Intro

[Trodat]

I won't bore you all with to much info...

I live in North Wales and have had a keen interest in hunting for many years (although I've never actually hunted). Me and a friend are now keen to take that interest further and become active (if possible). Mainly here to get information/advice and to begin to make connections so we can start to dip our toe into this world. I have extensive experience in weapons (military) but none when it comes to hunting so welcome guidance/advice on this also.

One of the main motives if truth be told is to try (again is possible) is to obtain my meat ethically as I feel as a country we make this very difficult compared to many other countries (just my opinion).

Thanks,
Steve

 

[VSS]

Croeso / welcome. Also from North Wales.

 

[User00043]

Welcome from Rutland

Paul

 

[NB568]

Evening,

don't be embarrassed by the ethical food aim, I'm the same. Whether it's pigeon, duck, goose, venison, rabbit or hare. It comes from 5 miles away from my house and has to be better than anything brought in by a truck, wrapped in plastic. Just keep telling the kids its chicken curry. Honest kids it is.

neilB

 

[Fosbery Holster]

Welcome from North Yorkshire.

 

[VSS]

Just keep telling the kids its chicken curry. Honest kids it is.

neilB

NO! NO! NO! There is nothing to be gained by lying to your children about where their food comes from! That's a stupidly short-sighted attitude!
Better to get the kids out there, get them stuck in helping with carcass prep, and really learning about where food comes from. They are never too young to start helping out in small ways, like pulling feathers off a pigeon for dinner or investigating the innards of a rabbit. Real life biology lessons! I recall some photos being published in a popular magazine of one of my daughters, at six years old, gutting a sheep. It was the most perfectly natural behaviour in the world!
Kids are naturally inquisitive about these things, and if you shield them from reality then they'll simply succumb to other influences instead. (And they'll never know, or care, where their food comes from.)