Hunting as a tourism product

bpb101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgLeFhP7J2c

Interesting statement made in the dail last week. Was first flagged to me by somebody who called on Lucinda Creighton to resign or something as to save an animals or some shíte like that. But what do people think of that?

Allowing tourists to hunt.I presume this would mean without a licensee.
Personally i have no interest in hunting but from an economic point of view, bring a few yanks down to wicklow , wine and dine them and bring them out deer stalking, Maybe some pheasant shooting.Hunters with some land could clean up.

Scots are bringing in a few bob
http://www.monarchsport.com/prices/index.html

People thoughts?


Edit:Shes getting a lot of stick for the idea, But i for one welcome it.

Sparks

Did the NARGC not oppose that idea a decade or two back?

Tommyaya4

No way what will happen is it will become a business good areas will be leased from landowner only allowing the lease holder hunt the land pushing out the local gun clubs areas will be over stocked with **** flying pheasants all so the tourist is guaranteed big bags

ace86

its here already especially in the west but not for pheasants or ducks but for woodcock and snipe. Alot of french English etc and other guys come here for shooting and the guys bringing them out will throw any amount of money at forestry or good hunting ground and even poach other fellows ground when they are not around bcos €€€ has to be made and when the season is over do nothing until it comes around nxt yr. we are so lucky in this country with shooting compared to other countrys with especially uk where its estates and its one man one rule so to speak. this is business for these guys as for gun club guys its a hobby and an interest really but €€€ is the problem. I was at Cla game fair this yr and was talking to guy from North England and he told me a days woodcock shooting in an estate near him was £1200 a gun for the day which is unreal and crazy to be honest.

meathstevie

For starters it's a practice that's already long established. It's nowhere near on a scale as for example goose hunting in Scotland would be but there's a regular trickle of hunting tourists.

There's no reason why it should or would be unlicensed as non-resident firearms licences are no harder to obtain as a normal resident one.

bpb101

meathstevie wrote: »

There's no reason why it should or would be unlicensed as non-resident firearms licences are no harder to obtain as a normal resident one.

i was implying that the tourist wouldn't have a licenses himself , but rather work under the instruction of somebody , The same way as somebody who would like to shot at a licensed rifle range(without his own firearm)

meathstevie

bpb101 wrote: »

i was implying that the tourist wouldn't have a licenses himself , but rather work under the instruction of somebody , The same way as somebody who would like to shot at a licensed rifle range(without his own firearm)

I don't believe legislation allows for that to happen. The tourist hunter will have to either licence his own and bring it with them or a licence in the tourists name will have to be obtained for a locally owned gun as far as I know.

the_syco

Can't see any insurance company touching this, and could see a company having insurance to be mandatory.

ALANC81

It's already here lads and there's more in Wicklow and Galway. Its some price to come over and shoot a deer to.

http://www.jmmhunting.com/sika-deer-hunting.php

meathstevie

the_syco wrote: »

Can't see any insurance company touching this, and could see a company having insurance to be mandatory.

Why not ? My father's hunting insurance in Belgium for example costs a few euro more than for example NARGC compensation fund membership and covers him for third party liability for all legal hunting activities all over the EU. If I remember correctly the NARGC fund does that as well.

The person/company catering for hunting tourism will have to have some sort of operators liability cover but I don't think that's too hard to source if you go looking for by example a specialised UK based broker where there's any amount of commercially ran shooting estates.

the_syco

meathstevie wrote: »

Why not ?

Actually, scratch what I said. If they follow the same guidelines that paintball fields follow, I'd say that they'd be allowed, as for the purposes of insurance, paintball markers are firearms (anything over a joule is a firearm, and the markers shoot at 15 joules).

Thus; far away from the nearest road.