Packham is neither a Conservationist ,neither is he a wildlife enthusiast. He is a poisonous individual that gets perverted pleasure from preventing those of us that genuinely care for the countryside and it's wildlife ,from carrying out the essential management required to see our waders and game species from thriving . I have had the misfortune of having him on our estate some years ago to host Autumnwatch . A more ignorant individual you would struggle to find .

What pisses me off is seeing someone that has poached rabbits + hares,leaves the kill at the entrance what a shame killing just for the sake of killing.

Not all of us are like that,I could write a book on poaching.im out whilst the wind + rain blows everyone in bed I’m out,I will never take a harem.i hunt land,river,beach.i love it.use a lot of snares in so many different ways,use corn laced for pheasant,use all kind of nets,for land river,sea I work alone I always stay with the nets.i have taught myself to use a hessian sack with weight tied off keep weight + net separate.tie a long pc of string to attached to the lower end of the net attached to the weight at bottom of sack bend the net from right to left+ from left to right,continue until the net is completely inside sack,keep a long piece of string attached to top part of net,find a nice deep pool,tie the string to your trouser belt grab top of sack throw it as far as possible usually far end of pool,wait couple of minutes for sack to sink to the bottom of pool,start pulling the string attached to your belt back towards you,as the net is puled back,the net float parts comes to the surface of the pool.now your net is set,ready for the sea trout+ salmon.the float I use doesn’t show at the surface around an inch bellow the surface.if a bailiff walks buy he will see nothing. By the way I don’t poach for money,only for food,+ the freezer,I don’t buy meat,fish ,pheasant,pigeon..I’ve even after one proto type after another,I now able to snare a pheasants during the day,it’s a length of stainless steel stiff wire with a small piece of string ,it works time after time,the bird doesn’t. Suffer its dead in a second,keep practicing on your chicken ,place the string on the ground with open loop put some corn in this loop,it works everytime. Be ready to grab your chicken,otherwise you will have chicken for supper.

Very informative, thank you.

Good Evening, For What It’s Worth- Free Spirit- Hello - Turn Your Radio On I often am astounded how inaccurate people are and how often they get their information wrong about a person. More over I am astounded that this ‘Letter To Chris Packham’ has been allowed to be published as it is wholly inaccurate in any factual information and is only written to inspire hatred and abuse against a vulnerable adult. Are you aware that Chris Packham is Autistic and has Aspergers which means that he will not be able to process that his actions could potentially be misinterpreted but more over I am really amazed this this letter means that this gamekeeper has the power to stop the sun shining and the moon rising as well. The reason I am being sarcastic is that you as a game keeper cannot stop nature just like I cannot stop the seagulls from shitting all over my car or scratching around in the road outside our house looking for food that was once there decades ago before the road was built and this area was a field. Nature is a pre-programmed natural migratory pathway in all animals and nature evolves when the stronger species takes over and gets rid of the weaker species. What I find by this letter is the actions of a coward in order to inspire hatred against a vulnerable adult whom is trying to understand about his Autism and was encouraged using the SPELL Framework to learn and develop and from what I can see from this page you are trying to inspire hatred and abuse without actually knowing the true facts. So tell the world now as you are part of an association of game keepers, if you are so talented and able to change the world why 181 species of fish were declared extinct in 2023 due to the drought then? Not so clever then to stop a drought then are you, so therefore you must really work for South West Water whom have just been fined £151 million for sewerage leaks into the natural rivers in the U.K., and the £848 million Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust was fined by the Crown for failures that are so outstanding that in the end were laughable. Who for instance can be found accused and tried in the courts of harming a child in a hospital that does not even exist in a ward that does not exist and with a fake family that did not exist! That is about as dumb as this letter to Chris Packham is! HSH NFSHR 2024 © ™️ ®- BSc With Commendation In Health Studies - LLB

Steel does not kill larger game nearly as cleanly as lead. Anyone saying "steel breaks clays just as well" knows nothing about game shooting and is just a virtue signaller. (BASC, NGO fall into this category) Having to use more open choke just ruins the pellet density at any distance, try head/neck shooting a goose at 50 yards with 1/2 choke.

rspb has got to big

Cris packam has one interest above all else. That’s himself, if he could get more likes on a topic he is out there promoting himself , not the subject but himself

Maybe try to add real value like the eye piece and not the cheap stuff u got, Actual testing of the thermal starts at 06:48

just get on with it they take egg take all young birds thats one of reasons bird population ihas gone down to

the need to stop building houses on green belt land

These people are not poachers

Lead is more ethical, less wear on your firearms and kills more efficiently. The odds that an animal will die due to lead consumption is a lie.

As someone that grew up in Canada and now lives in the country in Europe I am saddened by the influence of city dwelling people that fetishize animals and ignore the big picture. People that think food comes from a grocery store and who think that without man's intervention "nature will sort itself out" ( to quote this vid) should leave the management of the countryside to those of us that understand it and love it because we live in it.

I had a three storey rabbit hutch which I used to leave open for the rabbit to come and go at will. I wondered why he stopped using it....2 days later I went outside and found a Magpie had gone in and ascended the two sets of stairs right to the top where the food was, next day there were two up there feeding. My Patterdale puppy immediately saw her opportunity, she followed the birds up the stairs and within the blink of an eye both were dead. The rabbit never returned to his mansion but chose to live under an old hay trailer in the field, every morning he came through the cat flap for a biscuit, the Patterdale and he were friends, he lived to be age 7.

Is there any route for mature individuals? I am 24 and crying to get out the army and become a keeper

Fantastic work, everyone. Especially the landowners and gamekeepers. We really need people who know and understand the countryside.

Ive beated and picked up all my life and these arnt poachers there miss leaded dickheads with the wrong tools in there hands come on there’s wrong in every sport and these are them problems but don’t blame the proper lurcher lads I walk on foot for miles for a few rabbits for my dogs and I’ll do anything for farmers rats etc help them out same with keepers for abit or rabbating or ferreting proper people who love our sport and heritage can stop these fools.

Stock up on lead ammo whilst you can still get it. Lead ban is not yet implemented and we should continue to oppose it. I won't be renewing my BASC membership as they have simply rolled over, which I believe is against the wishes of most of its members.

Such a lovely bird I absolutely love rooks ❤

Waited 18 months so far for a new grant, Devon & Cornwall, yet I'm being told by some that they are processing new grants in 3 months??? How can that be when they still have grants outstanding for such a length of time.

It is clear , this us a underhand tactic of the police not to issue certificates , Rfds are closing down all iver the country due to less demand for licenced weapons that have to have a ticket issued by the police to own, RFDs like everyone else have bills to pay it is s buisness to o which they have to produce paperwork with every sale dicumented , if no sales due to no licences being issued they go bust which is the inyention of the police forces across the UK , no Re zfDs no ammunition available to use through a weapon by a already licenced gun owner , this is a underhand attack in field sports with a long term olan to rid the uk of all types of weapons inbluding bow and arrow , catapult, crossbow ,knives etc , the police are laid via tax payers contributions and council tax , if businesses based on sales of country sports interests shut down nobodyvwill be able to purchase a rifle even though they have s valid certificate , its about time you all woke up to what is happening in the shithole United Kingdom soon to be run my a militant police force who have more and more ex army serving in the ranks , those soldiers may have been to the falklands and actually killed other soldiers , it is my understanding ghat once a sildier has taken a human life it makes it easier the second time , shoild that ex soldier be dealing with the general public , shojld that soldier be issued with a firearm certificate haveing taken a life already , ex armed forces are looked upon favourably by police forces because they are seen as one of the gang .

The police are using the slightest excuse not to issue certificates , they even snatch sub12lbft air rifles when attending disturbances. Yh his video seems to me as if your trying to play both sides in a candid way of criticising the militant rule the police forces are gradually applying to the UK , there will be no arms in the UK without a licence within the next ten years , the police are obstructing licence applications , why is it too hat car drivers do not have to go through the same level of scrutiny as anyone applying for a SGC FAC ,when the vehicle driven by a 17 year-old to 70 year-old can be even more lethal to than a shotgun, a rim fire or FAC air rifle or come to that a sub12, sub 6 air weapon? This country is heading to be gunless forced upon us by a militant rule police force who each individual county have their own non existent laws that they apply . The police forces are commissioned by our sovereign king to make this country safe , they could start by getting rid of the serving corrupt police officers who abuse their powers invested in them. Never trust a copper serving or retired .

What I would like to know, is why such emphasis is placed on a signed letter by your GP ? The time before I last renewed my shotgun cert'. I was asked if I would agree for my GP's surgery to pass on any information that would be deemed detrimental to me continuing to hold a certificate. I agreed, as it made sense. When my last renewal came around, I now had to supply a signed letter from my GP at my own cost. I couldn't and still cannot see the significance of this 'letter' having any bearing on me being a fit person to hold a firearm. The certificate lasts for 5 years, yet the letter is only valid for the day it was signed. It cannot guarantee that I won't be a suitable certificate holder for the following 5 years. Yes, by all means pass on any detrimental information that may come to light whilst holding a certificate, but let's drop the pretence that this costly and time wasting GP's letter has any relevance or importance - it isn't worth the paper it is written on.

The 'problem' has been created by bureaucracy. I was a Police officer in the 1980's and Shotgun/Firearms applications/renewals were handed out each month to uniformed patrol officers. You would complete all enquires within 2 weeks and this was between dealing with all your other duties. You would do simple checks, such as the Police national computer, plus any Intelligence checks to see if the applicant had ever been arrested/convicted/stop-checked etc. Home visits were carried out and security storage would be checked. It all changed after 'Hungerford' when the enquiry recommended 'specialists' to complete the applications. At the end of the day, they couldn't do any further checks than the original officers.

I have to say Essex Police were excellent,from the day I applied to my licence dropping through the door was 8 weeks to the day,no complaints here

2:52 "can these figures be turned around?" Well, West Mercia seem to be doing their best to turn them in the opposite direction! My first renewal took longer than my grant, and my last 1-for-1 variation took longer than my renewal!

Over 10 months, my local force regularly takes 2+ YEARS to issue grants! i can personaly provide 2 seperate examples of such

Cumbria currently 12 months for a renewal

Your maths is out. 20,000 divided by 5 (number of years a certificate runs) is 4,000. Say 260 working days a year makes it 16 a day. Note the average is less than 12,000 per force across England & Wales, so that would be down to less than ten a day. Cumbria is utterly useless, with renewals at 19 months & getting worse.

I come under West Yorkshire police. My renewal was turned round in 3 weeks. They have always been great to deal with and very helpful. No complaints what so ever.

A good informative video but as a 'National liaison' officer couod you not start liasing between Essex and some of those poor performing forces, drilling into why the Essex model isn't being replicated elsewhere ( for those forces that are not in a state of 'special ' reasons' o:) I think your Org would gain a lot of creditablity if you took the lead on this

Currently 8 months from when my renewal went in to Bedfordshire, still no sign of my renewal. I’ve had a section 7 issued because all the local RFD’s are full and can’t fit any more guns in!

Essex police report in Jan 2024 says 30 days ...what they put in a report is probably not checked so why does the website say more as you apply plus I get this response when I email them after 8 weeks someone is lying :- Thank you for your message, your file is with the Field Enquiry Officer who will be in contact in due course to organise a visit. Please be advised that new application can take up to 18 weeks to complete. and I have not seen anyone yet at 10 weeks.... I bet if questioned you get the answer .. its 2 weeks from approval to turning up on your doorstep

Why was there no mention of Cumbria firearms licencing?? Cumbria are currently taking around 18 months to process our renewals!! They are also point blank not issuing temporary certificates to us!! 18 months of being unable to go and buy ammunition or components for making ammunition, unable to go to our local clay grounds shooting clays as we are unable to show a valid certificate or temporary certificate!! How can this be classed as a service that we have paid for????

Excellent advice. My Dr’s surgery couldn’t tell me how long or how much to process the medical form. They eventually managed to complete the form (no issues) at nearly the 5 week point and charged £100. A shooter at a nearby clay club said his Dr charged the same price with a 5 day turnaround. Get the form ready months early and if your Dr can’t tell you how long and price go to an independent who give cost and timelines on line.

Dont tar us all with the same brush. We are not all alike.

Metalic lead is perfect for hunting, lead contamination from old primers not so good!

You should see what the gamekeepers get up to in northern England, everything except red grouse get shot at and blackhead gulls have there eggs sent to London. Just drive round and see for yourself.

We humans have our place in the circle of life and the hierarchy of wildlife as a predator species. Rules that restrict us from being too greedy or reckless are fine, but saying we should be completely non-interventionist is foolish. We have a part to play and a responsibility to keep nature in balance.

People will put steel in guns that cant handle it though and people will get hurt for no valid reason

somwhere i think sombody is once again making a lot of money out of this.

Would a new DT-11 with the tapered barrels be approved for steel?

Hey Jonny, great summary. Any insights as to when we might start to see Turgsten ammo from the main stream cartridge manufacturers?

I had a fixed choke mk 60 sporter I sent it to teague and naw it's multichoke and steel proofed changed the gun completely more usable for different cartridges d the flurdeles stamps on it

Banning lead is a bad idea. Steel & Other ammo is just asking for ricochet & more injuries.

Good work, some manufacturers are loading 4s in Hp and 3s in standard performance 👍🏼

Can I use a 67mm cartridge in a 65mm chamber ? It's all a bit confusing and would like some clarification. Thanks in advance.

why no mention of bioammo blue? I have used his through my two 1920's Greener side by sides. No bad effects and have killed birds cleanly at the top of trees. No effect on my guns

STEEL IS CRAP , full stop