Are there any hunters on sf

[L00b 441]

Hunting has no place in modern Britain. It aint necessary for population control. Take deer hunting for example, the deer population is only controlled to provide enough animals to hunt to provide the land owner with extra cash.

I would tend to agree with that, to a point. As noted in my first post, there's not much 'real' game left free to roam, out of Scotland. And even there...

 

There little to no hares, deers, boars, etc over here - unless on a tiny managed 'shooting reserve' of sorts, and to me that's not hunting: it's shooting. Skeet-with-fur. And don't get me started on what peeps over here call 'shoots'

 

Over in France, there is an abundance of the above and more (e.g. more 'exotic' quadrupeds in lower alps, like mouflons), completely free to roam (though they are, of course, territorial to a greater or lesser extent and will 'stick' to particular areas, depending on the animal). Storks, buzzards (both common as muck around 'my' neck of the woods), otters or civets, etc, etc.

 

There is -still- ample need for population management and control there. Ever more so due to the farmers' ever-more intensive farming techniques. Shooting periods and headcounts are tightly regulated - and enforced. Hunting does not stop and start at shooting - it includes population tending or 'helping' in winter time, herd tracking and health monitoring throughout the year, liaising with farmers for herd-caused crop damage, etc, etc, etc. Basically, a big responsibility, and not just walk-on-and-shoot-owt-that-moves which so many ill-informed consider it to be.

 

They're entitled to their opinions...and to enjoy chancing upon and admiring free-roaming healthy game on their long walks - which wouldn't be there for long if it weren't for them "darn hunters"

Edited August 29, 2012 by L00b

[R.A.N.D 10]

Hunting has no place in modern Britain. It aint necessary for population control. Take deer hunting for example, the deer population is only controlled to provide enough animals to hunt to provide the land owner with extra cash.

 

well you can have that on your gravestone when your dead because every thing when tits up and you had no basic survival skills plan to prapare or prepare to fail of course nothings gonna be that bad is it can it lets just say it's gonna be very interesting :help:

[Tripitaka 10]

Troll hunting is fun and can be very fulfilling. Like shooting fish in a barrell though on certain forums...

[mickw33 10]

By "hunter" do you mean a big bloke armed with a gun blasting the hell out of defenceless animals for the sheer fun of it & so he can feel good about himself and his half inch appendage?

 

 

And it's 'here' incidentally.

 

yes thats the one

[mickw33 10]

Crikey! He only asked if there were any hunters here.

How about if I asked if there were any Scuba divers on here? Would the replies be along the lines of " people diving in the sea, disturbing fish in their natural habitat, filling their air tanks using precious oxygen, boats polluting the water.

Or cyclists taking up the road, holding traffic up, not waiting at lights, cutting up traffic, jumping up on to the path when it suits them.

Fishermen harming fish by hooking them, fishing line left behind to choke swans, lead poisoning the lakes.

Motorcyclist riding too fast, like lunatics, too noisy, riding between lines of traffic.

All of these hobbies (possibly not scuba diving) have been abused in some way or another on this forum.

So lets have a list of SF approved hobbies that are not going to offend SF'rs.

I'll start the ball rolling with extreme knitting.

 

im second watching paint dry

[Eric_Collins 11]

On radio 2 on Jeremy Vyne show this afternoon 12-2pm, hippy fluffy bunny lovers want to put hunting and gun books on the top shelf with the porn and smut. They look like they are forwarding plans to the government to make it happen.

[irenewilde 10]

well you can have that on your gravestone when your dead because every thing when tits up and you had no basic survival skills plan to prapare or prepare to fail of course nothings gonna be that bad is it can it lets just say it's gonna be very interesting :help:

 

Oh my good Lord. Do you have a tin foil hat as well?

[taxman 12]

Crikey! He only asked if there were any hunters here.

How about if I asked if there were any Scuba divers on here? Would the replies be along the lines of " people diving in the sea, disturbing fish in their natural habitat, filling their air tanks using precious oxygen, boats polluting the water.

Or cyclists taking up the road, holding traffic up, not waiting at lights, cutting up traffic, jumping up on to the path when it suits them.

Fishermen harming fish by hooking them, fishing line left behind to choke swans, lead poisoning the lakes.

Motorcyclist riding too fast, like lunatics, too noisy, riding between lines of traffic.

All of these hobbies (possibly not scuba diving) have been abused in some way or another on this forum.

So lets have a list of SF approved hobbies that are not going to offend SF'rs.

I'll start the ball rolling with extreme knitting.

 

I think extreme knitting could still offend some people

[regatta 10]

I've been "house-hunting" does that count?

 

Enjoyed it! Shot 3 semi-detached and a bungalow first time out!

:hihi::hihi: love it,

[Kit! 10]

No, he probably means blokes and lasses armed with shotguns, rifles or bows ambling in the countryside from ungodly hours all day long -and maybe taking a shot at something of course- for the sheer enjoyment of it. That's beside the many non-shooting activities hunters also do as part of their hobby, btw - which are more akin to game management and 'cattle farming' (to an extent).

 

And it's 'feel good' incidentally

 

I don't hunt in the UK, the game and flora/setup is not interesting enough, and prices (of everything) are just bonkers. But I do hunt occasionally, when visiting home in France. Went out after wild boar two weeks ago, saw a couple but didn't take a shot as it wasn't clear enough. Dog was happy as anything, it was his first ever and he had a right ball, out and walking all day long.

 

What happened to the left one?

[sagey 10]

what do u mean by hunters i do i lot of vermin control eg wood pigeons rabbits Squirrels magpies doves

[sagey 10]

mickw33 i like to have my say about what u said about Fishermen harming fish by hooking them, fishing line left behind to choke swans, lead poisoning no all fisherman leave line on the bank so swans can eat the shot are hook its the little dipsticks who dont know better cos there parents are too lazy are sat at home with a few cans letting there kids do what ever there want for a easy life