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The Gamekeeper. 1975 Documentary. A year with the keeper, from a bygone era.
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2022
- 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
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.
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.
I was always told put a shirt and tie on, when I asked why, was told it showed you respected the Quarry.
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.
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
It's wonderful to hear that these ways and traditions are still kept going. A big thank you. Long may it continue.
there are a few of the old Airgun vids up from the 80s/90s always nice to see how things used to be done.
Definitely Anthony.
@@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
Man, I feel old. This came out 1 just year before I was born. But it also makes me very proud of that generation.
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
Fabulous ,
Awesome documentary Scott thanks for sharing! It was very interesting learning this type of living and skill back then.
Brilliant documentary, thanks for posting this Scott.
*_”I always like to hear about the Old-timers, never missed a chance to do so.”_*
I’ve watched this film hundreds of times and it’s absolutely perfect. Gives an excellent account of how shooting really is.
Look how lovely our country used to be :(
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.
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.
Fascinating! Thank you 🙂
cheers for uploading this scott 👍
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.
Wow so much better than it has any right to be. So much enjoyed. Thanks
Oh this is lovely. I'll have to watch it when I get out of work!
fantastic thanks mate
Very proper as well as classic
People knew how to dress back them. How was it that such hardworking men were always so impeccably dressed?
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.
To them, that is everyday wear. We would look like hobos in their eyes.
@@irampotterto this day game shooters and many gamekeepers will wear a shirt and tie as a sign of respect to the birds
Because they had pride!! Now they have no respect for them selves or any one else!! Sad times😢😢
A sense of pride sadly lacking now
What a charming life. A way of life really. I wished this were my dad lol
Ive just got the londales keepers book to study, great timing with this
Awesome story
This is true organic farming.
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
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!
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.
...waiting for Jack Carlton to pop up!
I remember this from years ago. Didn’t you share this once, like in 2017?
I wish days were the same as then
I bet there almost all dead and gone now after nearly 50 years on.
I am still here Briddy Game keeper and other past ways of life, now 85 got to keep going.
Ecxelent this, do you like an old hero of mine Jack Hargreaves?
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 👍🏻
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.
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
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!
This video has been on UA-cam for years
Maybe, but I never would have seen it if Scott hadn’t posted it.
Turn your life around. Be positive.
@@brianeaton3734
There’s tons of videos on fieldsports on UA-cam
Jack’s Game is another great series from 1983..
Gamekeepers = the ultimate bootlickers.
there`s game keepers and Gamekeepers. I came from shooting for the pot folk. I did not touch the the cap to no one..
Video is too long for my tiny mind 👍🏻
Just skip through it if it drags a bit.
Cruel cold hearted people 😮😮
you havent got a clue
They will even pull baby carrots up and eat them. so cruel.
@@bwghall1 Oh dear.. equating someone killing animals for fun to eating vegetables shows how really sick you are !!