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  • 26-05-2017 10:33pm
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    Tommyaya4
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭


    Seems a lot of sections granted this year and numbers to be culled seemed to have increased


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    daithi55
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭daithi55


    how do you no this where is the information obtained


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    Tommyaya4
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭Tommyaya4


    daithi55 wrote: »
    how do you no this where is the information obtained

    Just local we all have ours back no problems and all have had increases in the numbers we can shoot it may not be country wide may be just local to us


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    cookimonster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭cookimonster


    I think locality is a big thing and may I dare the ranger/s involved and the degree of determination of the landowner to get it passed.

    We've a large cull number on a relatively small area but it's smack bang in the middle of a high density location for deer. There's no problem obtaining the sections and renewing them as they expire. I've even seen sections for hinds in the beginning of the deer season to accommodate the cull.

    But move more northerly to where the big red lads frequent, now that's another story. A struggle to get the section, ridiculous cull figure ie shoot one, scare the rest, by the way that was for 3 1/2 months and absolutely no lamp even though the animals where nocturnal. Definitely felt that the power to be didn't hold with hunting.

    Same issue the following year and then no response after that. Landowner didn't push it, contrary to the other lads I shoot for, who hammered at the door so to speak and got what they wanted.

    There's a lot of talk about the TB again but I've heard that forestry groups are coming under pressure from the farmers for not doing their part in keeping numbers down. So there may be a bit of interdepartment collusion reference deer culling.:confused:


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