Farmer has pop at rival ANDREW RICHARDSON with 243 rifle

Exclusive: Armed police swoop after ‘shooting’Man charged after incident

By Kelly Wilson and Alison RenniePublished: 28/10/2009SCRAMBLED:

Police were called to an alleged shooting near Foveran.More PicturesARMED police officers were called after an alleged shooting.Police said officers were scrambled after shots were fired and people were forced to take cover.It was believed a group of men from Ireland were in a shooting party on land, near Foveran, when the alleged incident broke out.Grampian Police Armed Response Unit raced to the scene of the alleged shooting near a granite work supplier’s base on the A90 Aberdeen to Ellon road, and a man was arrested.Owner of Bon Accord Granite John Forbes initially thought the police were carrying out a drugs raid.The 45-year-old said: “There was a police car with two officers and a van arrived with about eight guys dressed in khaki gear.“A short time later sniffer dogs arrived and they were sent over the hill.“The men were aged from around 40 and seemed to be okay.“The police left after around four hours.”Foveran councillor Isobel Davidson said she was shocked to see around 20 armed response officers outside Ellon Police Station.She said: “It is horrifying. Obviously something went terribly wrong.”Police confirmed they were called to the Foveran area around 10.15am on Monday and a man was arrested.Michael Sutherland, from the Ellon area, appeared from custody at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday in connection with the alleged shooting.The 37-year-old who was charged with culpable and reckless discharge of a firearm, made no plea and was released on bail.Detective Inspector Stewart Kidd said: “There was a number of officers involved in the inquiry.“A small number of which were firearm officers.”

It was Andy Richardson, and it was a .243, 10 rounds off... , the farmer had a earlier insident with a shotgun, that didnt have the desired effect so he got his rifle, i think the guy owned the land inbetween the guide and took exception to them shooting geese, they had to crawl a ditch to escape... iv always said farmers were nutters

Young shot arrive's in style

Today saw young Ben back in the hide with us the young lad was only 14 yrs old last season and did not look out of place with his father and grandad.

Let me tell you this young lad can shoot this morning saw him get off to slow start we will put this down to a early rise but boy once he got in to them he did some damage.

This young kid took not just one right and left but one after another 1st up 2 Canada geese bang bang down they went without his father even putting his gun up that confident his young lad would do the damage next up two pinks right over the decoy's the shout come from the guide go on lads up stood the young lad bang bang two pinks down another right and left what a shot this kid is.

Let me tell you there was another 4 lads on the other side of the field and this young lad and his father put there guns away at 15 geese with the other getting 11 shows te quality in the young lad.

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1ST flight of season in Aberdeenshire

Well today seen me visit Aberdeenshire for the 1st goose flight of the 2009-2010 season and what a flight the lads had.

Well the geese started to arrive around 7.30am and did not stop coming in what a slight SO many geese just fold there wing's and set up and come right in to the decoy's we had skein after skein just drop right in. The lads had some of the best goose shooting there is out there and they enjoyed every min of it until we called it a day with a good bag of geese had.

I have to say i am really thinking off moving up Aberedeenshire full time with regards to all my goose shooting client's as this is the number one place in Scotland for geese no two ways about it there was geese everywhere in the sky this morning.

I hear there is a record high in the Aberdeenshire area with regards to numbers off geese in the area at the moment.

I will be back up north in the next week or so cant wait.

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1st geese of the season

Well this morning saw us have our 1st clients out for geese for this season well it went quite well after going around my ground yesterday and looking at my wee honey pot of a place that always come up with the goods at this time of season and yes there was alot of pink's Grey's and so Canada geese so i made up my mind i would shot the Canada geese and keep hold of the pinks for later in week.

Well as you can see the lads had a cracking flight and enjoyed there 1st ever goose flight in Scotland with us.

Check back later for more up date's through the goose shooting season.

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Lee

Goose season is upon us

Hi to all my readers well at topic say's its fun time again with goose season now upon us i have my 1st clients arrive on Monday for a mix of pigeon,duck and goose shooting.

It's looking good so far with around 2k geese already on loch leven also there is good reports for montrose basin and up in aberdeenshire so it's looking OK for another great season.

I am looking forward to this coming season as always. I will be doing some video's for my new you tube channel so check it out for this coming season.

Always check back for reports on how the season is going we are busy right through the winter not to bad as reports from some fellow guides is they still have many week's to sell.

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Lee

Roe Buck stalking Fife

Well been back out staking with a couple of french clients this week. The week has went OK so far with a couple of nice buck's showing but one thing or another stopping us putting it one in the bag.

Well this morning we where able to add a nice looking six pointer to the bag and what a nice buck he is. Well the stalk was also fun with there being six doe's in the field it took us 1 hour to get in position to get the shot off.

The buck was took at around 130 yards with a 306 monster rifle it did not go far about 10 yards then went over which was nice to see after so many bucks playing hard to get this week.

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Lee

G8ESE

Well after a long hard summer on the pigeon's i thought i better treat myself when i got the chance to but the private number plate G8ESE off a goose guide up in aberdeenshire that has now sold on his business.

I thought i could not give up this chance to put this on my jeep it looks so good as well i have always been goose mad from a young age.

This just Add's to my collection of interest of wildfowling i collect W.A.G.B.I stuff also.

I am over the moon with this new plate i hope clients like it just as much as i do.

Well not long now until the geese start arriving around the 15th of this month goose fever is starting to kick in now.

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