Red-dot Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 I rear i shoot i trap i stalk i observe i sit out i control i feed i eat i understand but most of all i respect and love our wildlife, they are not just targets or here on earth for rich people to massacre. I am an animal lover.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 I am an animal lover too, great with red wine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 We went and spread my old dogs ashes few weeks back whilst out we saw baby mallard, pheasant, lambs, squirrels several song birds green woodpecker, horses and the big finale was two roe running across the field in front of us, the wildlife we saw made us all happy.😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manthing Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Couldn't agree more matey, love watching the local wildlife when I'm out and about. Hares, Partridge, Phesent, Buzzard, Dear and I think we have Lapwings, will have to put the binos across them to tell properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 I rear i shoot i trap i stalk i observe i sit out i control i feed i eat i understand but most of all i respect and love our wildlife, they are not just targets or here on earth for rich people to massacre. I am an animal lover.... I didn't realise only rich people massacre wildlife and by implication only people who ain't rich love and respect wildlife?......Every days a school day eh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-dot Posted May 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Obviously never witnessed a corporate day on the pheasants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmytree Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Obviously never witnessed a corporate day on the pheasants? Are pheasants counted as wildlife? An introduced, non native species. (like grey squirrels) reared in great numbers to be chased over static guns at great cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Obviously never witnessed a corporate day on the pheasants? Generalisation is always a mistake! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-dot Posted May 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Not as big a mistake as being blinkered....😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Not as big a mistake as being blinkered.... Blinkered? Is that being prejudiced against everyone from a particular social group? Lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Pheasant shooting is a process of harvesting a very healthy food product..........also a very enviromentally freindly product.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjpainter Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 (edited) Pheasant shooting is a process of harvesting a very healthy food product..........also a very enviromentally freindly product.... Some debate about that. A fair few papers link the disappearance of the adder to pheasant numbers. They seem to have a taste for the young ones. Also, there's a case to be made that they're pretty rotten for biodiversity, as their numbers are kept in much higher numbers than normal habitat constraints would permit, so their feeding habits have a much greater impact on invertebrate food species. Taste good though. Edited May 2, 2017 by chrisjpainter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinchesterDave Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 I shoot more wildlife with the camera than the gun currently - it equals out more in the season mind.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 OH moved a rotten log in the wood last weekend and out shot Mum and Dad weasel and babies. They weren't half doing some chittering telling him off for disturbing them. Shame we didn't have the camera handy as they were cute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 Counted 43 dead phesants and a redleg on the tarmac as I drove through my local commercial shoot two weeks ago, there was probably at least the same number on the verge unsighted. I do not think I am alone in thinking that the big commercial shoots are now an industrial opperation more akin to the intensive farming of livestock. You only have to watch the youtube clips of the big 'names' shooting on these kind of places to realise that it is little more than target shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 Obviously never witnessed a corporate day on the pheasants? Nope no in May Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieT Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 Goodness me, it really does seem the inmates have taken over the asylum. Many threads on this and other forum berate anti fieldsport propaganda and such bigoted views, yet it seems to me we do a jolly good job of doing it for them. Quite how some can castigate those who enjoy a 400 bird day on pheasants, which works out at say 50 birds per gun equating to 6 birds per gun per drive, yet are more than happy to shoot 40/50 plus pigeons in a single outing is beyond me. A touch of the green eyed monster mixed with a little ignorance and class hatred perhaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 I rear i shoot i trap i stalk i observe i sit out i control i feed i eat i understand but most of all i respect and love our wildlife, they are not just targets or here on earth for rich people to massacre. I am an animal lover.... What do you "rear" ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 Obviously never witnessed a corporate day on the pheasants? I wouldn't knock it; if it weren't for the landed gentry or so called aristocracy, there would be no tradition of game shooting in this country. And that would leave us where? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobbyathome Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 I rear i shoot i trap i stalk i observe i sit out i control i feed i eat i understand but most of all i respect and love our wildlife, they are not just targets or here on earth for rich people to massacre. I am an animal lover.... bit of a strange post red dot I think 99% of us on pigeonwatch love animals is this just a post about rich people shooting ?or a demented anti trying to get a reaction I personally love all animals but do go shooting to kill some of them it doesn't make me a bad person and as for the rich that is one thing I am not and I can not afford to go on pheasant shoots but would love to I have nothing bad to say about people with more money than me shooting good luck to them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 I was expecting a thread about the wildlife people see when out and about not just shooting. I've been Beating on pheasant shoots and grouse moors on both little and large, personally I prefer the Smaller shoot with a mixed bag and a good laugh but if people want to pay for bigger bags and more shooting then that's up to them. As mentioned above a team of 8-12 guns on a 250 bird day might only shoot 20-25 birds each but someone has to pay for the birds being there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
button Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 This thread has an element of "light fuse and stand back and enjoy" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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