Some people are unbelievable.

[WILF 47,044]

2 minutes ago, dogmandont said:

Im in a rural area in the north and round here a really big farm would be maybe 500 acres but they are few and far between, its mostly made up of 30 or 40 acre farms and most of the ground won't be in one block. 

Yep, pretty much same as that mate.....however there’s isn’t many 500 acre farms round me, 140 would be considered gigantic ! Lol 

[dogmandont 9,838]

Just now, WILF said:

Yep, pretty much same as that mate.....however there’s isn’t many 500 acre farms round me, 140 would be considered gigantic ! Lol 

140 acres round here and you'd be considered as Lord of the Manor. Lol. 500 acres and you must be the queens nephew. 

[Born Hunter 17,775]

f***ing hell. It's nothing for a farm to go over a thousand acres here. Single fields go well over hundred acres. Lots smaller but it's not rare either.

[dogmandont 9,838]

1 minute ago, Born Hunter said:

f***ing hell. It's nothing for a farm to go over a thousand acres here. Single fields go well over hundred acres. Lots smaller but it's not rare either.

Id  need to have permission on 25 farms to your 1. Lol. 

[Chaff 3,622]

14 minutes ago, dogmandont said:

Im in a rural area in the north and round here a really big farm would be maybe 500 acres but they are few and far between, its mostly made up of 30 or 40 acre farms and most of the ground won't be in one block but consist of 10 4 acre fields scattered about the place. 

Tad on the awkward side to manage that 

In some ways better though than having just a few rich greedy land owners, 

[Greyman 28,501]

A farm I walk on has a wood of a 1000 acres in the middle of it, I can spend all day walking and still be on the same farm

[WILF 47,044]

1 minute ago, Born Hunter said:

f***ing hell. It's nothing for a farm to go over a thousand acres here. Single fields go well over hundred acres. Lots smaller but it's not rare either.

I used to have permission over a few small farms in England and none of them was smaller than 600 acres, a keeper mate ran 3000 acres and used to let me have a run in there and another pal who still gets on here now and again had the permission over a chunk of the Cotswolds 18 miles x 24 miles in size ! 
 

There’s nothing like that here ! Lol 

 

[Born Hunter 17,775]

Just now, WILF said:

I used to have permission over a few small farms in England and none of them was smaller than 600 acres, a keeper mate ran 3000 acres and used to let me have a run in there and another pal who still gets on here now and again had the permission over a chunk of the Cotswolds 18 miles x 24 miles in size ! 
 

There’s nothing like that here ! Lol 

 

From a cost-benefit point of view you wouldn't really consider taking on any typical arable type permission under around 500 acres for a shoot. It just wouldn't be worth it unless it was somewhat unique and lent itself to the job.

[dogmandont 9,838]

5 minutes ago, WILF said:

I used to have permission over a few small farms in England and none of them was smaller than 600 acres, a keeper mate ran 3000 acres and used to let me have a run in there and another pal who still gets on here now and again had the permission over a chunk of the Cotswolds 18 miles x 24 miles in size ! 
 

There’s nothing like that here ! Lol 

 

A man can only dream of having permission like that. Lol. 

[dogmandont 9,838]

8 minutes ago, Chaff said:

Tad on the awkward side to manage that 

In some ways better though than having just a few rich greedy land owners, 

Na we just have a load of poor greedy farmers. Lol. 

[Born Hunter 17,775]

1 minute ago, dogmandont said:

A man can only dream of having permission like that. Lol. 

Keepers and professional terriermen can open up tens of thousands of acres over here to a keen lad. It just requires a bit of commitment.

Be a f***ing nightmare trying to do the same your side by the sounds of it.

[WILF 47,044]

5 minutes ago, Born Hunter said:

From a cost-benefit point of view you wouldn't really consider taking on any typical arable type permission under around 500 acres for a shoot. It just wouldn't be worth it unless it was somewhat unique and lent itself to the job.

The shame is mate there is plenty of ground  that would lend itself to something like pheasant shooting, nice woods sitting above valleys that would present birds really well, plenty of water that you could feed for ducks.....but as has been said it’s spread out.

Now, the local gun club would have permission over all this in an area but they just ain’t interested in raising a few birds, feeding a few ponds and having a few days a season as well as the pest control that would inevitably go with it.

They would rather wander up a lane, blast a couple of things and go home or shoot clays ! 
Wankers like ! 

[dogmandont 9,838]

1 minute ago, Born Hunter said:

Keepers and professional terriermen can open up tens of thousands of acres over here to a keen lad. It just requires a bit of commitment.

Be a f***ing nightmare trying to do the same your side by the sounds of it.

It is born, i laugh sometimes at lads on here talking about a having look on the wrong side of the fence, im always on the wrong side. Lol. 

[Born Hunter 17,775]

1 minute ago, dogmandont said:

It is born, i laugh sometimes at lads on here talking about a having look on the wrong side of the fence, im always on the wrong side. Lol. 

I walked away from nearly two thousand acres of free reign arable permission few months ago because I got sick of the agro on shoot days so maybe you have it right. 

[Born Hunter 17,775]

5 minutes ago, WILF said:

The shame is mate there is plenty of ground  that would lend itself to something like pheasant shooting, nice woods sitting above valleys that would present birds really well, plenty of water that you could feed for ducks.....but as has been said it’s spread out.

Now, the local gun club would have permission over all this in an area but they just ain’t interested in raising a few birds, feeding a few ponds and having a few days a season as well as the pest control that would inevitably go with it.

They would rather wander up a lane, blast a couple of things and go home or shoot clays ! 
Wankers like ! 

Shame, the gunclub system even puts the framework in for it to happen then. Just a total lack of direction.