One of the most relaxing and informative things i have ever watched, the poacher is as important as the animals and the countryside itself. The old one for the pot poacher. Just holds a romantic long held memory for some of us.
@CountBeetle3 ай бұрын
Is there any more good books or film on this matter?
@southerneruk2 жыл бұрын
Rule of the poacher is only take what you need to feed your self or to sell or swap, never be wasteful and never kill what can not be used
@teddy1066Ай бұрын
I come from a Romanichal gypsy line that goes back to 18th century Suffolk. My grandfather was a poacher from long old line of poachers, harkin round Hopton and Blo’ Norton way. He’d take one good jook that rarely barked, set out cross the poove into the wesh, and set his snares. Ghillies and gavvers never got bracelets on him, tho they were plenty tight on ye back them days. He’d take mandi along usually to scrump pobbles and ankas and such (picked out by divvus) for supper and pudding! Cushti times them.
@767frozen2 жыл бұрын
Your words and sentiments are so true. Thankyou for this atmospheric documentary.
@Eggyfart83 Жыл бұрын
Grew up poaching lochs and rivers all round SW Scotland, some of the best nights of my youth was a lamp connected to a car battery in a rucksack and away up the local burns catching salmon with a gaff or net. Salmon were plentiful back in the 90s though i haven't done it for 20 odd years now. Catch them with a rod and release them now
@noelfleming3567 Жыл бұрын
Great days plenty of salmon and trout not d case now glad ur catch and release but its lovely to get a good spring salmon
@problemchild5327 Жыл бұрын
Love this document! I still poach today and I’m young. my pass family was poachers around ww1 time also decades before that! I work really hard & still struggle to live today. I love the tradition side of it. But also get a treat for myself and animals..
@crawwwfishh3284 Жыл бұрын
One man wants to own it. Another man wants to eat it. It was put here to eat.
@rnp4972 жыл бұрын
Something for the pot is a tradition in the countryside. And to be clear they are not taking game for profit they are eating what they kill.
@shaunpreston32122 жыл бұрын
Been a keeper and a poacher it's the luv off the English country that make it a very special place and I still eat like a lord!
@petergates85702 жыл бұрын
Poaching comes from within your either got it in your blood or you haven't..this fella knows the score..I once got caught at 12.and got done for pursuit of Coney on a Sunday under the 1865 act .back in 1980..three old bill. To arrest a 12year old.only made me worse..
@bwghall1 Жыл бұрын
well told. nowadays they will send up a helicopter at a cost of thousands of £. to catch a boy down hear in Dorset. and also Drones...
@noelfleming3567 Жыл бұрын
Know d feeling but poaching is a great buzz mu knees are crippled now from wet and cold but it was worth it
@petergates8570 Жыл бұрын
@@bwghall1 I know mate.ive even had armed response unit called out on me.. good hunting 👍
@petergates8570 Жыл бұрын
@@noelfleming3567 fair play to you sir.. definitely worth it..think we probably seen the best of it..the countrysides a different place now .. hardly see a rabbit now..good luck.👍
@354sd4 жыл бұрын
As a boy my grandad took me out at night with the gun and told me to look for tennis rackets in the big hawthorn hedges which he shot and i clmbed up and got them down.Loved it.
@izaakfrost41863 жыл бұрын
What do you mean ‘tennis rackets’
@johnburns748 Жыл бұрын
@@izaakfrost4186 🙃
@petergates8570 Жыл бұрын
@@izaakfrost4186 think..he's meaning the shape of pheasant
@jacobnighthorse78935 жыл бұрын
True words from a gentleman
@lejimbobb0b4224 жыл бұрын
I read the last of the English poachers when I was in jail, great book
@lejimbobb0b4224 жыл бұрын
@jeflynnenut cheers pal
@lejimbobb0b4224 жыл бұрын
@Tiernan Stanley-Wearen no I don't , just enjoy the romantic aspects
@lejimbobb0b4224 жыл бұрын
@Tiernan Stanley-Wearen 9 months in Hmp humber mate
@CountBeetle3 ай бұрын
Who's the author
@tiernanwearen80963 жыл бұрын
"no matter how much you feed him he will keep looking at the forest" Old Russian proverb
@manofkentcatapultsgunsando50693 жыл бұрын
A catapult was my poaching choice as a boy,,,,,,,,,
@noelfleming3567 Жыл бұрын
Started me shot all my life loved it especially d clays
@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069 Жыл бұрын
@@noelfleming3567 💥💥👍🍻
@greenjack1959l5 жыл бұрын
Been looking for this for ages. Good shout.
@davidking4424 жыл бұрын
Great film thanks.
@thornwarbler5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant film thanks for putting it up
@tiernanwearen80963 жыл бұрын
"no matter how much you feed him he will keep looking at the forest" old Russian proverb
@tinkhefferon99344 жыл бұрын
Great to watch it was worth it back then, today they dig holes and Bury them must cost around 30 pounds to put a bird over a gun today I remember when they used a lofting pole with a snare on and a torch didn't need a gun how things have changed
@shaunjones6049 Жыл бұрын
I’ve hopped a few hedges in the past 😉 But poaching now? Don’t bother, go to the local shoots get paid £30/ £40 for a days beating more often than not you will get dinner thrown in as well 👍 and walk away at the end of the day with free pheasants as well. Game keepers are high tech now they have camera traps, night vision, thermal imaging equipment just not worth it. Local shoot caught two guys with lurchers, the keeper was watching them with night vision and filming them 😳 the cops turned up, confiscated their car, they spent most of the night in the police station and when they were released had to pay for the train to get home , convicted and fined as it was a open and shut case (every thing on film).
@noelfleming3567 Жыл бұрын
Ya it's a dangerous task nowadays
@bronoun8884 Жыл бұрын
I met some poachers a time this song the only words The rest of the evening they spoke in bird song .
@noelfleming3567 Жыл бұрын
True everyone had their own signals
@leecoomber38774 жыл бұрын
I have watched this loads of times and couldn't agree more with the poacher ,I have some permission but also have a root were I shouldn't but never go near the bird pens they get law . The ones who kill for killing sake I cant abide ,,why kill it an throw it under the hedge,,,eat it ,you can't beat game on your plate I prefer it to asda Tesco even your local butcher ,by dog or by gun it tastes that bit better an your not gonna get more natural than what you catch out in the fields.
@leecoomber38774 жыл бұрын
@tiernan wearem late 70s early 80s.
@leecoomber38774 жыл бұрын
@tiernan wearem by the way it does still exist .😜
@tiernanwearen94994 жыл бұрын
@@leecoomber3877 this was before the twitter outrage mobs and pc gone mad. And a lot of the stupid laws ie the hunting ban the pistol ban. EU regulations and before poaching turned into a enterprise for crinimals from the towns and cities. Not many locals and I have had a lot of poachers in my family
@leecoomber38774 жыл бұрын
@@tiernanwearen9499 I know can tell by its from back in the day just by watching it ,,,as for the poaching and poachers in the family , I have no idea what you are on about squire
@leecoomber38774 жыл бұрын
@tiernan wearen cant beat it ,when the sun goes down , I own the land.👍
@roderickhowlett49842 жыл бұрын
Any idea who the vocalist is in the opening song (I think the song is "Bad Squire")?
@miguelblanco2314 Жыл бұрын
In front of life, you can care it or, you can kill it. That’s make you a kind tipe of person or not. Only you, chooses!.
@southerneruk2 жыл бұрын
And the King stole the land of the people
@johnburns7482 жыл бұрын
FACTS
@southerneruk2 жыл бұрын
@@johnburns748 It is the biggest fact of them all, royals steal to help get to where they are. They are no better than the Mafia
@crawwwfishh3284 Жыл бұрын
One man wants to own it. Another wants to eat it. It was put their for man to eat.
@outoftownr3906 Жыл бұрын
Don’t get pheasant poachers no more.Last season couldn’t get 50p a brace from the game dealer for shot birds.
@noelfleming3567 Жыл бұрын
Diets have changed my children ate all game growing up now if mention pheasant or rabbit now they tell me I'm some kind of freak I don't eat takeaways
@bargainwallart653 Жыл бұрын
40 years ago we done poaching llads of fun.
@bargainwallart653 Жыл бұрын
Maxwells were cattle rustlers
@bargainwallart653 Жыл бұрын
The royal family should be ashamed
@waynesmith4612 Жыл бұрын
Yes if they knew what the word meant, After Andrew i think shames not a word they know to well.
@glenhawman7440 Жыл бұрын
My mates fatha still gans poaching hes 84! Lol
@mikeclarke45235 жыл бұрын
love it, great video sir, what's the opening song called ?
@oakashthorn57145 жыл бұрын
Mike Clarke kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hMdghtx7uMnWgaM.html there you go...
@mikeclarke45235 жыл бұрын
Greg De-bakers , thank you
@stevenjohnson51265 жыл бұрын
Mike Clarke it’s a poem by Charles Kingsley called the bad squire
@thornwarbler5 жыл бұрын
@@stevenjohnson5126 Thanks for that. What a fantastic poem
@nomad901254 жыл бұрын
Sound is bloody terrible.
@greenlover2474 жыл бұрын
a sponge and a desert is right
@miguelblanco23142 жыл бұрын
Are this documental justifies to poachers ??.. bcos criminal it’s a criminal. No doubts.
@johnburns7482 жыл бұрын
You ran out of pants to sniff🤣
@tiernanwearen80962 жыл бұрын
@@johnburns748 is that referring to the line from snatch?
@tiernanwearen80962 жыл бұрын
@@johnburns748 aye and stay away from the gavvers and the kani when you're running them
@tiernanwearen80962 жыл бұрын
@@johnburns748 aye jukels can be devil's with kani. Do you keep any kani?