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Post by racaille on Oct 5, 2015 10:02:27 GMT
I have nothing against properly controlled hunting; on the contrary, I prefer to eat meat from animals who have lived wild and well and died a quick death in the field, rather than poor beasts stuffed full of drugs and then subjected to the horrors of the abbatoir. Indeed, last week I bought some wild boar meat and a partridge from my hunter neighbour. BUT I detest the 'macho bloke with a gun' mentality of some of the guys who wander the vineyards - and who try to cross my paddocks as a shortcut. They should not. Yesterday (Sunday is a big hunting day) one young jerk tried to climb through my electric fencing. It was on ... and pulsing at 10,000 volts. Heh heh. Unfortunately it was his poor dog that got the shock and ran off yelping, but it made the tosser think twice about taking the shortcut. He won't try again.   |
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Post by brigadier on Oct 5, 2015 12:55:22 GMT
the fool! We get the hooray henry shooters here. They all converge at the weekend for the organised shoots. They are not allowed on the field at the back of ours but doesnt stop them trying.Send my horses bonkers as they arent used to movement/noise there. But like you I often get the spoils for our table as the twits dont take the meat home. They just like to shoot it.
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Post by haffyfan on Oct 5, 2015 15:47:51 GMT
haha, although it's a shame it was the dog that got zapped not him.
There are organised shoots from the farm and they arise pheasants, partridges etc. luckily they have plenty of space and keep well away from the horses. My boys are fine with everything but beaters with plastic bags on sticks! Pen isn't keen on the pheasants (which are everywhere at the min) they scare her sh*tless when they fly out of hedges/undergrowth. Time will tell what she thinks of seeing the shoots out and about as i avoided shooting days last winter with her being so green. Mind you i never ride in afternoons when it's a shoot as i'm never sure about their aim after a liquid lunch and hip flask or two!
The 'idiots' (to use a polite word) who illegally hunt are by far the worst, there was a deer shot the other week in one of the fields just up the lane, they got the bullet out but couldn't trace where it had come from. Poor thing, such a waste of a beautiful mature stag...they didn't even take anything either, just shot it!
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Post by brigadier on Oct 6, 2015 13:56:12 GMT
Haff thats awful, why shoot it? We love eating venison but just to shoot it is wrong. Plus a good stag wouldnt get shot by decent hunters, they cull the weak ones but leave the decent ones. Very sad and a great waste.
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Post by haffyfan on Oct 6, 2015 15:42:11 GMT
I know it's just beyond comprehension why anyone would do it but sadly they do. Now the poor thing is destined to be an [impressive] skull on a plaque well before it's time should have been up. Lola Lu currently likes to keep an eye on what stage of decomposition/natural cleaning it's at when she comes to the horses!
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Post by racaille on Oct 7, 2015 8:55:29 GMT
It disgusts me that blokes (it's generally men, isn't it?) can kill something and then not eat it! I abhor the French habit of shooting tiny songbirds, but at least they eat them.  |
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