Hunting, shooting and fishing poll

[lutra]

Said John, "I am a splendid shot"

 

and Sandy said, "I've fished a lot"

 

While Pat said, "I'm a sporting man,

 

and I catch anything I can"

 

From "Sportsmen Three"

 

Get to bed if your off early and enjoy your tiger hunting.

[Vagabond]

Get to bed if your off early and enjoy your tiger hunting.

We fly tomorrow evening, flying overnight, so I can annoy everyone just a bit longer.

[Dick Dastardly]

Never liked the idea of hunting and I stoped shooting many years ago.Now I only fish.

[Guest tigger]

It's not efficient in terms of man hours per fox. Where I was brought up the rule was, "thou shalt not suffer a fox to live", we didn't want any getting away "for another day" and we didn't have daft gamekeepers breeding the bloody things so that the hunt had enough to hunt.

 

 

 

When I used to do a lot on Charlie I used nets, shotguns Terries and Lurchers. If we where after clearing Charlie out then we would use nets, lurchers and shot guns and we took no prisoners. Wev'e had seven adult foxes out of one small set ......I'd say that was pretty efficient.

By the way we never set out to make Charlie extinct but to keep his numbers down.

[Emma two]

It's not efficient in terms of man hours per fox.

 

Perhaps not, but then nor is angling an especially efficient way of catching fish. On sunday I saw 10 men fishing a match on a well stocked small commercial, the total result of their efforts would not have filled 2 decent fish pies, wheras 2 men with a net could have emptied the place, but then we all know thats not the point, 'angling' for 'em is much more fun.

 

Hunting while costly in 'man hours' is the only method of taking foxes which ensures a quick kill.

Edited October 14, 2008 by Emma two

[JV44]

Used to shoot a bit but now its only Pigeons of the clay type and Rats really hate Rats,Never been hunting but family and friends do so have often been to Hunt balls for the entertainment value.

Dont like the ban it because i dont do it mentality that seems to be part of today i have no interest in going Hunting so i dont but think that some of the fishing styles could be and do take stick for being cruel but again if you are not happy then dont do it use that method.

My tuppence worth anyway good subject Anderoo stand back and light the blue touchpaper Steve.

[corydoras]

Perhaps not, but then nor is angling an especially efficient way of catching fish. On sunday I saw 10 men fishing a match on a well stocked small commercial, the total result of their efforts would not have filled 2 decent fish pies, wheras 2 men with a net could have emptied the place, but then we all know thats not the point, 'angling' for 'em is much more fun.

 

Hunting while costly in 'man hours' is the only method of taking foxes which ensures a quick kill.

Emma

I was born and brought up on Scottish hill farms, farms that were not 'tenant' farms so we did not have to let any hunt on our land. Foxes were vermin, like mice, rats, cockroaches. We didn't kill foxes or any other wildlife for 'fun', we killed them so that they would not take new born lambs. A high velocity .22 or a .303 round usually results in a pretty quick kill. Ten bores and sparrow hail were not used.

[Emma two]

A high velocity .22 or a .303 round usually results in a pretty quick kill.

 

We used 243s whenever possible, however high velocity rifles present thier own problems, your land may have been remote enough to use them freely, the land we controlled is infested with people, many of them camping off site and wandering around even at night. One had to be especially sure about the backdrop. The key word you used is 'usually' and it's true those weapons often result in quick kills, but in no way it that always the case. With the pack, or lurchers there is no 'usually', either the fox gets away clean or is killed quickly.

[corydoras]

We used 243s whenever possible, however high velocity rifles present thier own problems, your land may have been remote enough to use them freely, the land we controlled is infested with people, many of them camping off site and wandering around even at night. One had to be especially sure about the backdrop. The key word you used is 'usually' and it's true those weapons often result in quick kills, but in no way it that always the case. With the pack, or lurchers there is no 'usually', either the fox gets away clean or is killed quickly.

Yes but we had dogs too. Not lurchers, usually border cairn crosses. If we knew where a vixen was bringing up cubs we would do the lot with terriers. My point is that whilst I did not support the banning of fox hunting, the pro hunting lobby earned nothing but scorn from me because of the claim that it was 'efficient', 20 dogs, as many horses, maybe more and god knows how many hangers on and followers does not seem very efficient of to me. When I was young I heard tales that some estates in Fife actually used to bring on young foxes if there were not enough 'wild' ones that year. I have no proof of this of course, it's just anecdotal, but it would not surprise me if it were true (nor would it surprise me if it were not true). Edited October 14, 2008 by corydoras

[poledark]

Never hunted in the accepted sense, but used to shoot (rough and stalking). I have owned and shot with an FAC rated air rifle, and at 26ft/lbs it was more than adequate for rabbits.

 

I went "on the march" to support the hunters, 240,000 of us wasted our time there.................

 

But now the thought of killing anything, even rats is abhorrant to me, but I will kill rats around my home, and mice, and even spiders to keep the wife happy.

 

I still fish though.

 

Den