monkeyjaimz Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Well I was out shooting on tuesday night and bumped into the shoot captain / gamekeeper who's responsible for my permission on that (massive) bit of land. Our original agreement at the beginning of the year was that I had permission up until around the end of july (right about now). So I was stood talking to him the other night and he's saying that he's got the pheasant poults arriving very soon etc and has a lot of work on to prepare for their arrival, then he mentioned that the water pipe that supplies the pens wasnt working and he couldnt figure out why, so i volunteered my services to have a look and sort it out for him. Went along last night after work and got it sorted, all it needed was 4 jubilee clips and 6 inches of 15mm copper pipe and presto! As a result I now have a chuffed gamekeeper and extension on my permission due to my helping him out and doing a good job with the rabbits and a bit of fox spotting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Everyone should take a pride intheir permission. Report anything that that you can't fix yourself, pick up litter and generaly treat it like you would your own land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 I think they like having me wandering around at odd times of the day. One permission used to have a problem with dids, but since I've been going it's dropped off massively P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Building up that relationship is all important, never take anything for granted and never stop saying "thank you". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dusk2dawn Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Building up that relationship is all important, never take anything for granted and never stop saying "thank you". Wise words, one of my shoots has a newly dug 6 acre lake freshly stocked with HUGE carp (I dont fish for them, I wish they were trout), problem is a large workforce of Poles etc not 10 miles away that have so far not heard about it. so one of my "jobs" is to go out at irregular times doing a spot of pest control. It works both ways. D2D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyjaimz Posted July 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Building up that relationship is all important, never take anything for granted and never stop saying "thank you". Cheers cranners, I've only had the permission since the beginning of the year and over the last couple of months the area of land I've been allowed on has more than doubled and the gamekeeper (real old school fellow) now uses my first name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browning GTS Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 It always pays to help out, on my biggest permission i try to go along aleast twice a month to help with maintenance jobs ect but im lucky in that the shoot captain takes care of the foxes but nether him or most of the guns shoot pigeons, rabbits or corvids so that is my job whenever i want to go along and being over two farms and almost 1,000 acres there is always plenty to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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