Magpies

[dillydangler]

The General licence details, including lists of birds in each licence are here.

 

That law being quoted here about discharging firearms within 50 feet of a highway is highly ambiguous. The full wording again is :

 

It is an offence to discharge a firearm, including an airgun, within 50 feet of the centre of any highway. This includes roads, bridle-paths or public footpaths. The offence is complete if a member of the public is injured, endangered or even just alarmed by the incident.

Presumably it means that if no one is injured, endangered or even just alarmed then it is not an offence. Many rough shooters will shoot along roadside hedges and I've heard of some organised driven shoots even have stands on roads!

 

 

i work on a farm and if your a vegan please dont read on!.

 

we have planted recently some of next seasons crop.(cauli,sacoy,cab etc) and more to the point this summers crop (calabrese,primo,broccoly and cauli)

 

wood pidgeons,pheasants,rooks,magpies and canada geese have a taste for young planted shoots.even mr hare has a passion for young brassica.

 

the only thing to do is give them `lead` twice a day (they dont like it up em capn mannering).gas bangers help but you have to keep shooting the pest to keep them off.they aint daft.if no pest control was there the crop would be knackered.they get used to gas bangers!

 

the bonus is we get to eat alot of it (that hare has a bottle of claret waiting for it)

 

anyway as long as the gun (shotgun)is firing away from the road and used in a sensible manor as you state above there is no probs.well not in north devon

 

bring on the deliverance jokes

[corydoras]

The General licence details, including lists of birds in each licence are here.

 

That law being quoted here about discharging firearms within 50 feet of a highway is highly ambiguous. The full wording again is :

 

It is an offence to discharge a firearm, including an airgun, within 50 feet of the centre of any highway. This includes roads, bridle-paths or public footpaths. The offence is complete if a member of the public is injured, endangered or even just alarmed by the incident.

 

That's what the law says, verbatim.

 

Here is a link to a page with the current law as it pertains to air rifles.

http://www.airsportdirect.com/acatalog/ukairgunlawpage.html

Edited June 8, 2006 by corydoras