where to snare?

[big bopper 0]

i am realy strugling to find any one willing to give me permission to snare on their land, getting a lot of "we are tenented farmers and the land owner has shooting rights" any advice please? i have several long stretches of road near me that have deep verges these do not have foot paths on them and are very rarely walked, there aleays seems to be a lot of road kill along there, would it be feasable to snare on that?

 

Thanks Tony

[Matt 160]

i am realy strugling to find any one willing to give me permission to snare on their land, getting a lot of "we are tenented farmers and the land owner has shooting rights" any advice please? i have several long stretches of road near me that have deep verges these do not have foot paths on them and are very rarely walked, there aleays seems to be a lot of road kill along there, would it be feasable to snare on that?

 

Thanks Tony

 

The 'Ground Game Act' of 1881 gave tennants and occupiers the right to kill ground game (rabbits and hares) regardless of who owns the shooting rights.

 

Roadside verges are owned by someone (often the highways authority) who must give their permission before you can trap or snare. I would strongly advise against setting snares where you do not have permission - you will be found out sooner or later, and will give legitimate trappers a bad name. Remember that there are lots of misguided people out there who are waiting for us to slip up to give them ammunition to use against us.

 

Keep on asking for permission; try to dress smartly, and be as polite as you can. You will get permission if you persevere.

[stubby 175]

also, dont go straight in with "can I snare here" and also look at other venues other than farmers, I recieved a request to ferret a football clubs grounds as it was overun with rabbits, walking around the place I could see ferreting was going to be hard, as most of the warrens were on the wrong side of the boundary fence, but I accepted the permission, spent a day with a couple of the lads of here, catching only 4 rabbits, on chatting with the guy at the end of the day, and on him seeing our poor results, he quickly agreed to give me full permission to dispose of the rabbits in any humane way, this was in the form of SNARING, SHOOTING , LIVE CATCH, and FERRETING

[big bopper 0]

all understood and taken in, which is why i posted on here first to see if i could get any advice, (too old to be running from game keepers ) i have been to all the farms withing a 20 mile radius, and offered my services for snaring, not just rabbits also offered for rats, i have got post cards up in the local feed merchants as well, in total just one person has taken my name and address.

 

oh well looks like i will just have to look at the pictures on here nad dream

[stubby 175]

its always hard getting the first permission, but once you have one, it esculates,

try looking at anything next door to the farms you would like permission on, ie houses with back gardens backing onto fields, knock and offer "free" rabbit control, if you get these do a "google earth" and take a printed overhead picture to the farm, you then tell them your doing free rabbit control for mr so and so, but the rabbits are coming through boundary fence, could they give you permission to snare this fence line

that way, your not asking them to give you permission over 100% of their land, just this little bit, sometimes that gives you the edge, if given try to get an e mail address, then once rabbits are caught, you can send them a thank you post inc pictures, makes it look proffessional, which goes a long way

 

or

 

go around again, asking if they need volunte's for work, dont even mention hunting, get your foot in the door that way