my dog is p****d off

[stubbojo]

my name is finn
i loved retrieving wood pigeon every now and then , ha ho , i will just dream of sinking my knashers into packhams b******s .........

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[Steve Dennington]

Have I missed something? Packham surely hasn't managed to make it illegal to shoot woodies has he?

[lakefisher]

He did - but apparently its just been rescinded - see here
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 58471.html

[SmellySmelt]

This all started from the hunting ban in 2004. That was their first strike.

[stubbojo]

He did - but apparently its just been rescinded - see here
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 58471.html

no pal you cant shoot woodies on a stubble field ......its now called indiscriminately shooting of wildlife and you will be prosecuted ...sad but true
my mate nearly got arrested by the bobbies a few weeks back..........thats including air rifles

[stubbojo]

Have I missed something? Packham surely hasn't managed to make it illegal to shoot woodies has he?

he has instigated it all and now its the law .......

[stubbojo]

This all started from the hunting ban in 2004. That was their first strike.

crafty t***s this all went down throughout the pandemic and it got sneaked in the backdoor while we was not focused on doing any shooting.... as you could not go out and fish or shoot
2019/2020/2021.....sneaky t***s

[stubbojo]

theirs going to be a pigeon boom with hardly any getting shot ......the downside the farmers will lose out yet again .....
it makes sense to keep the numbers down .....wood pigeons can do a lot of damage to crops

[Mike J]

theirs going to be a pigeon boom with hardly any getting shot ......the downside the farmers will lose out yet again .....
it makes sense to keep the numbers down .....wood pigeons can do a lot of damage to crops

Years back we had to main forms woodpigeon control
One was to go nest poking (no giggling at the back)! which involved walking the hedgerows in summer and poking the woodies nests off the limbs of the trees, it didn't matter if there were chicks or eggs, just shove the whole lot off the branch and onto the next.

The other was organsised roost shoots which were held on specific nights across the whole country after the game shooting season ended. If you were involved there were several advantages, cartridges were subsidised by apx 60% by the Min of Ag to local Rabbit Clearance Societies, the other you could be invited to shoot in the woods of the large estates where under normal curumstances it was forbidden even to enter.

Nest poking simply encouraged pigeons to breed all year round, subsidised cartridges ended when individuals were caught using them for clay shooting.

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[piker al]

theirs going to be a pigeon boom with hardly any getting shot ......the downside the farmers will lose out yet again .....
it makes sense to keep the numbers down .....wood pigeons can do a lot of damage to crops

Years back we had to main forms woodpigeon control
One was to go nest poking (no giggling at the back)! which involved walking the hedgerows in summer and poking the woodies nests off the limbs of the trees, it didn't matter if there were chicks or eggs, just shove the whole lot off the branch and onto the next.

The other was organsised roost shoots which were held on specific nights across the whole country after the game shooting season ended. If you were involved there were several advantages, cartridges were subsidised by apx 60% by the Min of Ag to local Rabbit Clearance Societies, the other you could be invited to shoot in the woods of the large estates where under normal curumstances it was forbidden even to enter.

Nest poking simply encouraged pigeons to breed all year round, subsidised cartridges ended when individuals were caught using them for clay shooting.

.

It’s a bit like Cormorant control Mike, when my dad was younger if you shot a cormorant on the solway and snipped if it’s top beak then sent away to rivers authority u got money back, plenty salmon back then and not many cormorants now it’s reversed and the salmon are almost extinct

[stubbojo]

theirs going to be a pigeon boom with hardly any getting shot ......the downside the farmers will lose out yet again .....
it makes sense to keep the numbers down .....wood pigeons can do a lot of damage to crops

Years back we had to main forms woodpigeon control
One was to go nest poking (no giggling at the back)! which involved walking the hedgerows in summer and poking the woodies nests off the limbs of the trees, it didn't matter if there were chicks or eggs, just shove the whole lot off the branch and onto the next.

The other was organsised roost shoots which were held on specific nights across the whole country after the game shooting season ended. If you were involved there were several advantages, cartridges were subsidised by apx 60% by the Min of Ag to local Rabbit Clearance Societies, the other you could be invited to shoot in the woods of the large estates where under normal curumstances it was forbidden even to enter.

Nest poking simply encouraged pigeons to breed all year round, subsidised cartridges ended when individuals were caught using them for clay shooting.

.

It’s a bit like Cormorant control Mike, when my dad was younger if you shot a cormorant on the solway and snipped if it’s top beak then sent away to rivers authority u got money back, plenty salmon back then and not many cormorants now it’s reversed and the salmon are almost extinct

trouble is these do gooders..... dont do much good..... in the long term , its all finely balanced nature ok protect birds , but thats what happens they start eating all your salmon and other fish , just control the numbers like we always have ......you dont have to wipe a species out ......its called conservation .......but i get fed up trying to explain it to people who dont want to listen ....its called ignorance........

rant over

[Alex Fox]

theirs going to be a pigeon boom with hardly any getting shot ......the downside the farmers will lose out yet again .....
it makes sense to keep the numbers down .....wood pigeons can do a lot of damage to crops

Years back we had to main forms woodpigeon control
One was to go nest poking (no giggling at the back)! which involved walking the hedgerows in summer and poking the woodies nests off the limbs of the trees, it didn't matter if there were chicks or eggs, just shove the whole lot off the branch and onto the next.

The other was organsised roost shoots which were held on specific nights across the whole country after the game shooting season ended. If you were involved there were several advantages, cartridges were subsidised by apx 60% by the Min of Ag to local Rabbit Clearance Societies, the other you could be invited to shoot in the woods of the large estates where under normal curumstances it was forbidden even to enter.

Nest poking simply encouraged pigeons to breed all year round, subsidised cartridges ended when individuals were caught using them for clay shooting.

.

It’s a bit like Cormorant control Mike, when my dad was younger if you shot a cormorant on the solway and snipped if it’s top beak then sent away to rivers authority u got money back, plenty salmon back then and not many cormorants now it’s reversed and the salmon are almost extinct

trouble is these do gooders..... dont do much good..... in the long term , its all finely balanced nature ok protect birds , but thats what happens they start eating all your salmon and other fish , just control the numbers like we always have ......you dont have to wipe a species out ......its called conservation .......but i get fed up trying to explain it to people who dont want to listen ....its called ignorance........

rant over

The problem with all these bans, is once they are through and become law ... the do gooders are already plotting to ban the next thing, many of them have nothing better to do in life.

[stubbojo]

theirs going to be a pigeon boom with hardly any getting shot ......the downside the farmers will lose out yet again .....
it makes sense to keep the numbers down .....wood pigeons can do a lot of damage to crops

Years back we had to main forms woodpigeon control
One was to go nest poking (no giggling at the back)! which involved walking the hedgerows in summer and poking the woodies nests off the limbs of the trees, it didn't matter if there were chicks or eggs, just shove the whole lot off the branch and onto the next.

The other was organsised roost shoots which were held on specific nights across the whole country after the game shooting season ended. If you were involved there were several advantages, cartridges were subsidised by apx 60% by the Min of Ag to local Rabbit Clearance Societies, the other you could be invited to shoot in the woods of the large estates where under normal curumstances it was forbidden even to enter.

Nest poking simply encouraged pigeons to breed all year round, subsidised cartridges ended when individuals were caught using them for clay shooting.

.

It’s a bit like Cormorant control Mike, when my dad was younger if you shot a cormorant on the solway and snipped if it’s top beak then sent away to rivers authority u got money back, plenty salmon back then and not many cormorants now it’s reversed and the salmon are almost extinct

trouble is these do gooders..... dont do much good..... in the long term , its all finely balanced nature ok protect birds , but thats what happens they start eating all your salmon and other fish , just control the numbers like we always have ......you dont have to wipe a species out ......its called conservation .......but i get fed up trying to explain it to people who dont want to listen ....its called ignorance........

rant over

The problem with all these bans, is once they are through and become law ... the do gooders are already plotting to ban the next thing, many of them have nothing better to do in life.

how right you are alex , but they cant see the damage they are doing long term..... it all has a knock on effect ...which is not apparent straight away .......like the otter situation and seals entering the rivers , it all knock on effects ....

[davelumb]

theirs going to be a pigeon boom with hardly any getting shot ......the downside the farmers will lose out yet again .....
it makes sense to keep the numbers down .....wood pigeons can do a lot of damage to crops

Years back we had to main forms woodpigeon control
One was to go nest poking (no giggling at the back)! which involved walking the hedgerows in summer and poking the woodies nests off the limbs of the trees, it didn't matter if there were chicks or eggs, just shove the whole lot off the branch and onto the next.

The other was organsised roost shoots which were held on specific nights across the whole country after the game shooting season ended. If you were involved there were several advantages, cartridges were subsidised by apx 60% by the Min of Ag to local Rabbit Clearance Societies, the other you could be invited to shoot in the woods of the large estates where under normal curumstances it was forbidden even to enter.

Nest poking simply encouraged pigeons to breed all year round, subsidised cartridges ended when individuals were caught using them for clay shooting.

.

It’s a bit like Cormorant control Mike, when my dad was younger if you shot a cormorant on the solway and snipped if it’s top beak then sent away to rivers authority u got money back, plenty salmon back then and not many cormorants now it’s reversed and the salmon are almost extinct

trouble is these do gooders..... dont do much good..... in the long term , its all finely balanced nature ok protect birds , but thats what happens they start eating all your salmon and other fish , just control the numbers like we always have ......you dont have to wipe a species out ......its called conservation .......but i get fed up trying to explain it to people who dont want to listen ....its called ignorance........

rant over

The problem with all these bans, is once they are through and become law ... the do gooders are already plotting to ban the next thing, many of them have nothing better to do in life.

Thou shall not kill anything flluffy or feathery.

[Alex Fox]

theirs going to be a pigeon boom with hardly any getting shot ......the downside the farmers will lose out yet again .....
it makes sense to keep the numbers down .....wood pigeons can do a lot of damage to crops

Years back we had to main forms woodpigeon control
One was to go nest poking (no giggling at the back)! which involved walking the hedgerows in summer and poking the woodies nests off the limbs of the trees, it didn't matter if there were chicks or eggs, just shove the whole lot off the branch and onto the next.

The other was organsised roost shoots which were held on specific nights across the whole country after the game shooting season ended. If you were involved there were several advantages, cartridges were subsidised by apx 60% by the Min of Ag to local Rabbit Clearance Societies, the other you could be invited to shoot in the woods of the large estates where under normal curumstances it was forbidden even to enter.

Nest poking simply encouraged pigeons to breed all year round, subsidised cartridges ended when individuals were caught using them for clay shooting.

.

It’s a bit like Cormorant control Mike, when my dad was younger if you shot a cormorant on the solway and snipped if it’s top beak then sent away to rivers authority u got money back, plenty salmon back then and not many cormorants now it’s reversed and the salmon are almost extinct

trouble is these do gooders..... dont do much good..... in the long term , its all finely balanced nature ok protect birds , but thats what happens they start eating all your salmon and other fish , just control the numbers like we always have ......you dont have to wipe a species out ......its called conservation .......but i get fed up trying to explain it to people who dont want to listen ....its called ignorance........

rant over

The problem with all these bans, is once they are through and become law ... the do gooders are already plotting to ban the next thing, many of them have nothing better to do in life.

Thou shall not kill anything flluffy or feathery.

And one day it will be ... thou shall not yank anything fishy out of the water unless you are going to eat it

[davelumb]

theirs going to be a pigeon boom with hardly any getting shot ......the downside the farmers will lose out yet again .....
it makes sense to keep the numbers down .....wood pigeons can do a lot of damage to crops

Years back we had to main forms woodpigeon control
One was to go nest poking (no giggling at the back)! which involved walking the hedgerows in summer and poking the woodies nests off the limbs of the trees, it didn't matter if there were chicks or eggs, just shove the whole lot off the branch and onto the next.

The other was organsised roost shoots which were held on specific nights across the whole country after the game shooting season ended. If you were involved there were several advantages, cartridges were subsidised by apx 60% by the Min of Ag to local Rabbit Clearance Societies, the other you could be invited to shoot in the woods of the large estates where under normal curumstances it was forbidden even to enter.

Nest poking simply encouraged pigeons to breed all year round, subsidised cartridges ended when individuals were caught using them for clay shooting.

.

It’s a bit like Cormorant control Mike, when my dad was younger if you shot a cormorant on the solway and snipped if it’s top beak then sent away to rivers authority u got money back, plenty salmon back then and not many cormorants now it’s reversed and the salmon are almost extinct

trouble is these do gooders..... dont do much good..... in the long term , its all finely balanced nature ok protect birds , but thats what happens they start eating all your salmon and other fish , just control the numbers like we always have ......you dont have to wipe a species out ......its called conservation .......but i get fed up trying to explain it to people who dont want to listen ....its called ignorance........

rant over

The problem with all these bans, is once they are through and become law ... the do gooders are already plotting to ban the next thing, many of them have nothing better to do in life.

Thou shall not kill anything flluffy or feathery.

And one day it will be ... thou shall not yank anything fishy out of the water unless you are going to eat it

Not even to eat when all diets are plant based or lab grown.

[TidalD]

Can’t we just ban do gooders??? Or take them all shark fishing..