poachers

Greengrass1

Anyone have problems with lads hunting and not asking?
Two lads here today said they were after rabbits. I think they were trying to course hares.
Ive no problem with anyone hunting all they have to do is come and ask.

whelan2

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Anyone have problems with lads hunting and not asking?
Two lads here today said they were after rabbits. I think they were trying to course hares.
Ive no problem with anyone hunting all they have to do is come and ask.

just put up signs at all gates on to farm , no tresspassers etc.

freedominacup

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Anyone have problems with lads hunting and not asking?
Two lads here today said they were after rabbits. I think they were trying to course hares.
Ive no problem with anyone hunting all they have to do is come and ask.

Set a thief to catch a thief. Get on to the local gun club. If they're any good they'll do most of your pest control and keep an eye on who's coming and going. The lads around here are brilliant. No strangers hunting and all the vermin control done.

Kevhog1988

freedominacup wrote: »

Set a thief to catch a thief. Get on to the local gun club. If they're any good they'll do most of your pest control and keep an eye on who's coming and going. The lads around here are brilliant. No strangers hunting and all the vermin control done.

There seems to be very few rabbits where we are in kildare

Greengrass1

freedominacup wrote: »

Set a thief to catch a thief. Get on to the local gun club. If they're any good they'll do most of your pest control and keep an eye on who's coming and going. The lads around here are brilliant. No strangers hunting and all the vermin control done.

Gun club??
Them are the lads that did it before, came in without asking. Started shooting under the house if a sunday morning.
Told them all before come in and ask we've no problem as long as you ask.
One of these lads was yold beforw to come and ask. Father took his narg card and reported.
This lad said today my father asked him to come in
Aswell he said ye cant go into farmers yards

moonshadow

We had lads on the land last year with dogs "hunting"......
They were eventually caught burgling neighbours having scouted the fields (and houses) RUN THEM !

whelan2

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Gun club??
Them are the lads that did it before, came in without asking. Started shooting under the house if a sunday morning.
Told them all before come in and ask we've no problem as long as you ask.
One of these lads was yold beforw to come and ask. Father took his narg card and reported.
This lad said today my father asked him to come in
Aswell he said ye cant go into farmers yards

no gun club members allowed near our yard, they can go up the fields. Had a bit of a stand off with them a few years ago as they never in my life time asked could they shoot here, final straw was when a dog came into the yard a few months after daughter had been attacked by a dog:mad::mad: They now ask each year

Greengrass1

whelan2 wrote: »

no gun club members allowed near our yard, they can go up the fields. Had a bit of a stand off with them a few years ago as they never in my life time asked could they shoot here, final straw was when a dog came into the yard a few months after daughter had been attacked by a dog:mad::mad: They now ask each year

Sly way of doing it.
Told them all any farmer wants us the courtesy of being asked

freedominacup

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Gun club??
Them are the lads that did it before, came in without asking. Started shooting under the house if a sunday morning.
Told them all before come in and ask we've no problem as long as you ask.
One of these lads was yold beforw to come and ask. Father took his narg card and reported.
This lad said today my father asked him to come in
Aswell he said ye cant go into farmers yards

The local lads have our ground preserved. They release their own pheasants most years and couldn't be more sensible about when and where they shoot. They don't ask though as such though most of them would pass through the yard and let you know they were around out of pheasant season. It's working well for us.

Greengrass1

freedominacup wrote: »

The local lads have our ground preserved. They release their own pheasants most years and couldn't be more sensible about when and where they shoot. They don't ask though as such though most of them would pass through the yard and let you know they were around out of pheasant season. It's working well for us.

Id have no problem with that. There waa even a pen for rearing pheasants in our wood and thwy coukd use it only fir the way they went about it

Sam Kade

Some clown in our local forestry last week with a rifle :eek: firing shots every couple of minutes I thought the hunting season doesn't begin until November.

Birdnuts

Sam Kade wrote: »

Some clown in our local forestry last week with a rifle :eek: firing shots every couple of minutes I thought the hunting season doesn't begin until November.

Deer and duck are in season from the start of this month. Pheasant shooting kicks off in November.

Sam Kade

Birdnuts wrote: »

Deer and duck are in season from the start of this month. Pheasant shooting kicks off in November.

Definitely no deer or duck in our forestry would they be shooting rabbits? Either way there is a notice at the entrance "strictly no hunting".

Feckthis

Sam Kade wrote: »

Some clown in our local forestry last week with a rifle :eek: firing shots every couple of minutes I thought the hunting season doesn't begin until November.

Must be deer in your area. Wouldn't be using a rifle for ducks.

Birdnuts

Sam Kade wrote: »

Definitely no deer or duck in our forestry would they be shooting rabbits? ".

Rabbits or foxes

Sam Kade

Feckthis wrote: »

Must be deer in your area. Wouldn't be using a rifle for ducks.

No deer the forestry is only 25 acres.

Reggie.

Sam Kade wrote: »

No deer the forestry is only 25 acres.

Ya never know deer can wander. Small forest near mullingar aabout 10 or 15 acres and I spotted deer in it before. They wander in from the bigger woods a few miles away I'm guessing

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

Ya never know deer can wander. Small forest near mullingar aabout 10 or 15 acres and I spotted deer in it before. They wander in from the bigger woods a few miles away I'm guessing

We have a big forest over us. Possibly 50 ac deer ramble over wholr country during night and spend day in wood. Had them in middle of cows a few times this spring

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

We have a big forest over us. Possibly 50 ac deer ramble over wholr country during night and spend day in wood. Had them in middle of cows a few times this spring

Some craic milking them

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

Some craic milking them

Going to get them shot. They carru tb

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Going to get them shot. They carru tb

Make sure the shooters have a permit to shoot them

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

Make sure the shooters have a permit to shoot them

Already sorted have a family friend doing it

Base price

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Going to get them shot. They carru tb

They can carry TB... the same as other mammalians can - you and me included.
However, if ye can get a few loins butchered from the vermin deer. Put them in the freezer to keep.
I have several yum yum recipes for venison

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Ya never know deer can wander. Small forest near mullingar aabout 10 or 15 acres and I spotted deer in it before. They wander in from the bigger woods a few miles away I'm guessing

we have no forest and we have deer:(

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

we have no forest and we have deer:(

Ya must have real good grass so

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Ya must have real good grass so

was 9 of them earlier in year, rang local wildlife ranger, he said to fill in form and would see what he could do, that was the last i heard from him. Had a lad came in on 1st september looking to shoot them , he has a licence. Saw the stag the other day.

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

was 9 of them earlier in year, rang local wildlife ranger, he said to fill in form and would see what he could do, that was the last i heard from him. Had a lad came in on 1st september looking to shoot them , he has a licince. Saw the stag the other day.

Stay clear of the stag anyway

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Stay clear of the stag anyway

they are very wild. The speed they can run at is unreal, jump ditches no bother:eek:

Greengrass1

whelan2 wrote: »

they are very wild. The speed they can run at is unreal, jump ditches no bother:eek:

I had a young stag in the spring tgat would be with the cows all the time
Got within a few ft of him in the half dark before I seen him.
They do jump some height off the ground

No Username Yet

guys training dogs usually don't carry guns big enough for deer
probably a .22 popping a few bunny's

Reggie.

No Username Yet wrote: »

guys training dogs usually don't carry guns big enough for deer
probably a .22 popping a few bunny's

Ya want a .24 at least for deer

foxylock

The father came across a couple of lads in the field the other night and they legged it. Used to have a big problem with poachers here a couple years back but sorted it. They getting brave again!!

feartuath

Reggie. wrote: »

Stay clear of the stag anyway

Stay well clear of any Red Stags for the next few weeks,they are starting to rut and best avoided.
I heard them roaring on the hill last night.

foxylock

feartuath wrote: »

Stay well clear of any Red Stags for the next few weeks,they are starting to rut and best avoided.
I heard them roaring on the hill last night.

sure they were stags?? Some strange goings on in them thar hills :-o

Capercaille

Was cutting silage at weekend and found a couple of empty shotgun casings on the farm.

trixi2011

worked on a farm a few years ago on a big estate and a deer used run with the milking cows, came up the milking parlour a few times

Genghis Cant

The fcukers with the lurchers are the worse of the lot of them. The arrive by the van load, go where they please and terrorise the Hares (and anything else that crosses their path) in the whole parish. Zero respect for anyone or anything. It's only a matter of time before some of them come to a sticky end.

Nekarsulm

loosely related to poaching, the lad that had ten heifers rustled a few weeks ago, and had them returned, made the front page of the local paper. The Anglo Celt. Anyone who knows him kmows the kind of justice he would mete out to some body who crossed him. Rustler picked the wrong cattle this time. !!
Rustler lucky to be still able to walk...........;-)

IrishHomer

OP I just sent you a PM

Zoo4m8

Genghis Cant wrote: »

The fcukers with the lurchers are the worse of the lot of them. The arrive by the van load, go where they please and terrorise the Hares (and anything else that crosses their path) in the whole parish. Zero respect for anyone or anything. It's only a matter of time before some of them come to a sticky end.

Those lads were very active in this neck of the woods a couple years ago till one night they returned to their van to find it burning nicely, probably an electrical fault or something..:) End of problem...

freedominacup

Zoo4m8 wrote: »

Those lads were very active in this neck of the woods a couple years ago till one night they returned to their van to find it burning nicely, probably an electrical fault or something..:) End of problem...

Shocking how badly carrying around lurchers affects van wiring. I see this becoming a problem of epidemic proportions.

Cattlepen

Zoo4m8 wrote: »

Those lads were very active in this neck of the woods a couple years ago till one night they returned to their van to find it burning nicely, probably an electrical fault or something..:) End of problem...

They have access to matches aswell. Tell the areas arsonist to be careful

Conor556

Genghis Cant wrote: »

The fcukers with the lurchers are the worse of the lot of them. The arrive by the van load, go where they please and terrorise the Hares (and anything else that crosses their path) in the whole parish. Zero respect for anyone or anything. It's only a matter of time before some of them come to a sticky end.

Dont paint all with the same brush,, I have being lamping with a lurcher since first year,, I always ask the landowners before I go in, walk straight to the door with lamp and dog and who ever is with me (never more than 3 of us) and tell exactly what we are doing and make sure there is no stock in the fields I want to go,, Just waiting for the evenings to close in another bit and ill be starting again and cant wait,,, I usually bring the lads whos land I use regularly a nice lump of fresh of rabbit meat when I catch em,,, no point in killing them and just throwing them away, and brother and few of his friends use the fur for tying fishing flys!

Dawggone

Cattlepen wrote: »

They have access to matches aswell. Tell the areas arsonist to be careful

People that play with fire can get their fingers burned.....

Who has the most to lose?

Call the cops. They may not be too busy squaring off traffic fines.

Dawggone

Conor556 wrote: »

Dont paint all with the same brush,, I have being lamping with a lurcher since first year,, I always ask the landowners before I go in, walk straight to the door with lamp and dog and who ever is with me (never more than 3 of us) and tell exactly what we are doing and make sure there is no stock in the fields I want to go,, Just waiting for the evenings to close in another bit and ill be starting again and cant wait,,, I usually bring the lads whos land I use regularly a nice lump of fresh of rabbit meat when I catch em,,, no point in killing them and just throwing them away, and brother and few of his friends use the fur for tying fishing flys!

+1. Fell into that scene as well as a lad. The memories.

Loved it.
Lost my best ever lurcher to a gate.
I'll take rabbit over chicken any day.

Cattlepen

Funny incident with this a few years ago. Local wildlife officer heard there was trouble with these guys and said he had powers of arrest. He saw their van in the locality and rang the guards for backup. Two young guards came out eager to help him with the arrest until they saw the six massive savages coming across the field with lurchers and dead hares. They **** themselves, jumped into the squad, took off their ties and said their shift was over and drove away like the clappers leaving the wildlife officer standing there. The big savages asked him what he was looking at and he said "nothing". He seemed to forget all about his powers of arrest

Sam Kade

Cattlepen wrote: »

Funny incident with this a few years ago. Local wildlife officer heard there was trouble with these guys and said he had powers of arrest. He saw their van in the locality and rang the guards for backup. Two young guards came out eager to help him with the arrest until they saw the six massive savages coming across the field with lurchers and dead hares. They **** themselves, jumped into the squad, took off their ties and said their shift was over and drove away like the clappers leaving the wildlife officer standing there. The big savages asked him what he was looking at and he said "nothing". He seemed to forget all about his powers of arrest

Who survived to relay the story?

Cattlepen

Sam Kade wrote: »

Who survived to relay the story?

The wildlife ranger told me this himself

Sam Kade

Cattlepen wrote: »

The wildlife ranger told me this himself

So he told you how he nearly shat himself, not many would do that.

Cattlepen

Sam Kade wrote: »

So he told you how he nearly shat himself, not many would do that.

That's what he told me. Do you think I'm spinning tall tales or something?

Username John

Sam Kade wrote: »

So he told you how he nearly shat himself, not many would do that.

Was it not the cops shat themselves in the story