dazza Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Whats your views on the above? Had a hard time trying to explain it to a girl in work today after a local stag hunt near her village. The stag was brought in by lorry from miles away to be hunted. The hunt trespassed on her fathers land and caused a lot of damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browning Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Personally I think it stinks ! Surely shipping a beast in to an area that it is unfamiliar with is giving it a massive disadvantage. Just the thing the antis will love. I can't understand why, if that particular hunt didn't have any huntable beasts on its own patch, it didn't set up a joint meet with a hunt that did. Maybe I don't understand, maybe I don't have all the facts, but I've hunted for 40 years, and this kind of thing hacks me off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernyha Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I agree with Browning entirely, shipping in animals to be hunted can hardly justify the pro hunting claims that it is a necessary job that they do to control vermin when they have to import the animals to do it. As Browning quite rightly says, they are playing right into the anti's hands and losing some of their sympathisers as well. :< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilishdave Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I am fairly sure that it is ilegal practice!! Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza Posted February 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I agree its stinks as well, I think things like this dont help our sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Fu#king disgrace I think, it will not be long until hunting is banned in NI if that continues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza Posted February 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 It was on the local news, did you see it Ollie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 9R Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 un-real & un-sporting totally agree with ALL the above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 It was on the local news, did you see it Ollie? No I don't see the local news because I'm in england at Uni. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Stag hunting has always been the difficult, "hunting with hounds", activity to defend. There has been more bad publicity attatched to it, than any other form of hunting. Its fair to say that frequently, what gets in the media is often a gross distortion of the truth, lets hope that is the case with this incident. I also thought that trucking in stags to hunt was illegal, or against an agreed Code of Practise. Perhaps thats only in England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodeer Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 If anyone reads cr*p such as the Daily Mail you will see an article about the Quantock Staghounds appartantly killing a cat or dog in someones back garden. Don't like the paper myself but parents buy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big simmo999 Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Bloody cheek to call that hunting!! I don't mind if the beast is on it's territory and given every chance to run the pack - but to "ship it in" is out of order Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozo Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 I think its total balls! very un-sporting and i personally think its cruel to do it to such a magnificent animal, can any1 explain how they enjoy running animal until its drops from exhaustion?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teal Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 I've heard the full story on this (or what I think is). It's completely indefensible. Apparently what they do....All season they chase the same six stags - just rotating and using one on a different patch each meet - the stags are not killed at the end of each day. Northern Ireland is not covered in deer if they are there, it'll be in woods and so after being flushed simply lack the fitness and knowledge of the area in open terrain to be properly hunted. To get round it these "hunters" (i use the term loosely and would prefer to use something which would be censored) just chase a released stag for a day and then the box them up again for use another day. It's completely indefensible I think, as if this is all they are doing they might as well do drag hunting, this is the perfect scenario for drag hunting IMO. They are surely going to get hunting banned in Northern Ireland, they have been warned before by the CA over there a few years ago about this activity but they continue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 just chase a released stag for a day and then the box them up again for use another day. A bit like "catch and release" angling then . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 That's a disgrace & I'm ashamed that this is happening in my country :< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 I don't think the hunting ban applies in Ulster! A bit like the handgun ban! Blair is half Irish, remember! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul in North Lincs. Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 :< I totally agree with all of the aforementioned...... :< Dispicable........... Unsporting.......... Cruel.................. If No-s have to be controlled on a estate or areas of land; then fine; but to capture a wild Stagg, transport it to an alien envirmonemnt; release it bewildered, and in pursuite......................not on....................the anti's would have a friggin field day with this one!!!! Paul in North Lincs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shore_shot Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 utter disgrace, you can not in any turn call that hunting or sport,,no wonder with this sort of thing going on that us true sportsmen have to fight so hard to keep our sport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza Posted February 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Im ashamed too Ollie As for handguns I don't think it would matter if they banned them or not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozo Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 lol handguns dazza?? wat about all the aks etc.! also did u hear about the 3 brand new sa-80 a2's that misteriously went missing from ballykilner?? lol! i have 2 stags that escaped from hunts roaming in my area atm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobster Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 These guys give us all a bad name. See the attached I found surfing the web from an antis site - we don't need to be giving the antis ammunition like this!! http://homepage.eircom.net/~icabs3/videos-dh.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Fuc#ing disgrace :< :< :< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza Posted March 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 shameful :< :< :< :< :< :< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gralloch Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 From those video clips it looks more like Stag wrestling than hunting to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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