223 Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 Dammit, I've just had an email from my butchers saying they want me to double the amount of rabbits I supply them with from 15~20 per week to 30~40 as the outdoor markets they sell them at are doing very well at the moment. However - I temporarily lose access to most of my permissions during the game bird shooting season. I'm a little disapointed as last year when I took too many they made hints about freezer ones not being so good as fresh ones, and summer is not the best time for people to eat rabbit. I then started to dump some of them in the hedges - well over 100 at least. Now If I'd only left them to have babies... I'm a 6 night a week permanent nightshift worker and shoot from a 4x4 overnight on a Monday night/Tuesday morning. If anyone wants some company - or has a rabbit problem they can't manage within a reasonable distance please get in touch. I can produce references if required, and I have no interest whatsover in game birds. I am open to swapping accompanied winter times on someones permission in return for accompanied summer times on mine. Regretably I am no longer young or fit enough to walk the land with a rifle. This is what I do: nice shooting dude.good vid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted November 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) a rabbit is the same as a goose or a pheasant,they provide your sport and should be respected and not dumped,its that lack of respect for you quarry that will get it all stopped.you owe it to them,so just think about it,dont be so lazy and you wise up!fella.craig You are of course entitled to your opinion, most of us know that Goose and Pheasant shooting are mostly done for sport but you relate sporting shots to rabbit? Yer talkin like a knobb - oh hang on.... :blink: During about 10 days access to a particular farm once a year between their crop harvest and drilling their seed for the next crop, I have to clear upwards of 200 off one 350 acre patch as that farm does not have headlands I can drive on. I can only sell so many in 10 days, and most other butchers have an abundance around harvest times. I suspect my butchers have learned their lesson and will take and freeze as many as I can supply next harvest time. I suspect that you are less fortunate with shooting locations than the 2000 odd acres I can shoot from Feb 2nd till Septemberish. As for not being so lazy and wising up, perhaps you did'nt read my original post properly. It's not so much that I'm sixty next month - but the COPD, aggravated by asthma, and the dodgy hip make me unable to walk the fields breathing relaxed enough to take shots on live quarry. I'll do my shooting the way I wish sonny jim. Edited November 18, 2011 by Dave-G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted November 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) Update: I may have got some good news. One of the farmers who runs a very successfull shoot which I stand back from end August till Feb 2nd has been pestering me for a while to clear up his immediate neighbours ever so small and overgrown patch. Problem is 'my chap' is a guy who see's one bunny and thinks he has an infestation, but it's a bit too far to justify the fuel. He now rents some adjoining land from another 400 acre crop neighbour for his shoot - and that land DOES have a problem that they now want clearing. I knocked 'on door of that farmer 2 years ago but he apparently used to shoot them himself. Maybe the reference has put his mind at ease because I was unknown to him, I'll know later today. Bonus ball - it adjoins the other small one too. I have a duplicate thread running on another forum to try and maximise the reading potential, I'll update that one too. Edited November 18, 2011 by Dave-G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted November 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 I think I'm sorted chaps, for a few weeks at least. The afore mentioned land is not where I thought it was - it's in smaller patches but better. A small section of one part has no headland but I can drive on the crop around the first two sides of a field to the worst affected parts. Another part has some headland but again I can make a track on two sides to the worst problem areas. Both are on the proviso I don't do it when they are really wet. They are where I have spotted a good number of bunnies and always meant to go door knocking but never did. There is a bonus ball here too - unknown to me, a guy I currently shoot for who got me the above two patches rents sheep grazing land next door to them, again with loads of as yet never shot at bunnies. He's of the opinion I will get the permision to shoot them when he speaks with the owner tomorrow. These will become my mainly winter patches. These literally fell into my lap with an unsolicited and missed call this morning. I is a 'appy chappie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheekychappy Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 well done on gaining the permissions, it always comes to them that wait yet still persevere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishman-in-wales Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Nice shooting dude...hope you get / have got everything sorted... For all you guys dumping rabbits...watch you dont get a ticket for littering and fly tipping... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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