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Post by sakorifle on Jul 21, 2016 10:58:08 GMT -5
Greetings
Just a bit of an update.
I need twelve deer for the ninety animals in the cull.
Will we get them, i dont know, the grass is taller than me now, yes im a dwarf. lol
I am seeing them with the thermal imager but cannot see them through the binos or the scope, most annoying.
It is a full moon and contrary to what some experts tell you, deer do move differently ,and at the moment it is very quiet during daylight hours, i am seeing them with the thermal around ten thirty in the evening coming out, too dark to legally shoot them, so at the moment they have the edge.
The rut is starting to get underway but the fear is they are rutting durng the bright cooler night, i hope not becuase if they are not i should be able to call the twelve into me.
It has been a hard year this year, would i of had them if i had not taken the german client out who shot nothing.
I dont know, there is no doubt i would of shot between eight and ten myself that week, but one can only shoot them once, so have i already shot those ten, again i dont know.lol
Dont know a lot do i. lol
Well as one of the younger stalkers has informed me i am now the last of the dinasaurs on the job becuse the boss has put his retirement letter in so i am the most senior here now. lol
He started two years before me so he has his max pension in the fund, i am going to have to go on a little longer to get the maximum back, not that i mind becuase the pressure is completly off and i am going to enjoy myself for the next two years.
Had the lady telling me the rabbits are going crazy and a lot of young ones ase about, i informed her that is what rabbits do, have babies, lol
If she cut her grass then i would of kept on going t keep on top of the job, but as i told her there is no point i can only shoot what i can see, but i will have to go and make an attempt to keep her quiet.
right that is about it fo rthe time being i will be back out around eight pm to have another look and see if any deer are out making woopy. lol
regards
the last dinasour.
lol
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jul 21, 2016 11:46:31 GMT -5
Help me understand something. If your job is to control the deer population, why are there laws about night hunting for you? If getting the cull filled is the objective, why limit you?
How's it feel to be so close to retirement? You'll have to come visit us; I bet a bunch of us would gather to meet you.
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Post by sakorifle on Jul 22, 2016 11:28:08 GMT -5
greetings jon and group
Ok there is laws about night hunting all over the united kingdom .
In England where i am one can only night shoot with a special liscence to date i know of none been issued.
why? i really cannot work it out myself something to do with
"ITS NOT THE DONE THING OLD BOY ITS NOT CRICKET YOU KNOW"
Like i have said many, many times i am protecting trees ten hours a day the deer are eating them the other fourteen hours, lol
In Scotland four miles away again night shooting is liscenced but liscences are more freely given out, and i have done a lot of night shooting over there with a good friend of mine who does the same job, but for the private sector as apposed to me doing it for the goverment.
So no there is no chance of night shooting in England.
silly but there we go.
I look forward to retirement with mixed feelings i dont have to go but i probably will, I see how i feel at the time.
the great thing is there is nothing they can do to me now, at any time i can give six months notice and go with a pension, now that is a good feeling.
i feel sorry for the youngsters just starting it is a completly different job now to what it was when i started. the pension is nothing like as good, lot more bull in the job and health and safety cripples the job.
But i suppose every job is the same now.
I would love to come over wheni retire and it is on the must do list, coyote hunting only though, lol
I need eleven deer now, this morning i spotted a buck that i have been after for a week or two every time i seen him he ran.
Today was no exeption only difference was the wind was in my favour and i felt good.,lol
So as he was running i got down onto my dinasaur backside and extended the bipod, i gave a toot on the roe call and he stopped and turned to look at me, i quickly ranged him with the binos at 248yds got steady and sent the copper ttsx on its way, this time the copper worked and he fell to shot.
Hit him right through the shoulder perfect.
It was no bother to the labrador bailey finding him for me she has turned out to be an exeptional tracking dog.
It was a hot sweaty carry back onto the road though, lol
I have just read that on the 14th july the United kingdom decided it will not be banning lead shot,it never mentioned bullets so we will have to wait to see, but i suspect bullets will be ok as well.
Intresting to see what my firm does now, that they put us on copper.
Another example of the cart leading the horse, my firm it very good at that.
regards
to all
Billy
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jul 22, 2016 23:33:56 GMT -5
Billy, you need a dog sled for that lab.
I know that feeling when crossing the threshold of "you can't touch me now". They couldn't fire me at that point, but they could have put pressure on me to retire. I am now, and sure do enjoy it even though I wasn't expecting to go so soon.
Have you ever shot a stag? Do they have them over there somewhere?
Do you save any of the antlers, or does your firm not allow it?
I had a great time when I was in England, but was there for work. They seemed to expect me to work when would send me places ...go figure.
I was most surprised that the people weren't as friendly as I thought they would be. I expected everyone to be like Mr. Bean ...I am.
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Post by tenring on Jul 23, 2016 7:39:49 GMT -5
I guess I'm getting too old to understand how things work across the pond. Is the land you hunt on private, estates, government land or what ? Thinking how control works here, is it against the law [politics] to sell license to qualified citizens to participate in those "culls" ? Here the sales increase the revenue of the Department of Natural Resources and increases the opportunity of the citizenry to enjoy the great outdoors.
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Post by sakorifle on Jul 23, 2016 8:47:29 GMT -5
Greetings
Sent tenring a private message in answer to your questions
regards
Billy
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jul 23, 2016 14:08:13 GMT -5
Greetings Sent tenring a private message in answer to your questions regards Billy We all want to know the answer to those questions. |
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Post by nfalls116 on Jul 23, 2016 14:55:49 GMT -5
Greetings Sent tenring a private message in answer to your questions regards Billy We all want to know the answer to those questions. yeah Hillary no secret emails |
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Post by sakorifle on Jul 24, 2016 11:42:23 GMT -5
Thought would would. lol
I work for the goverment as a ranger my job is to look after all the wildlife in my area, part of that job is culling the deer herd to keep it under control and protect the young tree from them.
My area is 12,000 acre, part of the biggest man made forest in europe, i cull 200 a year then go anywhere else i am needed as does the rest of the team.
we shoot a few thousand roe deer a year between us.
we all use 308 rifles either tikka or sako we have a choice nowadays, but i was given a tikka i had no choice.
And i would recommend one to anyone without hesitation.
Yes john i have shot red stags and i have shot sikka stags,and fallow stags no munjack or chinese water deer yet.
i have not kept a lot of antlers but there is nothong stopping me if i wanted to.
i kept the fallow buck, sika stag and the red stags we were not allowed to keep they sell those for walking sticks etc., i have two roe heads.
There is no public right of shooting in the uk every bit of land is owned by someone, the goverment does allow limited shooting which is alway with one of us rangers, a weeks package is around one thousand pounds.
Sorry you did not find the folks that friendly john,were where you at in the uk.
regards
Hillary lol
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Post by sakorifle on Jul 24, 2016 11:47:08 GMT -5
just to let you know jon
we do have red deer and sika deer in the south of the forest district but not on my beat.
i dont want them, its a young mans game dragging them great things around.
lol
Hillary.lol
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jul 24, 2016 13:07:25 GMT -5
Thought would would. lol I work for the goverment as a ranger my job is to look after all the wildlife in my area, part of that job is culling the deer herd to keep it under control and protect the young tree from them. My area is 12,000 acre, part of the biggest man made forest in europe, i cull 200 a year then go anywhere else i am needed as does the rest of the team. we shoot a few thousand roe deer a year between us. we all use 308 rifles either tikka or sako we have a choice nowadays, but i was given a tikka i had no choice. And i would recommend one to anyone without hesitation. Yes john i have shot red stags and i have shot sikka stags,and fallow stags no munjack or chinese water deer yet. i have not kept a lot of antlers but there is nothong stopping me if i wanted to. i kept the fallow buck, sika stag and the red stags we were not allowed to keep they sell those for walking sticks etc., i have two roe heads. There is no public right of shooting in the uk every bit of land is owned by someone, the goverment does allow limited shooting which is alway with one of us rangers, a weeks package is around one thousand pounds. Sorry you did not find the folks that friendly john,were where you at in the uk. regards Hillary lol I think a big part of it was that the company I worked for and the company in Slough were not on good terms. We did visit London and Winchester, but the people didn't seem much different. I sure did love to hear them talk though. I was surprised at how many different accents I heard at the workplace. I had trouble understanding most of them, but the girl from Scotland was the most difficult to understand. One young lady had a perfect iconic English accent; I could listen to that girl talk all day. |
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Post by sakorifle on Jul 24, 2016 14:27:54 GMT -5
jon
you aint going to understand me then ,you have no chance, but i will bring a pen and paper with me and write it down and draw pictures, lol
when i go to the midlands my friend who has heard me speak for over thirty years has to tell them what i am saying i find it all very amusing.
bet they would understand if i swore at them though lol
Come up North here, is it completley different, everyone is friendly or we want to know why not
regards
Billy
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Post by onebentarrow on Jul 25, 2016 1:28:27 GMT -5
Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. I sure do apperiate it.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jul 25, 2016 13:29:28 GMT -5
jon you aint going to understand me then ,you have no chance, but i will bring a pen and paper with me and write it down and draw pictures, lol when i go to the midlands my friend who has heard me speak for over thirty years has to tell them what i am saying i find it all very amusing. bet they would understand if i swore at them though lol Come up North here, is it completley different, everyone is friendly or we want to know why not regards Billy Billy, when I went there, I'd never been to a big city before or been around big city people. We live in the heartland of the US; we're friendly here. I actually felt bad for the people living in London. I felt an oppression of high taxes, high prices and what seemed to me to be over-population. Few people here live in a double, most are single family houses. There, one has to be rich to live in a stand alone house. It was my first time on a subway. When I got on not many people were on it. I thought, I bet at times this thing is packed. Well, before I got to my destination I felt like a sardine crammed in a can. Up close and personal was an understatement. I was glad that I don't have a good sense of smell. I kept my hand on my wallet pocket and I was touching some part of another person's body at the same time. It was too tight in there to look down to see what else I was touching. It was an experience. I'm sure it's different when away from the big city. It was cool to see things older than my eyes had ever seen before; they were even older than my wife. |
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jul 26, 2016 12:32:33 GMT -5
I wish you well Billy. Thanks for sharing so much with us.
I'll be gone for a while.
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Post by tenring on Jul 29, 2016 6:19:10 GMT -5
Google maps worked for me. Those houses look so much like military housing on a lot of the bases here.
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Post by wesb81219 on Jul 30, 2016 17:25:20 GMT -5
Wow ... you must be one of the luckiest men alive. You get to hunt for a living. I don't imagine it could get much better than that.
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Post by sakorifle on Jul 31, 2016 8:24:06 GMT -5
Wow ... you must be one of the luckiest men alive. You get to hunt for a living. I don't imagine it could get much better than that. Yes i do, everyday of the week if i wanted to, yes it is a fantastic way to make a living but after 39yrs of it, it becomes a job like any other, the novelty wears off trying to achieve targets, season after season. Right now that i have said that i am going to tell you this If one must work. ITS THE BEST JOB IN THE COUNTRY. And i would not of changed a thing in my working life. Regards Billy. |
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Post by wesb81219 on Jul 31, 2016 19:08:22 GMT -5
I can definitely understand how the excitement wears away after so many years. However you are correct in the fact that if one must work it's a great job to have. Congratulations on such a great career!
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