The mention of catapults.
Dumped pheasants
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To what are you referring?
This stuff isn't credible, because there isn't any plausible explanation for people who shoot legitimately effectively fly-tipping dead birds - they have much easier and more private ways of disposing of them. Who goes to extra effort for a much worse solution? It's poachers, whether travellers or of other ilks.
jimmer.13
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For those nay sayers that don’t believe it’s a regular occurrence
Gamekeeper run over by poachers still in hospital - ShootingUK
ShootingUK News - Gamekeeper run over by poachers still in hospital
www.shootinguk.co.uk
sako751sg
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Correct.
The antis don't get much coverage when they act all drama queen with their stink pit pictures so now set it up in public places to try and make it much worse.
However,only the gullibles think that these are real situations no matter how implausible they are and they carry very little credence,so much so that it really is a "the boy that cried wolf" situation with them.
In every walk of life, there are those who indulge in bad practices. Whether evidence of this is new or old, it has happened from time to time. I'm not sure it's widespread though. Leaving bags of dead pheasants at the side of a road clearly shows someone with not much in the way of brain power I would suggest. Assuming they weren't planted there.
If this was widespread, we'd be seeing a lot more publicity and pictures though. And we aren't.
If this was widespread, we'd be seeing a lot more publicity and pictures though. And we aren't.
Rake Aboot
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enfieldspares
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Feathered clay pigeons. It is absolutely disgraceful.
They're poaching them because they wanted to kill them. In this case, there is no information about the state of the birds....they may well have been inedible.
What about all the hundreds of tons of rubbish fly tipped on farms?
50 pheasants V 24ton of waste?
As said above its more effort for a shoot to do this than to dump them out of the bags and out of sight. Another possibility is that they have been collected via one of the Facebook free game pages by somebody with an agenda or simply gone smelly as not prepared / looked after in time.
Craigsaun
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I think you may be missing my point, it’s not about the fly tipping, to me it’s about wasting good food, but I do understand your point as a farmer who has his fair share of rubbish thrown on my land
I get your point, however tons of "good" food gets dumped each and every single day in this country from super markets, bi catch gets dumped over the side from trawling. On a big day on the stubble with pigeons a good number of the early ones will be fly blown so go to waste. My God father had a bakery and the old bread used to be given away for those who wanted it.
An old one but still shows the economics of pheasant shooting.
“Up goes a guinea, bang goes sixpence. Down comes half a crown.”
Sorry, but I don't trust 99% of the stuff posted on social media of this type. Its a bit like the Swan Post from probably a far right channel shared elsewhere on here. All created to induce hatred of others, be them immigrants or game shooters.
Like it or not, on social media we are all the same to some people depending on their goal.
Like it or not, on social media we are all the same to some people depending on their goal.
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enfieldspares
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What's interesting is that although this video was shot some many years ago that all, bar Charlton, seem to be using O/U guns. So I am guessing and from their accents that these are "continentals" come in from the Netherlands?
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