The Gamekeeper. 1975 Documentary. A year with the keeper, from a bygone era.

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Жыл бұрын

They don't make them like this anymore.
A truly wonderful glimpse of a bygone era in fieldsports. A film full of characters and, a man at the top of his profession...
One year's work, 2,000 pheasants safely reared and 1,000 shot. A documentary about the annual cycle of a keeper's life on a Wessex farm joining his life while he rears the chicks, turns them into free-flying wild birds, but persuades them not to stray, protects them from their natural enemies like foxes and poachers, and finally drives them towards the guns.
The keepers: Don Ibberson began keeping in 1965, Jack Lewis began keeping in 1921; Viv Townsend began keeping in 1907. Narrator PETER FRANCE

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@paulallum6738 Жыл бұрын

I was always told put a shirt and tie on, when I asked why, was told it showed you respected the Quarry.

@meljones4129 Жыл бұрын

Take from this that so much has changed since 1975, but yet so much remains the same. I have the great pleasure and privilege to still beat for the family whose shoots were shown in this film. I didn’t know Dr Nigel, as he sadly died before I moved to this shoot, but his family still ensure the traditions stay alive. The Mr Harper featured early on (another Don) is still alive and well, and can’t be kept from the field despite his great age. A lovely man, whose family are still part of the farming and shooting community here.

@davebarber9510 11 ай бұрын

Love the way the gentry does the beating and game keeper and beaters do the last shoot rather like the officers serving Xmas dinner in the military oh and sergeants waking you up with tea and rum or really rum and little tea lovely film

@paulreilly3904 9 ай бұрын

It's wonderful to hear that these ways and traditions are still kept going. A big thank you. Long may it continue.

@tonyludlow2871 Жыл бұрын

I love these old documentaries. Jack Hargreaves and the like. Try showing this to anyone under 30 and they will find it wrong on every level. "Too long, too slow, poor little birdies,etc". I struggle to believe how the younger generations will survive.

@napalmhotdog4365 5 ай бұрын

I am 21. I live on a farm in Hertfordshire, have done all my life. I’m extraordinarily fortunate to have a family who have indulged me in putting birds down for the first time this year. I worked at the rearing field in the summer. I’ve fed them everyday from the day they were born to the day in that I am writing this comment, near the end of January. This is perhaps my favourite piece of documentary, alongside Jeremy clarksons war stories. Just know, that, despite appearances, great swathes of the young of today still appreciate this way of living, this detritus of old England. We’ll do our best to maintain it, forevermore.

@jewelcitizen2567 Жыл бұрын

*_”I always like to hear about the Old-timers, never missed a chance to do so.”_*

@skyhawk_4526 Жыл бұрын

Man, I feel old. This came out 1 just year before I was born. But it also makes me very proud of that generation.

@killintime8431 8 ай бұрын

You’re telling me I’m actually in this film 0:51 I’m the blonde guy with the stick pushing birds this sure brings back memories

@819ANT Жыл бұрын

there are a few of the old Airgun vids up from the 80s/90s always nice to see how things used to be done.

@TheScottReaproject Жыл бұрын

Definitely Anthony.

@JJ-om8vf Жыл бұрын

@@TheScottReaproject hi scott, do you have any advice for someone looking to get into butchery, I was planning to just ring round and offer a month of free work. Thanks J

@TonyTony-zd6is Жыл бұрын

Nice one Scott really enjoyed this, £6 to put a pheasant out in 1975 just put this through the Bank of England inflation calculator £42.50 in today's money makes me feel ancient.

@jamesellsworth9673 11 ай бұрын

As a lad, I raised pheasants for species conservation. I slept with the new chicks, using heat lamps and thermometers to keep them properly warm. I enjoyed seeing them grow as we moved them on to natural grassland feeds within protected enclosures. Later in life, I enjoyed commercially raised pheasants from producers such as I was, for a special meal.

@travisnichols5680 Жыл бұрын

Awesome documentary Scott thanks for sharing! It was very interesting learning this type of living and skill back then.

@richardlawton8986 Жыл бұрын

I’ve watched this film hundreds of times and it’s absolutely perfect. Gives an excellent account of how shooting really is.

@rowluxillusion5235 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant documentary, thanks for posting this Scott.

@tazzie2shoos Жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Thank you 🙂

@marktonylindo4627 Жыл бұрын

fantastic thanks mate

@C...G... Жыл бұрын

cheers for uploading this scott 👍

@zworm2 Жыл бұрын

Went to school in a small village that was on a huge estate. The boys knew the keeper and he would put out a call for beaters, digging out a sett or a den or most fun a ratting. We could earn a few coppers for that and also the rabbit ears when we went ferreting. Keeper hated any kind of raptor and moles. Injected an earth worm with arsenic and dropped it down the mole runs. He relished 'pigs' hedgehogs, to eat. Consider myself very lucky to have experienced that life. Some parts still linger.

@gedion4000 Жыл бұрын

Oh this is lovely. I'll have to watch it when I get out of work!

@Baron-Ortega Жыл бұрын

Look how lovely our country used to be :(

@RyanMclain Жыл бұрын

Wow so much better than it has any right to be. So much enjoyed. Thanks

@tomhill4044 Жыл бұрын

Very proper as well as classic

@leonardticsay8046 Жыл бұрын

People knew how to dress back them. How was it that such hardworking men were always so impeccably dressed?

@irampotter Жыл бұрын

People years ago would dress up especially when they knew they would be on camera, the shot of the family sitting together in their Sunday best watching television with mum just having had her hair done is a prime example, you often see something similar when documentary makers visited third world countries, the peasant farmer hard at work in the fields with the cattle wearing a suit and tie. I was a kid back then and the only time you dressed like that was Sunday for Church, if the relatives were coming round, Christmas day or if a film crew was coming to the house.

@nofyou5182 Жыл бұрын

To them, that is everyday wear. We would look like hobos in their eyes.

@Agri-WMH 10 ай бұрын

@@irampotterto this day game shooters and many gamekeepers will wear a shirt and tie as a sign of respect to the birds

@shirleydrury5565 Ай бұрын

Because they had pride!! Now they have no respect for them selves or any one else!! Sad times😢😢

@barrypinkerton5685 Ай бұрын

A sense of pride sadly lacking now

@RedZu1 Жыл бұрын

Ive just got the londales keepers book to study, great timing with this

@Chassealarc Жыл бұрын

Awesome story

@chpet1655 Жыл бұрын

What a charming life. A way of life really. I wished this were my dad lol

@thefalconrychef6660 Жыл бұрын

Lol if they fancy dropping a few pheasants off on my ground il be happy..walked 2 hours with the bird this morning and nothing! To much cover! What ever happened to getting frost in October. Excellent video pal

@minuteman4199 Жыл бұрын

This is true organic farming.

@johnbaldwin143 Жыл бұрын

How have we lost the importance of this practice? It seems now to be the arena of the rich? £75 a bird and double if it is white? These were neccessay skills once (and given the current situation are even more so?) Thanks Scott for posting this!

@ghengiscrayon Жыл бұрын

I remember this from years ago. Didn’t you share this once, like in 2017?

@Weasel_1.1 9 ай бұрын

Remember a keeper shooting my freinds cat....who was a big animal haulier/ leader of straw and hay ect in Weardale .....you could hear the keepers screams in the next valley.....the cat was in my freinds garden at the time....never ever trust a gamekeeper.....they kill and poison anything and everything that's not a game bird.....this coming from a landowner and a farmer myself.

@captainbackflash Жыл бұрын

...waiting for Jack Carlton to pop up!

@davevalentine7442 Жыл бұрын

I wish days were the same as then

@ianself2907 10 ай бұрын

Ecxelent this, do you like an old hero of mine Jack Hargreaves?

@daddylongbear7803 Жыл бұрын

Met a guy here in Iowa at a squirrel tournament that runs dogs for birds can’t wait to hunt with him this year. *edit* nothing runs like a Deer!

@cliveharris1498 9 ай бұрын

I bet there almost all dead and gone now after nearly 50 years on.

@bwghall1 Ай бұрын

I am still here Briddy Game keeper and other past ways of life, now 85 got to keep going.

@KENZIEthewildgooseman 10 ай бұрын

All this experience but sadly Gun safety none existent..not just towards other Guns but Dogs too…the so called Dr Nigel should no better…otherwise nice film 🙂 thank you for uploading 👍🏻

@vonsprague7913 9 ай бұрын

I started on the shoots in 1978, the men who shot had been handling guns all their lives and safety was commonsense and experience using trigger control. We did have one man who shot himself when he stood his shotgun up on a style climbed over and called his dog over and the dog caught the triggers and blew his head off but that was a rare incident.

@studio12archive60 7 ай бұрын

I agree, great vid but closed guns is a big no no. Why do they do it? The mind boggles.. I would give these people a wide berth

@castrolgtx5064 Жыл бұрын

This video has been on KZfaq for years

@brianeaton3734 Жыл бұрын

Maybe, but I never would have seen it if Scott hadn’t posted it. Turn your life around. Be positive.

@castrolgtx5064 Жыл бұрын

@@brianeaton3734 There’s tons of videos on fieldsports on KZfaq Jack’s Game is another great series from 1983..

@professionalidiots101 Жыл бұрын

Video is too long for my tiny mind 👍🏻

@LandersWorkshop Жыл бұрын

Just skip through it if it drags a bit.

@georgefoster6868 10 ай бұрын

Gamekeepers = the ultimate bootlickers.

@bwghall1 Ай бұрын

there`s game keepers and Gamekeepers. I came from shooting for the pot folk. I did not touch the the cap to no one..

@jfi368 5 ай бұрын

Cruel cold hearted people 😮😮

@Georgefox-qh5ul 2 ай бұрын

you havent got a clue

@bwghall1 Ай бұрын

They will even pull baby carrots up and eat them. so cruel.

@jfi368 Ай бұрын

@@bwghall1 Oh dear.. equating someone killing animals for fun to eating vegetables shows how really sick you are !!

@jgalt155 Жыл бұрын

Damn the raptor killers .

@mrmoran0077 10 ай бұрын

There's always one eh, thankfully a lot has changed since then especially as they are constantly under scrutiny nowadays what with the likes of packham, tingay et al throwing accusations around right left and centre