Deserve prosecution?

[stefnc]

I think the police have enough b@ll**** to answer for when things dont always go quite according to plan when it comes to firearms, but its easily done, how many of you have missed an animal only to wound it? (im sure due to bravado many will deny even doing this but i sure have and am not proud of it)

 

my point being that how can any of you even imagine a random fac owner being called to an incident,- only to miss and hit god knows what! theres enough negative press on our sport without that- lets leave it to the police!

[stevethevanman]

We can theorise all we like, but at the end of the day, we werent there, and cant judge the people that were there.

 

Maybe the horses were running?...Maybe he tried for the chest instead of head shot?

 

Maybe they were a long range away? where the .308 (which is what I assume he used) has alot less penetration, especially on such a big animal.

 

Also you have to bring into account, actual human morals, do you think the police would have liked to have seen a horse shot 19 times!!!..do you think the marksman did it on purpose?..OF COURSE NOT!..things just happened to play out that way, the marksman would of needed to reload a number of times to fire 19 shots with a bolt action rifle, unless it was of course .223 semi auto. In which case, in the chest it could very well have taken 19 shots.

 

There also isnt alot of courses for containing escaped horses that police can go on, the way they responded may not have had a decisive written protocol to follow at the time

 

Although if they did it on purpose (which I think they didnt) they do deserve to be punished, however, who did what?......BIG ENQUIRY THAT WILL GET NO WHERE

 

Steve

Edited September 21, 2010 by stevethevanman

[Billy.]

night night

 

fudd.

 

Pure gold.

 

[inthedark]

Reads like a 50/50 forum split on wether the cops are good guys or bad guys. Vote, anyone?

[Billy.]

Reads like a 50/50 forum split on wether the cops are good guys or bad guys. Vote, anyone?

 

Good guys. I'm not going to dislike a person who wants to work in an environment where they're there to help you.

 

People complain about coppers, but look at the corruption in other countries. At least if I get pulled over by a copper for a random check, I know I'm not going to need £50 to pay him off.

Edited September 21, 2010 by Billy.

[inthedark]

Good guys. I'm not going to dislike a person who wants to work in an environment where they're there to help you.

 

People complain about coppers, but look at the corruption in other countries. At least if I get pulled over by a copper for a random check, I know I'm not going to need £50 to pay him off.

 

Thank God I'm not alone. Some are paid too much though.

[UKPoacher]

What a lot of you cannot comprehend is that shooting a large angry animal in an urban environment where there is a real danger to the public either through the actions of the animal itself or from the actions of the firearms officers dealing is far different to stalking Charlie in the fields with your .17HMR.

 

You don't know the facts. You don't appreciate just how difficult these situations can be, yet you feel able to heap scorn on officers doing their best to resolve the situation.

[al4x]

What a lot of you cannot comprehend is that shooting a large angry animal in an urban environment where there is a real danger to the public either through the actions of the animal itself or from the actions of the firearms officers dealing is far different to stalking Charlie in the fields with your .17HMR.

 

You don't know the facts. You don't appreciate just how difficult these situations can be, yet you feel able to heap scorn on officers doing their best to resolve the situation.

 

 

by the very nature of the entire report they were out in fields and had been for a number of days. Yes it was one way to catch them but we all know with a rifle you cannot chase your quarry down, it sounds like a policeman had to do this to find the same out.