Hunting permission

Rob.blair84

what way do you all get permission to hunt on land , not necessarily dear , but rabbits, birds and the likes …

Do you all just rock up to a farmers door and ask ?

Thank you all.

alex90

Pretty much cold calling has worked for me, ive cards with my name, number, email and insurance company on them which definitely helps soften any scepticism or fear that im trying to scope a place for nefarious reasons

Rob.blair84

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123311925#Comment_123311925

cheers , thanks for the tips.

GaryKE.

I do the exact same, got 100 cards from vistaprint for no money, give all me relevant details on it, then knock on doors and put in post boxes, keep em in me wallet and if I see any jeeps pulled in with sheep trailer on it then walk over and hand em one. Same with jockeys hand to them also as last thing they want is to have a horse break a leg in a rabbit hole.

I also advertise on farming forums, placed one in the farming sub here on boards for my area and have got a couple of call backs for foxing, once you get the foxing permission sure ya can just say to farmer can I do the rabbit(if land has em), crows, pigeons, magpies for them.

Getting in good with one farmer is worth handing out 100 cards as they will talk ya up to others they know and before long ya will have yourself a bit of land to shoot.

Rob.blair84

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123314158#Comment_123314158

jayus that’s brilliant advice , good to know where to start as it can be a bit of a mine field getting going

Thank you very much

GaryKE.

Did ya get any permissions?

Rob.blair84

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123501695#Comment_123501695

haven’t started the ball rolling yet as was waiting to do the deer starting cert first , so sorted that the other weekend, so now getting the ball rolling looking into putting a deposit on a 308 , so once thats in motion at least then i can start knocking on doors as everything should be in place by the time i get the go ahead .. I’m mostly in the Wicklow area so should be hard enough as I hear its very hard to get permission around this way .

GaryKE.

Yeah I heard the same as ya have em all from Dublin looking for permission there also. I will pm you something that worked for me you can try.

Gman2021

Knocking on doors and just asking locals is the best way to get into places. It’s happened to me a few times that I’ve spotted deer in a field and then a few weeks / months later I’ve by chance spotted the farmer in the field and asked them if I could get in for a shot. Yet to be told no.

Rob.blair84

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123507168#Comment_123507168

time to start getting out there and talking to farmers