old man Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 (edited) 6 hours ago, Dougy said: Ooops. No a random bloke appeared from nowhere. Got used to that along with runners and assorted dogs. Edited April 10 by old man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted April 10 Author Report Share Posted April 10 2 minutes ago, old man said: Got used to that along with runner and assorted dogs. The thing was, even with 2 of us spotting deer with thermal, neither of us saw him, it was like he was dropped in by helicopter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 Just now, Dougy said: The thing was, even with 2 of us spotting deer with thermal, neither of us saw him, it was like he was dropped in by helicopter. No real surprise, where I was it got so bad that the access signs denoting cull days were removed as meaningless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 3 hours ago, old man said: No real surprise, where I was it got so bad that the access signs denoting cull days were removed as meaningless. Yes, had that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minky Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 on two occasions I've been decoying and had random walkers come right in front of the hide. Although I had been shooting there was a quiet spell. I hadn't noticed these people and suddenly they saw the flock of decoys and stopped. I think that they were sure that these pigeons should have flown away. One clapped hands and the walkers seemed entranced that the pigeon had taken no notice of them. It was at this point that one of the walkers decided to climb over the wire fence to investigate the hypnotised decoys. This was a situation of the decoys decoying the people. I couldn't let this happen and matey strain the fence or risk him leaving body parts on the fence. I made my presence known to these walkers and they were surprised that I was there and they were there and the decoys were there. I redirected them back to the footpath and the route to go and carried on shooting. Still at least I could be sure that I had done a good job of the hide, but there again it showed how blind people are/can be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 A mate of mine had his duck decoys stalked and actually shot at on the water by a trespassing local. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 15 hours ago, London Best said: Yes, had that too. It always amazes me. Legal activities are never protected as dictated in law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 One farmer had a parcel of land threw a wood and there was 6 foot deer fencing and no shooting signs all threw the private wood all where full of pellet holes signs are a waste of time nobody bothers about reading them now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted April 11 Author Report Share Posted April 11 7 hours ago, Bigbob said: One farmer had a parcel of land threw a wood and there was 6 foot deer fencing and no shooting signs all threw the private wood all where full of pellet holes signs are a waste of time nobody bothers about reading them now If we don't do anything we accept what we get. I'm happy just trying. You will never prevent the scrtote type but there's a couple that walks their dogs that may think twice. Probably more so after they hear a rifle shot. 👍 We'll have to wait and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted April 12 Report Share Posted April 12 14 hours ago, Dougy said: If we don't do anything we accept what we get. I'm happy just trying. You will never prevent the scrtote type but there's a couple that walks their dogs that may think twice. Probably more so after they hear a rifle shot. 👍 We'll have to wait and see. And therein lies the problem maybe? Giving them brown kecks may result in a visit from an ARV? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted April 12 Author Report Share Posted April 12 8 hours ago, old man said: And therein lies the problem maybe? Giving them brown kecks may result in a visit from an ARV? Again lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted April 12 Report Share Posted April 12 49 minutes ago, Dougy said: Again lol. Another way of becoming a twitcher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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