shotgunny 39 Posted December 20, 2010 Report Share Posted December 20, 2010 I've stopped shooting duck and pheasant but the pigeons are hammering rape so I'm not sure weather to shoot or not ? Atb sg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mexlad 189 Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 what ban is that mate ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest crobinc840 Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 (edited) Someone has asked the same question yesterday I think, here's the post. My link But the answer was it isn't mandatory but they ask you to chose not to shoot them I do believe. The BASC rules blah blah blah My link Edited December 21, 2010 by crobinc840 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shotgunny 39 Posted December 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 Sorry lads forgot to mention I'm in Eire Atb sg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J Darcy 5,871 Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 Well, the way i looks at it is...IF you are going to eat those woodies then you want to shoot them now rather than in a weeks time when they will be fit for nothing more than ferret food. I roasted four the other day with some venison, and they sure tasted nice cold with a bit of pickle. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MOO 730 Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 We shot over 2000 last week that were hammering kayle that was for sainburys 20p a plant ...20000 plants to the acre and the farmer reconed he had lost 19 acres to geese and pigeons so they had to be controled Quote Link to post Share on other sites
neil cooney 10,416 Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 Yes I'm sticking to the ban but I have to agree that I've seen massive flocks of pigeons on the rape. And watching the greycrows and magpies killing all around them is also annoying in that there's nothing I can do about them. But I think if you were to fire more than a shot or two you'd be caught because every one seems to be aware of the ban. It ends today but was to be reveiwed, has anyone heard if it's extended again? Anyways I took 16 pigeon breasts out of the freezer the other day, lovely, and still have 3 teal and a couple of trout left. I had to close all my rat, squirrell and mink traps because of the amount of non-target species I was catching. I had a cock pheasant in a mink trap that was in a tunnell. I let him go and had a magpie in the same trap the next day. Every thing except the fox, greycrow and magpie is starving. On a brighter note, the severe weather last year thinned out the buzzard population so hopefully this year might do the same. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
neil cooney 10,416 Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 I see the ban has been extended to and including Dec. 30th. I'm sure most sportsmen will know it's right but I hate the fact that this ban is brought in by that prick Gormley. The Greens must be rubbing their hands. Pity that the shooters can't enforce it themselves and tell the Greens to mind their own business. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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