Dumping of shot pheasants
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That's right, just shove your head in the sand and hope everything will be OK.
Franchi Matt
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Theres an FB group called - giving up the game - some of you may already use it.
I too am always disappointed in just how few people take birds after the shoot.....
I too am always disappointed in just how few people take birds after the shoot.....
Ah yes. Someone posts a video showing some poor behaviour recorded by antis and half the people on here use it as a stick to beat and argue with each other. Pathetic in the extreme and massively counter-productive.
Give yourselves a shake. You might like some field sports and not others. But how is "dissing" field sports you don't like ever going to end well?
Give yourselves a shake. You might like some field sports and not others. But how is "dissing" field sports you don't like ever going to end well?
Or take more than you shot! On Saturday, I shared a gun on an end of season beaters day and connected with 3 pheasants. I took home 8 and the whole bag was divided up. I normally get fed up after plucking two so I will pluck two and skin the rest into breasts and legs for the freezer. Carcasses get roasted to make pheasant stock with random vegetables and herbs. It doesn't seem to matter to much if they still have some feathers on.
I appreciate you weren't looking for a reply, but I want to get a positive post into this thread!
That is the way to do it sir . Hungry now
baguio
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No different to straw being a bi-product of growing wheat and barley TBH. The difference is that people don't travel around the country chucking money at local country estates, hotels and pubs to eat wheat.
Lets not forget that one of the reasons that venison prices are currently quite low is because the hospitality industry is working at well below pre-covid levels. That will hopefully change in the near future though.
baguio
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Does it? I'm very much involved in field sports. I don't think that the deer I shoot have much choice about being involved though.
Exactly this is what turned my mind against ever participating is ‘shoots’.
As a boy in Norfolk, I witnessed the local shoot bulldozing a large hole and filling it with shot pheasants after the shoot.
Made my blood boil even at that age.
Have never participated on a paid shoot to this day as the childhood memory is always in my mind.
I shoot what I will eat, no more (rats, squirrels and foxes excluded obviously).
As a boy in Norfolk, I witnessed the local shoot bulldozing a large hole and filling it with shot pheasants after the shoot.
Made my blood boil even at that age.
Have never participated on a paid shoot to this day as the childhood memory is always in my mind.
I shoot what I will eat, no more (rats, squirrels and foxes excluded obviously).
Look at it dispassionately.
The birds are being reared to be shot, not as a food source.
The shoots are there to provide birds to be shot, not to serve food.
The guns on driven shoots pay money to shoot birds, not to source food.
The justification for shooting is that guns are paying for the service being provided. If that service wasn't being provided, they would shoot elsewhere. If that service was no longer available at all, they would be playing golf or something similar.
Taking a brace of birds home at the end of the day is purely coincidental.
palmer_mike
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Kind of like breeding pigeons and trap shooting them then?
We know what happened to that pastime don’t we
baguio
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There are loads of animals and birds shot all over the world that are not eaten. Why is that so difficult to understand? Not sure what foxes, rats or magpies taste like but I just don't fancy them.
Or perhaps like catching stocked trout in stillwaters, or repeatedly catching large carp - the enjoyment obtained is deemed sufficient to outweigh any potential "cruelty" involved?
So birds are killed for...........peoples amusement sport joy money etc insert any description you like, but if I was to look at it dispassionately , it would be killing for killings sake, but I don't want to judge others, nor would I want to provide the anti's with a gilt edged opportunity, it just sits very uneasilywith me. As I child I was taught to eat what you shoot, & yes I have eaten some very interesting dishes, Skylark, Swallow, Moorhen, Lapwings & frogs, plus a few more that I don't want to mention. And shame on me. I am older & wiser.
Malxwal
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Yes, it's apparently perfectly acceptable to traumatise and wound a fish, ugly buggers...
