scoobydoo Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 i have just come back from france after a weeks driving round the d-day beaches and other sights.i was staying in an old farm house that was in the middle of a wheat belt for as far as the eye could see there was fields of the stuff.some had been cut near our house and i have never seen so many birds in my life on the stubble in the morning and early evening. i spoke to the owner of the house as to who owened the land and he said he would take me to see him. i was chatting to the owner and he said it was a problem he has every year and no one shoots round here.he says if you want to shoot it come and stay for as long as you like and shoot what you want.shame it is a long way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avantage sport Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 HI Scoobydoo, I'm French and i live in Normandy , there is a lot of pigeons during summer . But it's very difficult to shoot them .To have an autorization it pratickly impossible.And decoys is forbidden..... Ecologist in France have a great power . JB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 (edited) Most of Europe has a problem with shooting, that'sd why we have so many foreign visitors coming here to shoot...Brits beware your sport is under threat! Support it, use it or lose it! Unlike most of the other countries in Europe here in the UK shooting and conservation go hand in hand and pretty much always have done. Elsewhere it's been and is a free for all and consequently all take and no give has left much of Europe short of not just game but wildlife in general. Don't let this happen here. Ecologists have paid their part but so have the shooters in those countries by continuing to shoot all and sundry without any thought for the future. In the UK shooting and the 'conservation' works that go with it are the biggest and best way to sustain a healthy population of wildlife of all types. Edited August 5, 2008 by Highlander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starlight32 Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Most of Europe has a problem with shooting, that'sd why we have so many foreign visitors coming here to shoot...Brits beware your sport is under threat! Support it, use it or lose it! Unlike most of the other countries in Europe here in the UK shooting and conservation go hand in hand and pretty much always have done. Elsewhere it's been and is a free for all and consequently all take and no give has left much of Europe short of not just game but wildlife in general. Don't let this happen here. Ecologists have paid their part but so have the shooters in those countries by continuing to shoot all and sundry without any thought for the future. In the UK shooting and the 'conservation' works that go with it are the biggest and best way to sustain a healthy population of wildlife of all types. Thats interesting info. Just how restricted are the European countries with regard to pigeon shooting? So crop damage is not considered over there then? How insanely daft.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 starlight32 In Europe pigeons aren't considered the pest they are here, mostly migratory so no big winter damage but I do hear things are changing due to that ol' chestnut 'global warming. In some countries the shooting is highly regulated (Germany, Denmark Nothern European mostly) but in others (southern Med areas) its very loosely controlled and a huge free for all. I hear that in Greece for instance on day one of their shooting season you could be shooting a field with dozens of others and their favourite quarry is Thrush! Mind you I'll say this for them, they eat what they shoot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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