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    what is the Law with regards to shooting pheasant with an air rifle?

    I have been having a discussion with a few mates,and we just dont know the answer,i know the BASC "guidlines",but i cant find the actual "word of law" anywhere.? thanks

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    You can do it legally if you have permission but it's considered bad form.

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    vermin species

    Is pheasant on the vermin list?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ratinator View Post
    Is pheasant on the vermin list?
    In a word no, they're classed as Game, and have closed seasons and cannot be shot on Sundays' BASC extract below:

    Sunday and Christmas Day Shooting

    England and Wales

    No game may be killed or taken in any county on Sunday or Christmas Day. Game for the purposes of this section means pheasant, partridge, red grouse, black grouse and hare.

    Orders prohibiting the shooting of wildfowl on Sundays made under sections 2 and 13 of the Protection of Birds Act 1954 still in existence are in the following counties (or parts of counties in existence before the 1974 local authority re-organisation): Anglesey, Brecknock, Caernarvon, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Cornwall, Denbigh, Devon, Doncaster, Glamorgan, Great Yarmouth County Borough, Isle of Ely, Leeds County Borough, Merioneth, Norfolk, Pembroke, Somerset, North and West Ridings of Yorkshire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SandyB View Post
    In a word no, they're classed as Game, and have closed seasons and cannot be shot on Sundays' BASC extract below:

    Sunday and Christmas Day Shooting

    England and Wales

    No game may be killed or taken in any county on Sunday or Christmas Day. Game for the purposes of this section means pheasant, partridge, red grouse, black grouse and hare.

    Orders prohibiting the shooting of wildfowl on Sundays made under sections 2 and 13 of the Protection of Birds Act 1954 still in existence are in the following counties (or parts of counties in existence before the 1974 local authority re-organisation): Anglesey, Brecknock, Caernarvon, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Cornwall, Denbigh, Devon, Doncaster, Glamorgan, Great Yarmouth County Borough, Isle of Ely, Leeds County Borough, Merioneth, Norfolk, Pembroke, Somerset, North and West Ridings of Yorkshire.
    On the first of September,
    One Sunday morn,
    I shot a hen pheasant
    in standing corn
    without a licence!
    Imagine if you can
    such a trio of crimes
    against God and man.


    Probably traditional (and definitely not a confession)

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    no its not good form to shoot the peasants

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    My Grandad, God rest his soul was forever borrowing my air rifle to shoot pheasant, woodpigeon and the like...I don`t see the harm in shooting pheasant if you indeed plan to place it on a dinner plate with a few roast potatoes, carrots, peas and gravy and eat it!!!...

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    Quote Originally Posted by walnutfarmmick View Post
    On the first of September,
    One Sunday morn,
    I shot a hen pheasant
    in standing corn
    without a licence!
    Imagine if you can
    such a trio of crimes
    against God and man.


    Probably traditional (and definitely not a confession)

    ATVB, Mick
    Well they are a little late bringing in the corn around here Mick! That could drop it down to just two crimes!

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    Are they roosting in your satellite dish? Pesky critters!

    In the early 80s there was some geezer in AGW who shot pheasants and ducks with an air-rifle but that's the only time I've heard of it.

    Nowadays the only people who shoot pheasants with an airgun are poachers, and they like to flout the law according to the film 'Withnail & I'.

    Also, you are not allowed to shoot peasants even if you own them and their cottages. Try pigeons, they are tastier than pheasants and are an acceptable airgun species.

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    I wouldn't personally take a Pheasant with a 12ftlb air rifle unless it was a certain clean headshot. They're too big so there's a real danger of wounding.
    You have to have landowners permission of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hsing-ee View Post
    Are they roosting in your satellite dish? Pesky critters!

    In the early 80s there was some geezer in AGW who shot pheasants and ducks with an air-rifle but that's the only time I've heard of it.

    Nowadays the only people who shoot pheasants with an airgun are poachers, and they like to flout the law according to the film 'Withnail & I'.

    Also, you are not allowed to shoot peasants even if you own them and their cottages. Try pigeons, they are tastier than pheasants and are an acceptable airgun species.
    Whether you've heard of it or not is irrelevant, the fact is that you can quite legally shoot any game bird with an airgun as long as it is in season and you have the right to do so. It's just the fact that shooting them in flight with a shotgun is considered more sporting and that is why it isn't generally done.

    I would shoot one for the pot with an airgun if I needed one without any concern.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hsing-ee View Post
    Are they roosting in your satellite dish? Pesky critters!

    In the early 80s there was some geezer in AGW who shot pheasants and ducks with an air-rifle but that's the only time I've heard of it.

    Nowadays the only people who shoot pheasants with an airgun are poachers, and they like to flout the law according to the film 'Withnail & I'.

    Also, you are not allowed to shoot peasants even if you own them and their cottages. Try pigeons, they are tastier than pheasants and are an acceptable airgun species.
    Bog off, I have shot plenty of pheasants with my air rifle, I have permission to on the land where I have permission to shoot. If the pheasant is on land where you have permission to shoot, you are allowed by the land owner to shoot pheasants, you can shoot pheasants with an air rifle. Simple as. I have always killed humanely via a headshot, the same way I shoot my pigeons. I do not attempt to shoot the birds in flight however as with a .22 or .177 this would be nearly impossible!

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    Quote Originally Posted by secretagentmole View Post
    Bog off, I have shot plenty of pheasants with my air rifle, I have permission to on the land where I have permission to shoot. If the pheasant is on land where you have permission to shoot, you are allowed by the land owner to shoot pheasants, you can shoot pheasants with an air rifle. Simple as. I have always killed humanely via a headshot, the same way I shoot my pigeons. I do not attempt to shoot the birds in flight however as with a .22 or .177 this would be nearly impossible!
    Why bother shooting them, half of the dozy buggers you could walk within range and brain them with a stick.

    Not considered sporting and, as an aside, it's not the impossibility that should prevent some one armed with an air rifle from taking the shot at a flying anything - it's the cruelty of it, you could not be reasonably confident of a killing shot (very much different with a scatter gun ).

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    Aye, dumb critters they are - and suicidal also. They hide in the hedge waiting for you to drive past then try to cross just as you reach them. Seems their one objective in life is to bust your headlights. Gun not needed around here.
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