Devon

[Shaddy93 840]

Just spent a week in Devon in the wollacomb area and what a place it is, I thought I lived in the countryside but that place is something else, wildlife everywhere in 5 days I seen reds, fallow, roe, sika and muntjac, it's mainly made up of grass fields not many crops fields and the hedge rows are as wide and as thick as a tranny van, basically the opporsite to where I live where it's mainly crop fields and sheep fencing, pointless subject but just thought I'd say I'd love to live there haha

[Penda 3,341]

Question is when you off down there with the beam and the Hund mate ?

[Chunky11 150]

I live in north Devon & all types of hunting & fishing here. Mainly good farmers who support hunting. A stock broken dog is essential,i wouldn't want to live anywhere else!

[jok 3,269]

Well son, you must live in a different part of the Midlands to me. We have the most beautiful countryside, plenty of wildlife, walks to die for, rivers to fish and generally a right nice place to reside. I'm talking the four counties borders, Staffs, Derbs, Warks and North West Leics. Ok might not be Devon but it is very nice. Jok.

[socks 32,253]

Well son, you must live in a different part of the Midlands to me. We have the most beautiful countryside, plenty of wildlife, walks to die for, rivers to fish and generally a right nice place to reside. I'm talking the four counties borders, Staffs, Derbs, Warks and North West Leics. Ok might not be Devon but it is very nice. Jok.

But you haven't got the range of game Devon has got ..........

[johnpee 214]

 

Well son, you must live in a different part of the Midlands to me. We have the most beautiful countryside, plenty of wildlife, walks to die for, rivers to fish and generally a right nice place to reside. I'm talking the four counties borders, Staffs, Derbs, Warks and North West Leics. Ok might not be Devon but it is very nice. Jok.

But you haven't got the range of game Devon has got ..........

or the tranny van hedge rows.

[white van man 3,329]

I lived up there for over ten years but didn't have the dogs back then. I still work up there most weeks and get a bit of lamping in. Good mooching too. Have to agree with chunky11.....there's some great fishing!!

Edited June 16, 2017 by white van man

[cantona 310]

 

Well son, you must live in a different part of the Midlands to me. We have the most beautiful countryside, plenty of wildlife, walks to die for, rivers to fish and generally a right nice place to reside. I'm talking the four counties borders, Staffs, Derbs, Warks and North West Leics. Ok might not be Devon but it is very nice. Jok.

But you haven't got the range of game Devon has got ..........

all of it apart from red and sika

[roybo 2,873]

There's red not far from you cantona,

[Shaddy93 840]

Well son, you must live in a different part of the Midlands to me. We have the most beautiful countryside, plenty of wildlife, walks to die for, rivers to fish and generally a right nice place to reside. I'm talking the four counties borders, Staffs, Derbs, Warks and North West Leics. Ok might not be Devon but it is very nice. Jok.

I live on the borders of Calke abbey, and do alo of my field craft around the Newtown linford area, the countryside around here is great I'm not disputing that, but it is still built up a lot more than where Iv been in Devon, the hedges around here are nowhere near as thick as around there and the hills around here are like a mole hill on a Devonshire hill, I take for granted where I live I don't have to walk far to see many of the deer species and Leicestershire as a whole is renound for its number of foxes but like I say I think anybody in this game would sooner wake up in Devon than around here

[jok 3,269]

I can honestly say that there are red and Sika not more than 20 mins from my house. Jok.

[Shaddy93 840]

I can honestly say that there are red and Sika not more than 20 mins from my house. Jok.

There are red less than 5 minutes from mine but there all park deer if your in Leicestershire and you have red deer near you I garuntee there park deer, there are many deer near me roe fallow red and muntys and a 40 minute drive lands you bang in the middle of cwd country but I'm talking about the scenery, the running ground, the cover and the overall wildlife, again I'm not saying there no wildlife but the hunting ground isn't a patch in the midlands compared to Devonshire I use to work for the atherstone hunt based in Warwickshire and when I was there we held more hunting ground than any other hunt in England however most of it was no good for drag hunting because there is too many main roads, I walked 14 miles one day in Devon and came across three country lanes not one main road in sight

[cantona 310]

There's red not far from you cantona,

not any more

[low plains drifter 10,651]

Like the sound of Devon mate, once read an article written by a gamekeeper who mentioned regretting not having discovered Devon earlier

[roybo 2,873]

 

There's red not far from you cantona,

not any more

in the county north of you ,if Warwickshire is your county