Form Q76N

[DeerhoundLurcherMan 997]

I don't think you could apply for a FAC for shooting tin cans?

[paulus 26]

 

do rabbits eat apple trees usually deer chew the bottom, squirrels chew the top and bullfinch peck the buds

I work on a garden nursery and can assure you they do. Rabbits teath never stop growing so they wear them down by gnawing everything insight

 

they also make horrible rabbit noises and drop currents all over the grass, i never new currants came from rabbits until i was told by a member on here.

[Deker 3,478]

 

do rabbits eat apple trees usually deer chew the bottom, squirrels chew the top and bullfinch peck the buds

I work on a garden nursery and can assure you they do. Rabbits teath never stop growing so they wear them down by gnawing everything insight

 

 

That will be oversize rats :laugh:, rabbits are not well known for gnawing fruit trees, only small ones or saplings perhaps, I do work for a BIG Plant nursery keeping down their rabbit population, they very rarely cause any issue to trees/fruit trees but a lot to the plants and shrubs!

[STRANGER 948]

If feeding is poor rabbits will eat bark

Where I live there is usually snow covering the ground for a good few weeks of the year, all the trees in the garden have rabbit damage.

 

Probably not a problem down south though lol

 

Doesn't matter anyway, you can get a firearms licence to shoot foxes on arable land where they cause no harm so how is this any different.

 

Apply and you will get it.

Edited June 13, 2014 by STRANGER

[wakey87 2]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

do rabbits eat apple trees usually deer chew the bottom, squirrels chew the top and bullfinch peck the buds

I work on a garden nursery and can assure you they do. Rabbits teath never stop growing so they wear them down by gnawing everything insight

That will be oversize rats :laugh:, rabbits are not well known for gnawing fruit trees, only small ones or saplings perhaps, I do work for a BIG Plant nursery keeping down their rabbit population, they very rarely cause any issue to trees/fruit trees but a lot to the plants and shrubs!

I usualy only deal with the tree side of the nursery tbh, we do alot of hedging and ornamental trees which are just planted in a field bordering a wood and I have to admit they can take a battering. Our fruit trees are pot grown in the yard, out of harms way. So I didn't know they go mostly unmolested. Edited June 13, 2014 by wakey87

[The Seeker 3,048]

Re the original question it is more a case of if the land is safe enough to fire a fire arm on. I had land of about 20 acres passed for .22 rim fire when i first started but there are lots of safe back stops. As SS suggests you won't really know unless you put the application in, it's nothing really to do with the size of land, certainly for a first timer it's to do with the police being satisfied its safe to shoot on.

 

Good luck

[The one 8,507]

AS said its all about the back drops but my old FAO said theres a guy with a rifle at so and so he fires 6 shots a year in my opinion he doesn't need that rifle

[J_Edwards 70]

To answer the question, it definitely depends on the quality of the land, not the quantity. 5 acres of hilly, remote land, is better than 100 acres in the middle of a housing estate.

 

My friend has hundreds of acres of hilly land, but he got refused a .22LR because it was too close to a busy pub, whereas I got a .17HMR and .223 centerfire for 50 acres of very remote grassland.

 

All you can do is let the police have a look and see what they think. Your good reason is obviously that rabbits are causing damage, but it depends on how the FEO sees your land, and if they deem it to be safe for firearm use.

[Alsone 789]

To answer the question, it definitely depends on the quality of the land, not the quantity. 5 acres of hilly, remote land, is better than 100 acres in the middle of a housing estate.

 

My friend has hundreds of acres of hilly land, but he got refused a .22LR because it was too close to a busy pub, .

 

That has to be the most ridiculous refusal I've ever heard. You simply shoot away from the pub. More likely the police didn't want patrons phoning them every time they saw someone with a gun!

 

I'd have appealed that.

Edited June 17, 2014 by Alsone

[J_Edwards 70]

 

To answer the question, it definitely depends on the quality of the land, not the quantity. 5 acres of hilly, remote land, is better than 100 acres in the middle of a housing estate.

 

My friend has hundreds of acres of hilly land, but he got refused a .22LR because it was too close to a busy pub, .

 

That has to be the most ridiculous refusal I've ever heard. You simply shoot away from the pub. More likely the police didn't want patrons phoning them every time they saw someone with a gun!

 

I'd have appealed that.

 

 

Personally, I think it was also something to do with my friend's personality, as he does come across as a "gun nut", but that's my belief. What he told me, that the FEO said to him, was that the pub and it's grounds border the land, on which he intends to shoot, and is therefore too dangerous for firearm use.

[Alsone 789]

Yeah something is wrong because it doesn't ring true as being down to the location.

 

My friends shoot is on the edge of a village and 300m x 200m in total and almost totally flat with roads within approx 1/2 mile on 3 sides, not to mention housing.

[charlie caller 3,654]

 

 

To answer the question, it definitely depends on the quality of the land, not the quantity. 5 acres of hilly, remote land, is better than 100 acres in the middle of a housing estate.

 

My friend has hundreds of acres of hilly land, but he got refused a .22LR because it was too close to a busy pub, .

 

That has to be the most ridiculous refusal I've ever heard. You simply shoot away from the pub. More likely the police didn't want patrons phoning them every time they saw someone with a gun!

 

I'd have appealed that.

 

 

Personally, I think it was also something to do with my friend's personality, as he does come across as a "gun nut", but that's my belief. What he told me, that the FEO said to him, was that the pub and it's grounds border the land, on which he intends to shoot, and is therefore too dangerous for firearm use.

 

So has said friend now been granted on any other land? Or has he given up trying, if he has that would suggest they did not wish to grant him an fac due to, as you say some flaw in his personality, I know people who have land passed for cf who's land backs onto pubs, no there is another reason your pal was not granted