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Dera All,

Good News!!!

The shoot that is next to my woodland sems to have reformed itself!

Those with a long memory will recall that I was basically finding my
woodland an extension of someone else's pheasnt shoot, and a shoot that was
clearly dumping more artic-lorry loads of pheasants into the environment
than the environment could withstand.

Part of this improvement I put down to the good offices of the Code of Good
Shooting Practice (or rather, due to the good and honest men on Code of GSP,
as there are some less-than-honest men on CoGSP). Other I put down to me
kicking shooting in the teeth and being a skilled ex-environmetal
campaigner.

This year I have a few pheasants on my land, in quite accepable 'decorative'
quantities, and can't complin. In the past it was like living on a chicken
farm.


Theo H

 

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"Theo Hopkins" <theo@theohopkins.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Dera All,
>
> Good News!!!
>
> The shoot that is next to my woodland sems to have reformed itself!
>
> Those with a long memory will recall that I was basically finding my
> woodland an extension of someone else's pheasnt shoot, and a shoot that
was
> clearly dumping more artic-lorry loads of pheasants into the environment
> than the environment could withstand.
>
> Part of this improvement I put down to the good offices of the Code of
Good
> Shooting Practice (or rather, due to the good and honest men on Code of
GSP,
> as there are some less-than-honest men on CoGSP). Other I put down to me
> kicking shooting in the teeth and being a skilled ex-environmetal
> campaigner.
>
> This year I have a few pheasants on my land, in quite accepable
'decorative'
> quantities, and can't complin. In the past it was like living on a chicken
> farm.
>
>
> Theo H


Oh. I may as well name the good and honest men, (see above) on the CoGSP to
give them thanks here on-line.

1. Mike Swan on behalf of the Game Conservancy
2. Stewart Scull of BASC (when he took finally things seriously
.....eventually he even pinched some of my ecological complains to illustrate
an article in the Shooting Times about the commercialisation of shooting
leading to profit-driven bad practice )

The Chair of the CoGSP is (IMHO) incompetent - at least when dealing with
Joe Pubic, and should be ditched. And one member is corrupt/venal, but I
will
not publish his name nor the organisation he represents on the CoGSP. Let
bygones be bygones?

And finally, I don't blame the keeper at my local shoot for the bad things
that happened, the problem was a "townie" shoot owner - and it was the
keeper who called him a "townie" once when we were chatting about things.


Theo

 

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>The Chair of the CoGSP is (IMHO) incompetent - at least when dealing with
>Joe Pubic, and should be ditched. And one member is corrupt/venal, but I
>will
>not publish his name nor the organisation he represents on the CoGSP. Let
>bygones be bygones?
>
>And finally, I don't blame the keeper at my local shoot for the bad things
>that happened, the problem was a "townie" shoot owner - and it was the
>keeper who called him a "townie" once when we were chatting about things.
>
>
>Theo

I'm completely lost now Theo..

Sorry bout the F**k off tho

Robbie

 

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"hungryrob" <hungryrob@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> >The Chair of the CoGSP is (IMHO) incompetent - at least when dealing with
> >Joe Pubic, and should be ditched. And one member is corrupt/venal, but I
> >will
> >not publish his name nor the organisation he represents on the CoGSP. Let
> >bygones be bygones?
> >
> >And finally, I don't blame the keeper at my local shoot for the bad
things
> >that happened, the problem was a "townie" shoot owner - and it was the
> >keeper who called him a "townie" once when we were chatting about things.
> >
> >
> >Theo
>
> I'm completely lost now Theo..
>
> Sorry bout the F**k off tho
>
> Robbie

Basically I had the "Shoot from hell" as a direct neighbour to conservation
woodland I own/manage. As part of finding out about shooting I often posted
to this NG. I am an anti in the sense that I don't approve of people
shooting what they don't eat. The paying guns on my shoot from hell were
putting down individual bags up to 60 each. I now live next to a small
'farmer shoot'. It's quite different, and Farmer Paul is quite happy with a
personal bag of three birds. Also, the pheasants being at low density don't
damage the environment. And I am more than happy to take the odd bird from
him.

I tried to resolve shoot from hell via the CoGSP. To start with they would
not take me seriously. It was only when Mike Swan got involved things stated
to move. The venal/corrupt thing that one of the members of the CoGSP was
the agent who sold the shooting at Shoot from Hell. He did all that was
possible to prevent resolution of my problem because this would have meant
him loosing a shoot that was, for him, one of the core shoots he was
selling. This was despite him at an earlier date being reported in the
Shooting Times saying (roughly) there was no conflict of interests between
his position on CoGSP and his activity of being MD of one of the most
prestigious sporting agent in UK as he would not sell shooting that
contravened the CoGSP - but he did.

Theo H

PS. As far as I am concerned I am very happy to have foxes on my land. That
means to me there are plenty of woodmice, etc, around so the ecology is
doing OK.

 

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Glad to hear that all's well that ends well Theo, cheers, Norman.