southeastpete Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 Just watched a horrible histories episode, and apparently the victorians used to break pigeons wings in order to be abel to shoot them, on the ground. Granted, it would vastly improve my carts to kill ratio, but seems a little unsporting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDAV Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 Seems a lot of effort to catch them, break wings then shoot! No wonder they invented glass balls full of feathers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpatten Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 I don`t know where you got that information from but I think that someone, somewhere has seriously misunderstood the facts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeastpete Posted February 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 as saic, from horrible horistories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpatten Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 Sorry mate, I wrote that rather carelessly. I meant that the Horible Histories producers misunderstood the facts. What did they say exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeastpete Posted February 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 just that they would break pigeons wings before they went on a shoot. Maybe they just clipped them or something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpatten Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 (edited) Not having seen it I`m surmising that they were referring to live pigeon trap shooting. Sometimes the trappers could be bribed to pull the tail feathers from an opponents bird to make it fly erratically but if one broke the wing it would`nt fly at all which would rather defeat the object. Edited February 14, 2012 by mudpatten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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