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SHOOTING: THE SPORT: THE FACTS

 

The Shooting Sports Trust have produced an exciting and informative new film about shooting. It is called: SHOOTING: THE SPORT: THE FACTS and covers many branches of our popular sport. The film is comprehensive, fun, and informative. It is available by searching Youtube for 'Shooting: The Sport: The Facts' or 'Shooting Sport Facts, or, by simply clicking on

 

SHOOTING: THE SPORT: THE FACTS is presented by Shooting Sports Trust spokesman and well known shooting writer, , who has made many media appearances recently defending shooting. The film is designed both for those inside the shooting community and those who have no experience of shooting all. It is hoped shooters will show this film to their non-shooting friends and acquaintances, and also to persons of influence such as local councillors and MPs.

 

The concept is that shooting community itself will become the major means of transmission.

 

SHOOTING: THE SPORT: THE FACTS shows shooting as it really is, and makes the point that the proper sporting and professional use of guns is often misrepresented in the mainstream media. Most people have a distorted view of shooting from having seen firearms misuse in the news and popular entertainment. This production tries to put the record straight and shows shooting as it really is. More than a million ordinary, law abiding, and completely normal people in the UK use firearms for sport or their work.

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very good - have sent it out...

 

It's very good, but it doesn't really defend against the most common argument used by antis (and most folk who don't know about shooting) - that it's just cruel to shoot live quarry no matter what the circumstances. When I'm in a position where I have to explain why I shoot pheasants (for example), I always point out that all of our birds get eaten, so in fact it's a bit like chicken farming... except:

 

1) the majority of the birds we rear escape the guns and eventually die of natural causes

2) until the instant it's shot, a pheasant lives completely free. Compared to a cow which is squashed into a lorry and transported to a slaughterhouse and certain death - an utterly miserable way to spend its last day.

 

Unless the person you're talking to is a vegetarian, that pretty much defeats the argument about cruelty. After that, all that's left to talk about is the fact that some folk like to wear tweeds.

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Hi Al,

 

 

Those are very good arguments, I have a couple of vegetarian/hippie type friends who I managed to convince by taking them on a shoot walk and letting them see for themselves. They were really impressed by all the thought that goes in to game keeping etc, and how the shooters have such a great respect for wildlife - which is something they hadn't realised before.

 

It's just the narrow minded/misguided ones who don't understand.

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I have a couple of vegetarian/hippie type friends who I managed to convince by taking them on a shoot walk and letting them see for themselves

 

Funny you should say that - just the other day I wrote to my local MP to make a case for reasonable and balanced discussion of shotgun certification when the debate comes around, and I invited him to come along for either a tour of our shoot, or to attend as a peg-side guest on one of our shoot days. I expect that if he accepts the invitation, I'll be able to show him flocks of pigs soaring overhead!

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Very good. I've just sent a link to two people whom I feel would benefit from a little more knowledge about shooting.

When I get a moment, I'll dig out my MPs email address and send the link to him, refering to his reply to my letter of course.

 

webber

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Hi Al,

 

 

Those are very good arguments, I have a couple of vegetarian/hippie type friends who I managed to convince by taking them on a shoot walk and letting them see for themselves. They were really impressed by all the thought that goes in to game keeping etc, and how the shooters have such a great respect for wildlife - which is something they hadn't realised before.

 

It's just the narrow minded/misguided ones who don't understand.

y do us vegeterians get blame for being anti shooting :lol: im a vegey but i like to shoot live quary and clen it and cook it but i just canot eat it :good:

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y do us vegeterians get blame for being anti shooting :lol: im a vegey but i like to shoot live quary and clen it and cook it but i just canot eat it :good:

Just interested, but for what reason are you vegitarian; taste, health, ethics, religion?

 

Not that you need to explain yourself, I'm just curious.

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That is a really good film, but I just got the feeling they were scared to show the death of an animal. It kept cutting the scene, as if they were actually scared to show it when you obviously know that rabbit got it ;) . I think they like to vamp the sporting element of it loads, and put the death element as far away as possible in any message, which is obviously good for marketing. But when you are trying to show something in a better light, its probably a good idea to just show the reality of it in the sporting setting. The biggest threat shooting has, is most likely from anti-hunting groups, the government see's the need for it to be kept in sport. So if its clamped down on it will probably be in the hunting element. Which most immediately see as cruel :unsure: , the best thing to do is to just show them it, and let them get over it :lol:

 

 

That would be my only take on it if I was made to have one :P

 

Steve

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