What dya think of this course?

[Powell93 5]

Seems almost too good to be true!

 

http://www.northhighland.ac.uk/coursedetails.aspx?course=HIGHLAND%20GAMEKEEPING%20National%20Certificate

 

 

 

Lee

[Bobba_fett 117]

aye north highland is fine all you want to hear about is stalking. I went to borders college and did gamekeeping and most of the people got jobs at the end of it, I got a full time grouse job others got pheasant jobs as well as stalkers.

[events co-ordinator 353]

One of the lecturers has just retired and is a good friend of ours but this was always a highly rated course

[roebuck220 80]

Good course did it myself a while back, it will depend on the estate you get a placement as to whats involved, plenty estates have driven shooting so it aint all stalking...

[Steve McHardy 2]

  On 01/10/2010 at 21:20, roebuck220 said:

Good course did it myself a while back, it will depend on the estate you get a placement as to whats involved, plenty estates have driven shooting so it aint all stalking...

Good course i did myself also, you can change estate each year if you want to and get different experience. my 1st year i did mainly pheasant and partridge with a bit of stalking and i reared and released some Red Grouse onto the moor. My 2nd year i did mainly Grouse with a lot more stalking and no pheasant or partridge.

[Bobba_fett 117]

  On 02/10/2010 at 06:30, Steve McHardy said:

  On 01/10/2010 at 21:20, roebuck220 said:

Good course did it myself a while back, it will depend on the estate you get a placement as to whats involved, plenty estates have driven shooting so it aint all stalking...

Good course i did myself also, you can change estate each year if you want to and get different experience. my 1st year i did mainly pheasant and partridge with a bit of stalking and i reared and released some Red Grouse onto the moor. My 2nd year i did mainly Grouse with a lot more stalking and no pheasant or partridge.

 

how did the reared and released some Red Grouse go? did they take to the ground?

[Powell93 5]

  On 02/10/2010 at 06:30, Steve McHardy said:

  On 01/10/2010 at 21:20, roebuck220 said:

Good course did it myself a while back, it will depend on the estate you get a placement as to whats involved, plenty estates have driven shooting so it aint all stalking...

Good course i did myself also, you can change estate each year if you want to and get different experience. my 1st year i did mainly pheasant and partridge with a bit of stalking and i reared and released some Red Grouse onto the moor. My 2nd year i did mainly Grouse with a lot more stalking and no pheasant or partridge.

 

roebuck220: thats fine i really wanna do a bit of everything to see what I prefer

 

Steve McHardy: I thought this was only a one year course at least thats what it says on the website, oh yeh and uhhh, any tips for the interview?? I know its a while away yet but hey all advice is good (I hope)

Edited October 2, 2010 by Powell93

[Steve McHardy 2]

  On 02/10/2010 at 20:21, Powell93 said:

  On 02/10/2010 at 06:30, Steve McHardy said:

  On 01/10/2010 at 21:20, roebuck220 said:

Good course did it myself a while back, it will depend on the estate you get a placement as to whats involved, plenty estates have driven shooting so it aint all stalking...

Good course i did myself also, you can change estate each year if you want to and get different experience. my 1st year i did mainly pheasant and partridge with a bit of stalking and i reared and released some Red Grouse onto the moor. My 2nd year i did mainly Grouse with a lot more stalking and no pheasant or partridge.

 

roebuck220: thats fine i really wanna do a bit of everything to see what I prefer

 

Steve McHardy: I thought this was only a one year course at least thats what it says on the website, oh yeh and uhhh, any tips for the interview?? I know its a while away yet but hey all advice is good (I hope)

I did a NC then a HNC even had a year in between to earn enough to put up with the shit trainee wages that you get.

[Steve McHardy 2]

  On 02/10/2010 at 08:36, Bobba_fett said:

  On 02/10/2010 at 06:30, Steve McHardy said:

  On 01/10/2010 at 21:20, roebuck220 said:

Good course did it myself a while back, it will depend on the estate you get a placement as to whats involved, plenty estates have driven shooting so it aint all stalking...

Good course i did myself also, you can change estate each year if you want to and get different experience. my 1st year i did mainly pheasant and partridge with a bit of stalking and i reared and released some Red Grouse onto the moor. My 2nd year i did mainly Grouse with a lot more stalking and no pheasant or partridge.

 

how did the reared and released some Red Grouse go? did they take to the ground?

 

it will only work if you have a zero or very small resident population there was only a few brace on the moor where i was. I was only there for my NC year but what i heard was that they did ok and stayed put dont know if they have bred but there was no reason why they wouldnt. we did a lot of burning to get the heather under control with plenty of nesting cover left.