- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
What calibre for a Lynx...? .223/.243?
I wouldn't rule out any calibre....
When rewilding goes wrong , (graphic image)
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I wouldn't rule out any calibre....
I have agood farming friend in Finland. They also have Lynx there and he thinks we are totally mad to reintroduce them. But that people who really know not some naturalist living in a town with a bright idea that knows nothing.
- Location
- West Wales
Google “borth lynx escape”And the moon is made of cheese...
Seem to recall a Lynx being thought responsible for sheep killing in mid Wales a year or 3 back?
seems to suggest they are not just big pussycats!
(PDF) Lynx Depredation on Domestic Sheep in Norway
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We had a puma or something similar here back in 2003-2006, big texel ewes dragged and stuck on barbed wire fences 6-7’ from the ground. Dogs wouldn’t go through half acre patches of gorse which they’d go through every day plus loads of sitings. We phoned the police one day to explain the situation and they sent out the armed response unit and had 2 chaps walk the whole farm with MP5’s. They wernt surprised by the phone call and said they knew there were a few in west wales but they could travel serious mileage.
a .22HV is quite efficient at 70yds I imagine...
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Paul O'Donogue? Asin (plenty of speculation) Fallowfield on here?
I've not been at any meetings. But everything I've learned of him and his wife... I'd rather shite in my hands and clap, than trust a single word they say.
The Lynx Trust UK is very shady indeed once you start digging into it
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
He may be very intelligent but delusional to the highest degree of cuckoo land!!
beardface
Member
- Location
- East Yorkshire
Seems strange that there only killing the sheep and not eating them. I was under the impression wolf packs tend to hunt kill and eat when hungry. Maybe the experiment has gone wrong and produced more rogue individuals rather than solid packs? A bit like a rogue dog fox that massacres anything it gets near.
Not
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
I tried to share some wolf attack videos from Facebook but I can’t get it to transfer over to here.
Really? Lots of better rounds I agree, but needs must...
I have dropped foxes at 70+yds. I leave it to an expert now mind, with night sights and more range/stopping power.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
ive had posts like that on my facebook page all summer , not unusual to loose half dozen a night , a lot just look like dog attacks , not much if anything eaten , i suppose a mother training cubs could cause a lot of damage
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
They'll drop a fox at that range so I can't see why, with a well placed bullet, they wouldn't take a Lynx
Whether you should, or should not be attempting to kill such large animals with a .22 rather than a larger calibre is another topic.
But dead is dead, and the .22 is capable of that... In a hypothetical situation
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
just had a message from someone at a meeting with environmentalists , they think there are approx 580 wolves living wild in france
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ollie989898
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So any livestock killed by lynx or wolves you can dump outside the council's offices. Seems fair enough.
ollie989898
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Cool, can I work the fudging great big lamp?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
View attachment 906260270, for you & your mate! job sorted
That's cute. Here's mine, for when the sh!t gets real
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
your all missing the point , your not allowed to shoot anything , punitive fines and weight of law against you .
the multiple killings are all over from what I see on FB
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Not true. Lynx Trust are applying for specific licences to trial release Lynx in specific areas...
Outside of those specified areas, Lynx is still on the Dangerous Animals List
Hence why when that one escaped in Wales - was it 2 years ago? - they tried to capture it... once it was obvious that wasn't possible and it was followed heading for populated area, the police and army didn't f**k about and it was shot dead on site