...you when after rabbits, pheasants &etc? thanks, capt david
Or rough shooting.That would generally be "shooting".
Or missing . Oh that could just be me!!
That would generally be "shooting".
Or missing . Oh that could just be me!!
Majority rules, "hunting" is used world wide to describe in one word the different shooting, snaring, trapping or whatever methods of baging animals.
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A few years ago I met a bloke who was at least 65yrs, he told me he had been stalking all his life and that he had never missed a deer. I ask him what he was taking for his senile dementia. Anyone brave enough to start up a honest miss/loss thread?
The term "hunting" is properly limited to the pursuit of game, usually foxes or deer with a pack of hounds that hunt primarily by scent. This is not exclusive to packs of hounds with the followers mounted on horse back. Many packs of hounds are hunted by people on foot.
Tamus, deer hunting with hounds (and fox hunting for that matter) is still legal in NI. There are I think two packs here in Co Down. What is law in England and Wales is not automatically so here, even before devolution.
There was a bit of a barney here last season when the RSCPA and the polis stopped a 4x4 and trailer with a stag in the back. The implication was that the stag was being "carted" to be released for the hunt. That was 5 miles form here last season.
There is a long tradition in Europe generally of using specific words to describe different types of sport. Even the word "sport" itself is properly limited to the pursuit of game or fish by whatever method, and maybe horse racing. Activities such as football or tennis or golf are "games" not sport.
In the UK and Ireland the traditional meanings of various words are quite clear to all of us who practise these sports.
The term "hunting" is properly limited to the pursuit of game, usually foxes or deer with a pack of hounds that hunt primarily by scent. This is not exclusive to packs of hounds with the followers mounted on horse back. Many packs of hounds are hunted by people on foot.
Pursuit of game - (normally hares), with a single (or pair) of greyhounds or lurchers (which hunt by sight not scent) is correctly called "coursing".
The pursuit of any winged or small ground game with a shotgun is called "shooting". End of. Shooting can be driven, walked up, rough or whatever, but it will never be refered to as hunting in these islands.
The taking of deer with a rifled weapon firing a single projectile is "stalking", even if conducted from a high seat rather than on foot.
All of us who practise these sports know the correct teminology. I have never heard anyone here refer to any sport conducted with a shotgun or rifle as "hunting".