Benellimelody Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Hi everyone. Well just wondered if anyone else had seen the article in this months BASC magazine about the fishery bloke being beat up for shooting the cormorant. (He had a license to cull 4 a year as they were hammering the stock) Could you have held your temper? What would of been the implications if he'd retaliated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogey Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 i guess if he had fought back he would probably have been arrested and lost his SGC and the ******* who started it would have walked away scott free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 yup thats about it, self defence is very difficult when you've got a shotgun with you. Plus I'm guessing from the pasting he got that there was a decent size difference between them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benellimelody Posted January 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Exactly my thoughts. You have to be so careful when you have a SGC and/or FAC etc as they will easily take it away from you and mine is worth more to me than my life in some respects. Even if someone was punchin me when i was in the right i would run rather than fight cos things can easily get twisted. I reckon there will of been similar circumstances/ events where innocent shooters lost their guns because they defended themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bicykillgaz Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 i saw it too it makes me real mad as the guy wouldn't even listen to reason! and as you point out even if the guy was able to defend himself it would have gone against him, its a sad world when self defence is a crime! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixer1 Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 (edited) I enjoy my shooting but at the end of the day my well being is more important, if someone was intent on doing me harm the gun would get laid down empty and i'd be on the offensive/defensive...if it came to court and i was procecuted for protecting myself then so be it, at the end of the day the guy could have been killed....no cert is worth that for trying not to protect yourself! Edited January 7, 2010 by gixer1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 I enjoy my shooting but at the end of the day my well being is more important, if someone was intent on doing me harm the gun would get laid down empty and i'd be on the offensive/defensive...if it came to court and i was procecuted for protecting myself then so be it, at the end of the day the guy could have been killed....no cert is worth that for trying not to protect yourself! you'd be fine in that case, i think people are thinking could you have used the firearm in self defence . I'm guessing the guy who did the assault knew he had the upper hand as lets face it if the guy was bigger than him would he have started it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Shoot him in one foot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonT Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 He must have escaped from the local mental hospital, as who in there right mind would attack someone holding a gun... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiho Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Shoot him in one foot? or in the face and push him in the sea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choke it Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 i would of taught him a lesson in self defence AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurchers1 Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 best be careful then ive just applied for a licence to deal with our cormorant prob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drut Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 I notice in the article the guy who was attacked said a name for the attacker had been suggested(Pity help him if it becomes public knowledge I would have thought).I hope BASC both push for intense police enquiry into this case & let us know the outcome.This case although very serious could have been even worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyb79 Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Fancy getting beaten up by an ornithologist. Not an easy one to live down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegleg31 Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Fancy getting beaten up by an ornithologist. Not an easy one to live down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 yup thats about it, self defence is very difficult when you've got a shotgun with you. Plus I'm guessing from the pasting he got that there was a decent size difference between them! I would have thought that self decence when you have a shotgun with you was easy. Unless you had to post on here asking what cartridge to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyb79 Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 I would have thought that self decence when you have a shotgun with you was easy. Unless you had to post on here asking what cartridge to use. What choke would be best to hit an incoming large man with flailing binoculars at approximately 10 yards?......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bicykillgaz Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 that bill oddie's a nasty little *******! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandamonia Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 (edited) I would have shot him in the feet and claimed i dropped the gun and it went off *OOPS* As Bruce Lee once said - Cant stand cant fight Edited January 7, 2010 by pandamonia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlin vs Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Have you got a lint to that article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWD Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Couldnt he have beaten him off with the dead cormorant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPT1 Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 As an Angler I am very aware of how cormorants are decimating rivers. On the Thames they are plotted up every 20 mtres. They've been takin the small and young fish for years so there are no fish reaching maturity. As far as being beaten up goes you take your chances every day nowadays. Attack is the best form of defence. Make sure you hurt with as little visible damage as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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