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shooting hen phesant

  • 23-08-2010 1:27pm
    #1
    ferrete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭


    it is legal or not to shoot hen phesant i have often wondered this or is it just that it is frowned upon up the gun clubs as for reproduction etc


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  • #2
    homerhop
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    ferrete wrote: »
    it is legal or not to shoot hen phesant i have often wondered this or is it just that it is frowned upon up the gun clubs as for reproduction etc
    If they are released you can obtain a licence to shoot hens


  • #3
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    homerhop wrote: »
    If they are released you can obtain a licence to shoot hens

    How can you prove its released or not?

    We have a huge amount of hens around me and only maybe 2 cocks.

    I have seen live young with hens in meadow, but AFAIK the local club releases also.

    Where do you get the permit?

    NPWS?


  • #4
    bunny shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭bunny shooter


    homerhop wrote: »
    If they are released you can obtain a licence to shoot hens

    +1 ........... I think it only refers to driven shoots though?


  • #5
    J.R.
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    homerhop wrote: »
    If they are released you can obtain a licence to shoot hens

    That's true but it also depends on the numbers reared & a certain percentage of hens to cocks (don't have the exact figures at hand at the moment).

    A club releasing 100 birds can't apply for the licence...large amount as far as I remember.


  • #6
    pedroeibar1
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    Shooting hens is allowed under an annual licence granted by the NPWS. You have to prove that you have released a substantial number of hens before they will issue you with a licence, which is why it usually is done only for gun clubs & shoots, rather than individuals. "Substantial number" varies, AFAIK, but the bottom end would be about 400 or so.

    Tack – the ratio of hens to cocks in the breeding season is usually 4-7 hens for each cock, which is why you will see more hens than cocks.
    P.


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  • #7
    homerhop
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    How can you prove its released or not?
    Its the way the wink at ya.
    All joking aside there is no real way of telling the difference.

    When we first released birds (150) we applied and got a licence to shoot hens.


  • #8
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    Shooting hens is allowed under an annual licence granted by the NPWS. You have to prove that you have released a substantial number of hens before they will issue you with a licence, which is why it usually is done only for gun clubs & shoots, rather than individuals. "Substantial number" varies, AFAIK, but the bottom end would be about 400 or so.

    Tack – the ratio of hens to cocks in the breeding season is usually 4-7 hens for each cock, which is why you will see more hens than cocks.
    P.


    We would have 14 hens for every cock, there or there abouts.
    The Lucky Cocks :D


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