To not want to see somebody shooting a gun from my kitchen window?

[Staffielove23]

We back onto a field and the farmer is literally going round with his gun shooting at ‘I’ve no idea what’. Is this legal to do this so close to somebody’s house? We can see him so we are in the firing line. I mean, I know he wouldn’t intentionally shoot as us but what if he gets us while aiming for something else, I know the farm was here before us, etc but I feel slightly unnerved as my children play out in the garden in the evening times with the lighter night, and there’s loads of other fields behind this one that don’t directly back onto people’s houses.

It’s a field with lambs and sheep, and they have cows too. Thanks for asking your DH about it. That’s not a bad idea.

Your definition of ‘inconvenienced or disturbed’ isn’t necessarily going to be the same as what legally constitutes inconvenienced and disturbed.

you can speak to him and request he be mindful of your children and pets, and/or pre-warns you so you can get them inside, but if he’s acting within the law you can’t prevent him from shooting on his own land, no matter how unreasonable you may think he is.

He's shooting rabbits or foxes.
You've just reminded how much I absolutely hated living in the countryside. Waking up to the sound of animals being shot for a laugh on a Sunday morning was a real low point.

they lived on the edge of a major forest, 15 mins outside a lovely small town. but it was hunting country.

Just ask around the village tomorrow if you don’t know where he lives and go to see him about his concerns, rather than reporting him to the police for acting lawfully on his own land. I’ve never read anything so entitled before.

OP would you rather have your house overrun with vermin?

is it a new build house on an estate and your house happens to back on to the farm land that remains?

So probably shooting corvids to protect lambs from having their eyes pecked. There is a code of practise on basc website for shooting fyi.

Hmm i was with the OP initially but the overall tone is a bit U. She can just go round his house and ask him to text her first next time as suggested by PP. Instead she's phoning the cops, just to amp up the aggro with a neighbour?

Entitled not to get shot at. Yeah, ok. I’m not sure about approaching him just based on some of the responses on this thread. People getting pretty angry at legitimate concerns. Best to let the police deal with it imo.

Is this your first time living near a farm? Or did you not know your garden backed onto a farm when you bought the house l?
FIL is fairly regularly out shooting to protect his livestock, I don't think any neighbouring properties have ever worried he's going to shoot them in their garden. 🤦‍♀️

What do you think the police will do?

I hope there are not loose dogs about 😐

Def contact them tho, and say it make your uncomfortable and if possible could they please send a text. I think a lot of farmers I know would.

You might see him out there sometime without his rifle. I'd be with you on that one. I would never approach a stranger who has a rifle.

Just because you can see him, it doesn’t follow that you are in line of fire. Unless he is shooting AT your house then you’re fine.

Actually the neighbours dog keeps jumping the fence and getting into the field 🤦🏻‍♀️ I phone them everything time I see it but they still haven’t raised the fence

Our house backs onto a farm. There's our garden, a wire fence, and then their fields. Occasionally we see our neighbour in his fields shooting. Generally he's after a fox which is fine by me as it helps keeps my chickens safe as well as his lambs, but sometimes it's a cull of the large number of jackdaws that live in the trees. I don't like that, because despite the noise and the mess I am rather fond of them, but I assume he has a good reason for doing it, I don't think he has time to be shooting them for fun.
There's probably a good reason why your neighbour is shooting when and where he is OP. Personally I would go round and ask - you don't have to do it whilst he is actually shooting, just call in at the house and have a conversation. That way you will hopefully get the issue resolved and stay on civil terms. Calling the police may not achieve either of those things.

Oh ffs OP you aren't being shot at. Calm down.
By all means call the police, they'll be very amused concerned I'm sure.

😂

You’re getting responses like this because you are being unreasonable. Just because you can see him from your property doesn’t mean you are in any harm - I shoot and your post reads as completely unreasonable.
https://basc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/01/rights_of_way_access_england_wales_2012.pdf

The only way your children/cats/chickens/backside will get ‘caught in the crossfire’ is if the vermin are shooting Bach. On the face of it, this seems unlikely.

Your definition of "alarm and inconvenience" won't be the same as the legal definition.

He has every right to shoot pests on his land. If you don't like it, you're living in the wrong house.

Shooting Bach? Ffs. Back. Shooting back.

is if the vermin are shooting Bach. On the face of it, this seems unlikely.

playing Bach surely but yes unlikely!

No way, I'd hate this too, what a stress. What do you think you'll do?

I’m just phoning to get some advice.

If we’re talking anecdotally I also grew up in the country (and still live reasonably rurally) and farmers with guns on THEIR OWN land is pretty normal and acceptable.