i have had the opportunity to read one of the air rifle mags recently, there is a right up by a gentleman porporting to be a smallholder, in scotland i think, he recounts a tale of a crow he was hunting that he had seen attacking a young rabbit apparently it had opened up the cavity to reveal the intestines which it was devouring whilst the rabbit still lived, he chased of the offending corvid and prceeded to put the still living rabbit in his pocket so that it may die in peace in the dark, is this man mad, why not simply dispatch the rabbit there and then, i have to ask who the hell are these people, i should imagine this is all purely imaginary as i feel most of the dross in these so called shooting magazines is.
engineer
'These people'? I thought you were talking about one person.Originally Posted by engineer
... i have to ask who the hell are these people, i should imagine this is all purely imaginary as i feel most of the dross in these so called shooting magazines is.
engineer
The man in question is John Bezzant, who lives on a smallholding in Scotland. John has his own way of doing things, but he does them as he says. He uses his airguns to provide food and they are tools, not leisure items.
As for the 'dross in these so called shooting magazines', if you'd care to be specific about what you mean, I'm sure the people on here who contribute to the mags will put you straight. I know I will.
Over to you.
I think you may be over-thinking what the OP was thinking.Ignoring the disparaging remarks, I think the exception is being taken over the caring ceremony of allowing a gutted kit to expire in percieved agony in the dark.
Is it OK to let an animal suffer needlessly if its 'your own way of doing things'
hows about you terry comeing down to shoot on my land i have & do a small review on the day out.you will have to drive of course.
NO YOU CANT LET ANY ANIMAL SUFFER NO MATTER WOT IT IS.ONE SHOT KILL THATS ALL IT SHOULD TAKE YES WE ALL MAKE MISTAKE.S.
I must admit I haven't seen the article, but if he didn't put a quite clearly horrifically wounded animal out of its misery straight away, he's gone down in my estimation. That's just heartless surely. A man so used to taking the life of an animal for food wouldn't have any qualms about putting one out of its misery, and I'm sure he could have despatched it quickly enough. We all have our own ways, but this seems rather odd behaviour to me.
terry i know you are somewhat sensetive about your mag in particular, to be honest i am not sure i which of the mags it appeared, however perhaps dross was a slight exageration, but i would like to mention another bloomer shall we say, one of the writers in one of the mags again i am not sure which one was advocating slanting your rifle to allow for an uphill angle of shooting claiming the trjaectory as highlighted by a diagram would assist in easier shooting of tree bound pigeons i await your comment.
engineer
Is this true?
Just love to see the anti's with this:
'Man out hunting pockets mortally wounded rabbit while chasing after a crow'
Is this the sort of image of a gun owner we need?
I would hope it didn't come across quite right in print, but it doesn't sound good
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To cut a very long story extremely short this should (hopefully) clear this up (again!?).terry i know you are somewhat sensetive about your mag in particular, to be honest i am not sure i which of the mags it appeared, however perhaps dross was a slight exageration, but i would like to mention another bloomer shall we say, one of the writers in one of the mags again i am not sure which one was advocating slanting your rifle to allow for an uphill angle of shooting claiming the trjaectory as highlighted by a diagram would assist in easier shooting of tree bound pigeons i await your comment.
engineer
ATB, Del.
Last edited by Sifu; 02-12-2008 at 06:28 PM.
No. The rabbit was seconds from dying. Breaking its neck wouldn't have made its death more humane. John Bezzant did what he thought was right, for reasons he thought best.Is it OK to let an animal suffer needlessly if its 'your own way of doing things'
That was Steve Price, who is a member on here. Steve would be the first to admit that his raw copy can present a 'challenge' or two to the editor, and this time what Steve meant was lost in translation. So, a msunderstanding resulted....one of the writers in one of the mags again i am not sure which one was advocating slanting your rifle to allow for an uphill angle of shooting claiming the trjaectory as highlighted by a diagram would assist in easier shooting of tree bound pigeons i await your comment.
engineer
I've made the odd mistake myself at times. Have you?
i am sorry i read your explanation but to me it does not stack up, any slating of the rifle will put the percieved object fore or aft of your aim point due to the scope being above the barrel, and the round crossing the scope sight line going up initially and down secondly so any slanting will put your aim point of, the round will leave the muzzle and drop vertically down thus not landing were you are pointing the scope.
engineer
Ok so you thought it strange & perhaps it was ,we all have our ways though & thats one of the wonderfull things about life .Sometimes you can't win ,some people go on about lets post this & that & f the anti's but then when something a little bit out of ordinary gets brought up they moan about that aswell .In all honesty imho this seems like it was just another little cheap shot at the mags or maybe i'm wrong .Oh & the bloke who wrote the artical about the slanted shot seems to know what he's on about not that i've tried it but i'm not as knowlegeable about such things as he his...cheers marcus
i know its going off the matter in hand but is there any of the airgun mag people like to come shoot on my land & do a write up of the day out may be steve price terry doe gary c or any one els.
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