Other field sports

[Sportsman]

I'm in the boat Jack, row on

What an amazingly short sighted and selfish attitude!

You seem very confident that you can speak for all "anglers" I am not so sure.

I think I prefer antis to your sort . More honest somehow

Edited September 14, 2007 by Sportsman

[gozzer]

This is what I am saying...dont lump angling with the shooters, or the hunting fraternity. the hunting days are numbered not so angling. Angling does not need the 'support' of the shooters

 

That's a bit presumptuous of you to speak for all anglers Rabbit. If it's just your opinion, then you should say so.

 

IMO, angling needs all the support it can get, because anglers certainly don't support each other.

 

As proven by this thread, there are many who participate in both, and I can see similarities in the pursuit of both angling and hunting.

What's the difference between a guy shooting a rabbit and a 'game' or sea angler taking one for the pot. ( I won't go into eating coarse fish, we've been there before).

Do you see these these branches of angling as somehow 'different' to coarse angling?

You seem to imply that coarse fishing is in some way superior to other forms of hunting, because some think it's wrong to eat coarse fish.

Maybe I'm a bit 'thick' but I fail to see the logic in your thinking.

 

John.

[thurso angler]

This is what I am saying...dont lump angling with the shooters, or the hunting fraternity. the hunting days are numbered not so angling. Angling does not need the 'support' of the shooters

 

 

I wouldnt be so sure Rabbit, keep voting labour and it may come around sooner than you think, ill still support angling as im sure 99% of shooters/keepers/dog handlers etc FIELD SPORT LOVERS will, even those who dont enjoy or participate in angling will, as we can unlike you see the woods for the trees and realise that we have a common enemy in a growing public apathy to anything that involves sport and animals/fish, like it or not its the way things are.

 

Either wake up or loose what you love!

 

I just hope the rest of the angling community are not so blinkered and shortsighted as you seem to be?

[Vagabond]

Thurso, Sportsman, Gozzer - you STILL don't understand that "We" have "moved on/evolved/become civilised", Go to the bottom of the class and read Rabbit's post again.

 

We (Man) turned from the hunter gatherer into farmers. Instead of having to find the food we propagated and reared food. It was the start of civilisation, it was the reason we are like we are today,for good or bad.

 

Consider what it is saying. "We" have become "civilised", which means........

 

No more nasty people chasing, killing, gutting, skinning, cooking and eating wild life.

 

Instead there are nice kind farmers rearing, killing, gutting, skinning, (and the rest of us cooking and eating) domestic animals.

 

Now consider what it has NOT said - "civilisation" continues to move on, and whilst "most people" in Rabbitland are no longer hunters, not many of them are farmers either.

 

"We" have "moved on" even from being farmers, "we" don't do all this unsavoury killing, gutting and skinning anymore. Farmers and slaughtermen do it instead. Farmers are an uncouth lot, nearly as bad as us hunters - in fact many of them go hunting, shooting and fishing in what spare time they have - just like the rest of us reprobates.

 

"Most peoples" food now comes not from the rivers, hills and woods, not from the fields and farmyard, but from a nice hygenic slab at the supermarket. "We" can eat with clean hands, and for the squeamish, with a clean conscience.

 

"We" are "moving on" still further - an increasing proportion of "most peoples" food is purchased ready cooked - no red blood in sight - and only requires un-wrapping, reheating, and eating.

 

Where are "we" moving to next?

 

To save fuel, and "save the planet" no doubt the next step is compulsory food deliveries to your doorstep (and eat what you are sent, but that's by the way)

 

A symptom of all this "evolution/moving on/civilisation" is the conviction that "we" are morally superior to anyone that sources their own food.

 

I am having venison casserole tonight, part of a fallow deer shot by one of my friends. Blackberry pie for afters - using fruits ruthlessly torn from their mother-plant in the countryside. No hope for me then.

Edited September 14, 2007 by Vagabond

[thurso angler]

Thurso, Sportsman, Gozzer - you STILL don't understand that "We" have "moved on/evolved/become civilised", Go to the bottom of the class and read Rabbit's post again.

Consider what it is saying. We have become "civilised", which means........

 

No more nasty people chasing, killing, gutting, skinning, cooking and eating our wild life.

 

Instead we have nice kind farmers rearing, killing, gutting, skinning, (and the rest of us cooking and eating) domestic animals.

 

Now consider what it has NOT said - civilisation continues to move on, and whilst "most people" in Rabbitland are no longer hunters, not many of them are farmers either.

 

"We" have "moved on" even from being farmers, "we" don't do all this unsavoury killing, gutting and skinning anymore. Farmers and slaughtermen do it for us. Farmers are an uncouth lot, nearly as bad as us hunters - in fact many of them go hunting, shooting and fishing in what spare time they have - just like the rest of us reprobates.

 

"Most peoples" food now comes not from the rivers, hills and woods, not from the fields and farmyard, but from a nice hygenic slab at the supermarket. We can eat with clean hands, and for the squeamish, with a clean conscience.

 

We are "moving on" still further - an increasing proportion of "most peoples" food is purchased ready cooked - no red blood in sight - and only requires un-wrapping, reheating, and eating.

 

Where are "we" moving to next?

 

To save fuel, and "save the planet" no doubt the next step is food delivered to your doorstep (and eat what you are sent, but that's by the way)

 

A symptom of all this "evolution/moving on/civilisation" is the conviction that "we" are morally superior to anyone that sources their own food.

 

I am having venison casserole tonight, part of a fallow deer shot by one of my friends. Blackberry pie for afters - using fruits ruthlessly torn from their mother-plant in the countryside. No hope for me then.

 

 

No hope for you Vagabond, but can i come round to yours for tea? sounds yummy!!!

[Sportsman]

No hope for you Vagabond, but can i come round to yours for tea? sounds yummy!!!

I would love to come round for tea as well, but I am off to slaughter something, otherwise my family will starve. My wife is fed up of eating grass, and has threatened to throw me out of the cave.

[chesters1]

grass you were lucky !we used to eat poop

[spasor]

I am having venison casserole tonight, part of a fallow deer shot by one of my friends. Blackberry pie for afters - using fruits ruthlessly torn from their mother-plant in the countryside. No hope for me then.

 

The last rabbit you gave me Dave was delicious

Hope we`re having something tasty for lunch tomorrow

 

Sorry, in advance to all the C&R brigade. I forecast that all the plaice caught tomorrow will end up in the pan!!!

[Ken Davison South Wales]

I am having venison casserole tonight, part of a fallow deer shot by one of my friends. Blackberry pie for afters - using fruits ruthlessly torn from their mother-plant in the countryside. No hope for me then.

The last rabbit you gave me Dave was delicious

Hope we`re having something tasty for lunch tomorrow

 

Sorry, in advance to all the C&R brigade. I forecast that all the plaice caught tomorrow will end up in the pan!!!

 

In that case I'll come to yours for tea

[Guest Rabbit]

I'm in the boat Jack, row on

What an amazingly short sighted and selfish attitude!

You seem very confident that you can speak for all "anglers" I am not so sure.

I think I prefer antis to your sort . More honest somehow

 

Your not considering what I am saying, but somehow as always you seem to be abusive. You may put yourself in with the hunting lot, but I am willing to bet the majority of anglers do not have any sympathy with their fight to keep shooting or hunting with dogs or whatever legal. I will say again that many anglers view angling as purely recreational so why on earth would they want to have a liability of an ally with the hunting set? i am not a anti anything no not even hunting.

 

I wouldn't do it, and I don't approve of it but don't try and diminish my point of view with comment such as ''your sort'' and me being 'worse' than antis. Keep it clean and live up to your name and start playing with a straight bat for once.