She's back!!

[Stevie]

You might remember that my Gos went west in June this year. After lots of advertising, and many hours out looking for her, I always seemed to be one step behind.

I was due to fly to the states in the early hours of 6th Oct. Late evening of the 5th I received a call from DEFRA to say that someone had my bird.
Hooray we cried - too soon - some local game keepers had caught her in a pheasant pen (after she had eaten 40 of them- so they say) were now holding her to 'ransom'.

They asked to meet us at a local coutry park later that evening.
As you have properly already guessed they now wanting paying for the 40 (eaten) birds! at £20.00 a head. With a pocket full of US dollars and travellers cheques we knew this was going to be a long night.

After lots of 'heated' discussion we paid up £300.00 ( which we had decided to give as a reward anyway)

Had a great time in the states, came back to a very FIT Gos who has enjoyed the summer wild. Couldn't get much better than that.

So if you have lost a bird, take note and don't give up!

If this seems a bit girlie my wife is the typist! I asked her to give the story some balls!!!

Steve

[HunterPaul]

You might remember that my Gos went west in June this year. After lots of advertising, and many hours out looking for her, I always seemed to be one step behind.

I was due to fly to the states in the early hours of 6th Oct. Late evening of the 5th I received a call from DEFRA to say that someone had my bird.
Hooray we cried - too soon - some local game keepers had caught her in a pheasant pen (after she had eaten 40 of them- so they say) were now holding her to 'ransom'.

They asked to meet us at a local coutry park later that evening.
As you have properly already guessed they now wanting paying for the 40 (eaten) birds! at £20.00 a head. With a pocket full of US dollars and travellers cheques we knew this was going to be a long night.

After lots of 'heated' discussion we paid up £300.00 ( which we had decided to give as a reward anyway)

Had a great time in the states, came back to a very FIT Gos who has enjoyed the summer wild. Couldn't get much better than that.

So if you have lost a bird, take note and don't give up!

If this seems a bit girlie my wife is the typist! I asked her to give the story some balls!!!

Steve
brilliant mate ..and well done mrs stevie for the story ...it left me with a smile on my face .... chuffing gamekeepers though....great tale...

[Blaze]

Nice one.........N they all lived happily ever after!....

[Stephen]

glad to hear you getting your bird back longest mine was away was 5 weeks

[Talon]

are you shure he was a gamekeeper and not a highway robber.£20 ahead for pheasant. did he say they laid golden eggs.
any glad you got your bird back.tell us were is shoot is we will all go poach it.
..and before any one starts im only jokeking .or am i ?

[Finnish]

Im glad you got your bird back mate. I lent a HH to some one once and they lost that it was out for 9 week's.

[GiantsEye]

Fantastic news Stevie.

It's a lovely feeling when you get your bird back.

[Kiwanja]

Great mate ,good to hear a happy ending(except for the cash!)

[Darren]

are you shure he was a gamekeeper and not a highway robber.£20 ahead for pheasant. did he say they laid golden eggs.
any glad you got your bird back.tell us were is shoot is we will all go poach it.
..and before any one starts im only jokeking .or am i ?


Thats the going rate round my way for the shoots they charge them between £20 & £25 per bird they shoot up here.

[Hawkmaster]

Our local shoot charges £27.50 + VAT per pheasant!

[Wightwings]

glad you got the bird back mate...........so much for country folk sticking togethor tho hey.......:cry:

[Moses]

Our local shoot charges £27.50 + VAT per pheasant!

true hawk is right i wanted a live one and it was gonna cost about 30 quid coz thats the money they make to let people shoot them but once their dad she told me their only worth 2 quid and they sell it on, she said she has no live ones coz their all released but u can take the shot ones in the weekend for 2 quid each which i couldnt anyway coz i need to slaughter it


sad thing is we dont know if they were feeding your gos shot ones they shouldnt have charged that price at all mate unless they had to kill live ones specially for it

and so happy for u steve, im glad u got her back bud :)

[Wightwings]

i think the infurrance was the bird had actually killed 40 birds over the months;)

[Moses]

i think the infurrance was the bird had actually killed 40 birds over the months;)


40 birds and 300 quid is actually good then :D well done the bird

[Tanith]

Nice to hear good news for a change.

I am smiling

[Stevie]

Just to clarify the situation. The game keepers had only caught her in their pen the previous day, and were saying she had killed the 40 birds in that one day. I asked for the carcuses and said I was willing to pay for them. They told me that they were so angry that they destroyed them all!!

In our 'discussion' I did mention that should the field sports not stick together? but money seemed to to be the main agenda

Thanks for all the comments

Steve

[Moses]

Just to clarify the situation. The game keepers had only caught her in their pen the previous day, and were saying she had killed the 40 birds in that one day. I asked for the carcuses and said I was willing to pay for them. They told me that they were so angry that they destroyed them all!!

In our 'discussion' I did mention that should the field sports not stick together? but money seemed to to be the main agenda

Thanks for all the comments

Steve


u get some people like that bud, sad really, no worries bud u r gonna have some awesome fun hunting again

[Bones]

ive got a friend who's got a lovely seed mix that pheasant cant resist mate they come a flying from miles away for it hows about you lay a nice bed of it down so you can get the 40 SO CALLED PHEASANTS you paid for back and view the flight with the goss yourself
Oh and by the way i would love to see your goss fly if it takes 40 head of pheasant in a trip out lol (now all you goss flyers no need to get big headed cause they can take 40 head of game in a DAY)
PAUL
PS only havin a laugh lol

[Bones]

Thats the going rate round my way for the shoots they charge them between £20 & £25 per bird they shoot up here.
Thats too cover the cost of the ones that are poached up your neck off the woods
PAUL
ps hows that MHH doing?

[Kevin Massey]

well im glad u got her back bud...but whats happened to the "sticking by each other"?

u know what ...game shooters are beginning to get up my nose almost as much as the hounds men..... only wanna be pally wally when it suites them....( not all of them i grant you )...

but still good result in the end

kev

[Kevin Massey]

glad you got the bird back mate...........so much for country folk sticking togethor tho hey.......:cry:



pmsl chris......... i didnt reply to what was on page 2

soz

kev