Gun clubs and pheasants

dodderangler

Was out today and Shot a rabbit retrieved it an out came farmer saying I had no right to be on the land that it was gun club land and his pheasant pen was broken into by poachers ( felt he was accusing me)
I told him I wasn't a poacher and had permission from his neighbour to shoot the rabbits and few foxes crows etc
so after Huffin and puffin he seen I was not a poacher and was reminded I met him before so chats and laughs and he got back to his pheasants being broken into and robbed
Felt sorry for him as he had a great set up on his pens and some scumbag robbed all his pheasants
He has melanistics there aswell ( heard their expensive)
So just wondering does it happen a lot with gun clubs and have you's been able to stop them
Atb

TriggerPL

dodderangler wrote: »

Was out today and Shot a rabbit retrieved it an out came farmer saying I had no right to be on the land that it was gun club land and his pheasant pen was broken into by poachers ( felt he was accusing me)
I told him I wasn't a poacher and had permission from his neighbour to shoot the rabbits and few foxes crows etc
so after Huffin and puffin he seen I was not a poacher and was reminded I met him before so chats and laughs and he got back to his pheasants being broken into and robbed
Felt sorry for him as he had a great set up on his pens and some scumbag robbed all his pheasants
He has melanistics there aswell ( heard their expensive)
So just wondering does it happen a lot with gun clubs and have you's been able to stop them
Atb

Had twenty poults stolen on me this year, I suspect a club member but can't prove it

wildfowler94

dodderangler wrote: »

Was out today and Shot a rabbit retrieved it an out came farmer saying I had no right to be on the land that it was gun club land and his pheasant pen was broken into by poachers ( felt he was accusing me)
I told him I wasn't a poacher and had permission from his neighbour to shoot the rabbits and few foxes crows etc
so after Huffin and puffin he seen I was not a poacher and was reminded I met him before so chats and laughs and he got back to his pheasants being broken into and robbed
Felt sorry for him as he had a great set up on his pens and some scumbag robbed all his pheasants
He has melanistics there aswell ( heard their expensive)
So just wondering does it happen a lot with gun clubs and have you's been able to stop them
Atb

why were you on land you had no permission to be on? can bate them blank cartridge trip wires great job and trail cams;)

dodderangler

wildfowler94 wrote: »

why were you on land you had no permission to be on? can bate them blank cartridge trip wires great job and trail cams;)

I have permission
Just a small misunderstanding of land but after I explained who I was he remembered talking to me before ( decided to grow a beard maybe didn't recognise me)

homerhop

I know 3 clubs around me that had all their birds stolen last year, one of them being hit the second time when the replaced the birds.

garyc007

why would they steal the pheasants,is it one club stealing off another do you think?

rugerman

9 times outs ten its member of club in ours a (member) shot nearly 30 birds in a pen

dodderangler

The farmer I was talking to did mention he reckons he knows who it is
I asked him is it another club doing he said it wouldn't surprise him if its his own club members looking for an easy Sunday dinner
Also like to add that after the chat he examined the land I can shoot and actually gave me a lot more land to shoot as long as its just rabbits and foxes basically just vermin
He also told me that his magpies in the Larson trap were taken aswell
Why would someone take the mags?

EPointer=Birdss

dodderangler wrote: »

The farmer I was talking to did mention he reckons he knows who it is
I asked him is it another club doing he said it wouldn't surprise him if its his own club members looking for an easy Sunday dinner
Also like to add that after the chat he examined the land I can shoot and actually gave me a lot more land to shoot as long as its just rabbits and foxes basically just vermin
He also told me that his magpies in the Larson trap were taken aswell
Why would someone take the mags?

Just add ice cream & you have desert to the dinner. On wait wrong pie.

Why steal - The same reason as people rob houses Dodder - they are scum who think its ok to take what others own.
Easy rob 50 birds off one lad & release em on their own patch. Club & non club members alike have ill gotten gains in this.

TriggerPL

I've had a Larsen trap smashed on me and caught a woman in our Feild realeasing mag pie from one of my traps , when I approached her she attacked me shouting that its cruel and againsted the law , and said she was going to the local newspaper over me , what could I do but laugh ! She was nuts .

dodderangler

EPointer=Birdss wrote: »

Just add ice cream & you have desert to the dinner. On wait wrong pie.

Why steal - The same reason as people rob houses Dodder - they are scum who think its ok to take what others own.
Easy rob 50 birds off one lad & release em on their own patch. Club & non club members alike have ill gotten gains in this.

But the maggies?
Why would someone rob them?
Would they use them to lure other magpies in? Just doesn't make sense
Just your typical scumbags
He also said that people are worried bout who is on the land because 3 houses were robbed in area in a week

lb1981

TriggerPL wrote: »

I've had a Larsen trap smashed on me and caught a woman in our Feild realeasing mag pie from one of my traps , when I approached her she attacked me shouting that its cruel and againsted the law , and said she was going to the local newspaper over me , what could I do but laugh ! She was nuts .

Thats the menopause drives them ****ing mental should be a season on them when they are like that.
Had simular we were shooting a huge patch of cabbage in the snow ,the owner was literately loosing thousands to pigeons lashing the cabbage out of it in droves so a few of us set up around it and were hammering them, after about an hour this mad aul one came legging it up the field waving a white sheet on a sweeping brush shouting "murderers, murderers". As comical as it was we had to get the land owner to come up and throw her off,she was foaming at the mouth screaming abuse at us and the more she went mental the more we laughed at her.We also had 4 Larson traps smashed to bits and a ladder trap that took me ages to make.

CJhaughey

lb1981 wrote: »

this mad aul one came legging it up the field waving a white sheet on a sweeping brush shouting "murderers, murderers".

I take it that it wasn't a sign of surrender.

lb1981

CJhaughey wrote: »

I take it that it wasn't a sign of surrender.

Defo not, ,i would love to know what as going through her head when she took the sheet from the washing basket and tied it to the top of a sweeping brush

TriggerPL

dodderangler wrote: »

But the maggies?
Why would someone rob them?
Would they use them to lure other magpies in? Just doesn't make sense
Just your typical scumbags
He also said that people are worried bout who is on the land because 3 houses were robbed in area in a week

Ul find they were let out

richiedel123

TriggerPL wrote: »

Ul find they were let out

Have had magpie let out on me too. People must stumble across them and free them thinking they are doin good. Ya would want a padlock on the lid

Sika98k

richiedel123 wrote: »

Have had magpie let out on me too. People must stumble across them and free them thinking they are doin good. Ya would want a padlock on the lid

So you lock the lid and then they smash the cage. Been down that road.

richiedel123

Sika98k wrote: »

So you lock the lid and then they smash the cage. Been down that road.

Point taken. Invest in a trail cam catch them doin it but make sure it's well hidden

dodderangler

richiedel123 wrote: »

Point taken. Invest in a trail cam catch them doin it but make sure it's well hidden

That's what I said to the lad and he said they done it before and scumbags took the camera that was up in a tree but he said sure even if we got them on camera what are the chances they'd have their faces hidden? And even then what could be done about it?
You'd be well off waiting for the little cnuts with the shotty