low plains drifter 10,620 Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 The squires welcome they poacher things on their land with open arms over here, they cannot get enough of gangs of yoyo's from ragamuffin housing estates visiting in search of potential picnic'ing hotspots Quote Link to post Share on other sites
low plains drifter 10,620 Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 I was talking to someone here who said he knew a guy who would take up to 1000 birds off one of the estates, IF true that is some serious cash! At the start of the season game dealers were paying £1.00 a brace, one of the shoots I go to they're paying 27 pence a brace (yesterday) and many shoots are getting nothing for them with the game dealers offering to pick them up for free. a guy I know runs a big shoot on the Cotswolds and most of the birds get buried after the shoot if the beaters don't want them, I can remember the days I got a £1.00 a trout, nowadays I give them away, a 1000 birds would cost the estate that lost them much money but the person that took them would earn more working in McDonald's Yeh true you wouldn't get much from a game dealer but that's nearly 3 grand cost to the shoot Not poaching related it's very sad people bang on about food banks and 'poverty' where there is so much cheap food out there that is down to the dumbing down of society, there is know other living mammal that can't feed itself, modern man is almost totally fecked and completely dependant on the state now to keep them alive, would you rather stand inline with a load of scabby dole heads with your hand out for a tin of out of date beans, or take a nice walk in the country and forage a lovely fresh free meal, I know what I would rather do, but there are still thousands more people queing up for that tin of beans than picking up there own grub, and the best bit of it they stand there texting on a £500 I phone when there kids are hungry, Trackies tucked into socks, and muddy Subaru parked around the corner Quote Link to post Share on other sites
low plains drifter 10,620 Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 I was talking to someone here who said he knew a guy who would take up to 1000 birds off one of the estates, IF true that is some serious cash! That's not poaching. That's being a prick. Honestly I didn't think that sort of thing ever happened....naive? Yes probably! No need to do it. It's just for spite. As said pheasants are ten a penny when the shooting starts. Same sort of mentality as shooting all the hares off the land, feckin futile Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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