Pemission to shoot BUT!

[welshruger]

I have just had permission to shoot on a farm in Powys (400 acres) however it has not been passed for firearms, how do I get the police to inspect the land to pass it for firearms? Any advice would be welcome.

My FAC is closed!!

[Bazooka Joe]

If your ticket is open WR, you do not need them to look at the land,

 

BJ.

[tulkyuk]

or otherwise just ring your FAO and ask him to meet you there and go over the land

[markbivvy]

send a map, and contact detail of the farm/land owner to your fld.

and ask them if you can be present, thats if you want to be there.

[Dougy]

just as a matter of interest, as above posts you should be present :blink:

 

unlike some land that i didnt get past at first, they only past it for 223 not 22.250 i rang up flo informed him of the difference in velocity not being that great and told him that whatever the calibre its were you point it that is the important bit, he was asked to reconsider which he did, passed all the land, and all other land from another farmer, without even getting his shoes dirty

[mosa]

Ive just had the same problem. You need to send in your permission letter with covering letter after you phone them to confirm the land has not yet been surveyed, make sure you give them all possible names it could have come under in the past. They will go through the usual process just like a grant what i mean by that is it will take them 6-8 weeks to process this to your local PC and then they will send you a confirmation letter in the post. Should not need to visit you. Thats how Northumbria do it anyway Hope this helps!!!!!!!!! ps state what calibre rifles etc you are going to use as they will have to re inspect for each one.

[Nildes]

Given the distance any centrefire could travel, its best to arrange to meet the FO on site.

Before you do, go over the land and decide where you might put high seats and where the safe backstops are and what calibres you could use where.

Don't get caught out with thinking that he'll give you rimmy for most of it, because of the ricochet problem.

Might be better to say .17HMR from high seat etc.

Don't forget, the FO is assessing you as much as the land.

[OneEye]

Whenever I get some new land, I first look at it on the OS map, looking for hills and dips, then get a satellite photo from Google Earth and get the landowner to go over it, outlining the edges of the land, and ideally indicating where the quarry may be found. Then I spend a day out there looking over where the safe shots are, any hides or high-seats required. Then when it's time to start I'm pretty sure I know where I can and can't shoot, where I need to be to have a safe shot at the productive areas etc.

 

Before I had an open ticket I used to do something similar with the FEO and never had land refused. If you can point out the shots and the backstops they are fine about it as a rule. BTW, here in Devon they classify land as either suitable for rimfire or suitable for any firearm - they don't go in for this business of individual calibres. And they don't distinguish between .22 LR, .22 WMR and .17HMR - it's all rimfire to them. And Centrefire could be anything from .17REM to .50BMG.