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What can a farmer shoot without sporting rights?

  • 24-01-2009 5:00pm
    #1
    ivanthehunter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭


    As above

    Please comment

    Is there a gray area around some pests and not others.

    Heres something to get your teeth into while i go for a coffee:D

    AFAIK he can shoot anything thats causing damage to his crops but there must be some limits to this.
    I was told by a ranger before, that a farmer could shoot a deer without any licence but that the farmer would have to contact the wildlife dept asap and inform them as to why he felt it necessary to act outside the law(i.e. his million dollar crop was being attacked) and that he would then still have to apply for the license to have shot this deer but that this behavior was not the best practice and was only acceptable under extremes circumstances.

    Is this true or is it simply just not so!!!


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  • #2
    BOBTHESHOOTER
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭BOBTHESHOOTER


    ivanthehunter wrote: »
    As above

    Please comment

    Is there a gray area around some pests and not others.

    Heres something to get your teeth into while i go for a coffee:D

    AFAIK he can shoot anything thats causing damage to his crops but there must be some limits to this.
    I was told by a ranger before, that a farmer could shoot a deer without any licence but that the farmer would have to contact the wildlife dept asap and inform them as to why he felt it necessary to act outside the law(i.e. his million dollar crop was being attacked) and that he would then still have to apply for the license to have shot this deer but that this behavior was not the best practice and was only acceptable under extremes circumstances.

    Is this true or is it simply just not so!!!

    Simple answer really, for all issues related to Deer and the law refer to the HCAP manual, it is excellent and covers the area well, if dong the test you would really need to know the answer to the question above!!!

    Get yourself a HCAP manual.


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