The Gamekeeper. 1975 Documentary. A year with the keeper, from a bygone era.

[@ajadrew]

Born in '58 so this my time as a young beater/farm life - Great program.

[@meljones4129]

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.

[@davebarber9510]

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

[@paulreilly3904]

It's wonderful to hear that these ways and traditions are still kept going. A big thank you. Long may it continue.

[@paulallum6738]

I was always told put a shirt and tie on, when I asked why, was told it showed you respected the Quarry.

[@raveninblack]

Nice to see this again.

[@819ANT]

there are a few of the old Airgun vids up from the 80s/90s always nice to see how things used to be done.

[@TheScottReaproject]

Definitely Anthony.

[@JJ-om8vf]

@@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

[@JohnSmith-rn8ui]

Fabulous ,

[@gedion4000]

Oh this is lovely. I'll have to watch it when I get out of work!

[@TonyTony-zd6is]

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.

[@rowluxillusion5235]

Brilliant documentary, thanks for posting this Scott.

[@tonyludlow2871]

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.

[@napalmhotdog4365]

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.

[@OliveJewel]

I appreciate that there was no music to persuade the viewers emotions.

[@adenwellsmith6908]

I've been watching some of those on YT. Slow TV and interesting to boot.

[@skyhawk_4526]

Man, I feel old. This came out 1 just year before I was born. But it also makes me very proud of that generation.

[@killintime8431]

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

[@tomhill4044]

Very proper as well as classic

[@richardlawton8986]

I’ve watched this film hundreds of times and it’s absolutely perfect. Gives an excellent account of how shooting really is.

[@travisnichols5680]

Awesome documentary Scott thanks for sharing! It was very interesting learning this type of living and skill back then.

[@RyanMclain]

Wow so much better than it has any right to be. So much enjoyed. Thanks

[@C...G...]

cheers for uploading this scott 👍

[@jewelcitizen2567]

*_”I always like to hear about the Old-timers, never missed a chance to do so.”_*

[@marktonylindo4627]

fantastic thanks mate

[@HorseMalone]

I remember this life from those times., they were the last days of keepering on Slaley Hall estate. It's now a golf course.

[@chpet1655]

What a charming life. A way of life really. I wished this were my dad lol

[@thefalconrychef6660]

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

[@zworm2]

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.

[@tazzie2shoos]

Fascinating! Thank you 🙂

[@jamesellsworth9673]

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.

[@RedZu1]

Ive just got the londales keepers book to study, great timing with this

[@Chassealarc]

Awesome story

[@Baron-Ortega]

Look how lovely our country used to be :(

[@jc-d6179]

Heart of oak.

[@minuteman4199]

This is true organic farming.

[@leonardticsay8046]

People knew how to dress back them. How was it that such hardworking men were always so impeccably dressed?

[@irampotter]

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.

[@nofyou5182]

To them, that is everyday wear. We would look like hobos in their eyes.

[@Agri-WMH]

@@irampotterto this day game shooters and many gamekeepers will wear a shirt and tie as a sign of respect to the birds

[@shirleydrury5565]

Because they had pride!! Now they have no respect for them selves or any one else!! Sad times😢😢

[@barrypinkerton5685]

A sense of pride sadly lacking now

[@johnbaldwin143]

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!

[@ghengiscrayon]

I remember this from years ago. Didn’t you share this once, like in 2017?

[@captainbackflash]

...waiting for Jack Carlton to pop up!

[@ianself2907]

Ecxelent this, do you like an old hero of mine Jack Hargreaves?

[@davevalentine7442]

I wish days were the same as then

[@Weasel_1.1]

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.

[@matthewlardner5328]

Weasel by name, weasel by nature ? !

[@Weasel_1.1]

@matthewlardner5328 funny story ....even made the papers....the keep had been grooming kids aswell to make matters worse....they say its common if there's nothing to kill, they will sex children

[@KENZIEthewildgooseman]

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 👍🏻

[@vonsprague7913]

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.

[@studio12archive60]

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

[@daddylongbear7803]

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!

[@ginojaco]

TImes gone by, more's the pity.

[@castrolgtx5064]

This video has been on KZbin for years

[@brianeaton3734]

Maybe, but I never would have seen it if Scott hadn’t posted it. Turn your life around. Be positive.

[@castrolgtx5064]

@@brianeaton3734 There’s tons of videos on fieldsports on KZbin Jack’s Game is another great series from 1983..

[@cliveharris1498]

I bet there almost all dead and gone now after nearly 50 years on.

[@bwghall1]

I am still here Briddy Game keeper and other past ways of life, now 85 got to keep going.

[@christopherhinton6456]

thats not shooting thats a massacure.

[@christopherhinton6456]

fifteen pounds for birds now.

[@professionalidiots101]

Video is too long for my tiny mind 👍🏻

[@Retro-Future-Land]

Just skip through it if it drags a bit.

[@georgefoster6868]

Gamekeepers = the ultimate bootlickers.

[@bwghall1]

there`s game keepers and Gamekeepers. I came from shooting for the pot folk. I did not touch the the cap to no one..

[@jfi368]

Cruel cold hearted people 😮😮

[@Georgefox-qh5ul]

you havent got a clue

[@bwghall1]

They will even pull baby carrots up and eat them. so cruel.

[@jfi368]

@@bwghall1 Oh dear.. equating someone killing animals for fun to eating vegetables shows how really sick you are !!

[@James-jd6in]

Your completely missed the point !

[@James-jd6in]

​@@bwghall1😂😂😂😂😂