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    My way of looking at things is i am a meat eater. I have no qualms about knocking the cow, chicken, pig rabbit, hare etc on the head - shooting it before going to the barbecue if that's what it takes. Equally i have no quarms about elimenating pest species that are a derect result of producing the above and other food sources to feed my self + family. Equally i would be more than happily catch my own fish if i could (despite trying i have never so much as ever got a nibble, at least with a rifle you know there's something there or not!)

    IMHO if you want to be a vegetarian, that's fine. Just don't force that on me.

    If you want to eat meat and get all gushy about were it comes from, that's a problem you need to settle for your self. I have no issue about doing the dead to feed me and my family. As a society i personally feel we are become way to removed from our food sources to make sensible decisions about it. if Joe Blogs had to kill and pluck his chicken for Sunday lunch, i reckon there would have been a lot less chickens in the oven today! But that's a issue for the individual to decide, not society as a whole.

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    Agree with much that you say, hunting is deeply ingrained in the male of our species, the ability to hunt used to be a necessary survival skill for many thousands of years, and practicing that skill in order to hone the ability is a vital part of it. However, when you are simply killing for the enjoyment killing, when there is no challenge or hardship for the hunter - then you have a problem. This is what the anti's cannot understand, some still have the hunter's instincts in them. Lose it and we all become pen-raised chickens...
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisH00 View Post
    However, when you are simply killing for the enjoyment killing, when there is no challenge ... for the hunter -
    Slight contradiction there, old boy.

    Nothing wrong with it, the dead animal does not care about your frame of mind, or is any more or less dead for it - but 99% of us on here hunt or fish for the pleasure (enjoyment) mainly derived from the challenge, not out of any necessity or duty.

    It's time many people got over this.
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    I don't think there's much much challenge in shooting a pheasant with an air rifle. never was there a more stupid bird. Sheep with wings!!!
    I've run so many over by accident I've lost count...... trouble is three cock pheasants V Swift GTI and scratch one Swift front valence. Still havent worked out who to send the bill to.
    I suppose that as they are reared they are some sort of live stock and should not be wanderering all over the road.
    Agree with the previous comment. Pigeons are tastier.
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    Quote Originally Posted by QUIGLEY View Post
    I don't think there's much much challenge in shooting a pheasant with an air rifle. never was there a more stupid bird. Sheep with wings!!!
    I've run so many over by accident I've lost count....
    With regards to road kill, the same could be said for rabbits could it not?

    How much more of a challenge do you want when trying to hit a bobbing pheasants head at a reasonable range? No different than shooting decoyed pigeons on stubble.

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    Quote Originally Posted by p.sharp View Post
    With regards to road kill, the same could be said for rabbits could it not?

    How much more of a challenge do you want when trying to hit a bobbing pheasants head at a reasonable range? No different than shooting decoyed pigeons on stubble.
    Same here, I find shooting pheasants more difficult than rabbits, but the best fun is to be had when the neighbours have a shoot on, wait till they land on our land then shoot them and then walk along the boundary ditch and give the game keeper a cheery wave

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    Quote Originally Posted by walnutfarmmick View Post
    On the first of September,
    One Sunday morn,
    I shot a hen pheasant
    in standing corn
    without a licence!
    Imagine if you can
    such a trio of crimes
    against God and man.


    Probably traditional (and definitely not a confession)

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    Well they are a little late bringing in the corn around here Mick! That could drop it down to just two crimes!

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    I've just had a quick look over this thread, and I've not spotted (though might have missed) the important point about game rights vs vermin-shooting permission.

    In order to shoot game as far as I'm aware you need permission not from the landowner or the tenant, but from the holder of the game rights: who might well be neither of those two.
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    what I find utterly bizzare is the notion Pheasants are such dumb birds they are no sport for an air rifle, yet, its sporting to blast them with a shotgun??
    so if you come accross a pheasant on the ground when carrying your shotgun what do you do, shout and wave your arms until it takes off then blast i?
    or,
    give it a good talking too about putting on a right and proper sporting show so you can blast it with a clear concience?
    or
    do you blast it stick it in the bag and wander off looking for something else to blast!

    just wondering because i can pretty much guess which option would be taken 99% of the time!

    sporting? poppycock, if you want sport play football!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Artfull-Bodger View Post
    what I find utterly bizzare is the notion Pheasants are such dumb birds they are no sport for an air rifle, yet, its sporting to blast them with a shotgun??
    so if you come accross a pheasant on the ground when carrying your shotgun what do you do, shout and wave your arms until it takes off then blast i?
    or,
    give it a good talking too about putting on a right and proper sporting show so you can blast it with a clear concience?
    or
    do you blast it stick it in the bag and wander off looking for something else to blast!

    just wondering because i can pretty much guess which option would be taken 99% of the time!

    sporting? poppycock, if you want sport play football!
    Football is a game, not a sport.

    Shooting is a sport. A pheasant is game.

    The correct procedure is to try option 2 first, letting your dog do the talking, if you have one with you. If that doesn't work, try option 1.
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    naaaw , killing animals is not sport, its just called that to gloss over what your doing!

    I shot plenty of rabbits as a youngster, did i consider it sport or ethical, heck no I did it because i sold the rabbits to buy ammo and I got a kick out of stalking and killing rabbits!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Artfull-Bodger View Post
    naaaw , killing animals is not sport, its just called that to gloss over what your doing!

    I shot plenty of rabbits as a youngster, did i consider it sport or ethical, heck no I did it because i sold the rabbits to buy ammo and I got a kick out of stalking and killing rabbits!
    Calling football a sport is glossing over the fact that it is in fact just a game. I don't see how calling shooting a sport glosses over anything - everyone knows birds and animals end up dead if you do it properly.


    Anyhow, you seeming to be saying that you don't think shooting is a sport.

    I, however, think it is. So there.
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    and that my friend is the great benefit of living in a free society, both you and I are entitled to our opinions , we dont have to agree just agree we dont agree

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    Quote Originally Posted by QUIGLEY View Post
    I don't think there's much much challenge in shooting a pheasant with an air rifle. never was there a more stupid bird. Sheep with wings!!!
    I've run so many over by accident I've lost count...... trouble is three cock pheasants V Swift GTI and scratch one Swift front valence. Still havent worked out who to send the bill to.
    I suppose that as they are reared they are some sort of live stock and should not be wanderering all over the road.
    Agree with the previous comment. Pigeons are tastier.
    Angry from Hereford.

    I would sooner stalk a rabbit than a pheasant, the kill zone on a rabbits much bigger too
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