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mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 10:53 am Post subject: Phat pheasants
There's one sitting on the garden wall as I type: only 3m away, through the window. How can I catch it?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45676
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 10:55 am Post subject:
My cousins (grew up in Pakistan) can just sort of creep up on them and grab 'em, they're also fairly handy with catapaults (dunno how legal that is though)

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 10:58 am Post subject:
Soak some raisins in rum or brandy, put them out and wait for them to get drunk.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 11:04 am Post subject:
Actually, I did try the 'creeping up' thing: I managed to get a child's fishing net over one! And it was watching at the time. How stupid can a bird be? The soaked raisin idea sound sfamiliar. Now, what spirit have I got to hand?

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 11:13 am Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

The soaked raisin idea sound sfamiliar

Mochyn, the Champion of the World!

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 12:09 pm Post subject:
Don't forget you 'officially' need a game licence to kill one.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 12:12 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Don't forget you 'officially' need a game licence to kill one.

Only if she is going to sell it, surely.

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 12:21 pm Post subject:
I think the licence is for taking and killing.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 12:33 pm Post subject:

Judith wrote:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Don't forget you 'officially' need a game licence to kill one.

Only if she is going to sell it, surely.

Nope, you need a licence to kill game even for your own consumption IIRC. It's one of our delightful laws that costs more to administer than it raises. There should be more details on the BSAC site.

Of course the chances of a bobby who is up-to-speed on game laws wondering past your house as you do the deed must be very slim.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 12:35 pm Post subject:
How are the British Sub Aqua Club involved? BASC surely.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 12:36 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Of course the chances of a bobby who is up-to-speed on game laws wondering past your house as you do the deed must be very slim.

And the ex-bobby who dropped off a couple of pheasants for me last weekend must have a short memory

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 12:44 pm Post subject:
Mochyn might just get away without being sent to the tower. You don't need a licence if you are on "enclosed lands" and you are the occupier of said enclosed lands. So in her back garden she should be OK.

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 1:46 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

How are the British Sub Aqua Club involved?

That's for if you want to catch underwater pheasants.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 2:19 pm Post subject:

Judith wrote:

Mochyn might just get away without being sent to the tower. You don't need a licence if you are on "enclosed lands" and you are the occupier of said enclosed lands. So in her back garden she should be OK.

Excellent, there are two or three cocks in my back garden most mornings

sean
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 05 2:27 pm Post subject:
Must resist...must resist.

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