Shooting - does it get in the way of your hunting??

[Starbucks]

10 years ago we had 2 shoots in our country - now there are 28!!! 28 FFS!! It's got to the point where we can only hunt a lot of our country and best meets on a Wednesday, which for someone who mainly hunts on a Saturday - is bloody pants!!!

I know we have to be supportive of other field sports - but why do shooters always get priority over hunting?? We were there first!!

Views, anyone?

 

[hotellie]

the land owners often take part in the shoots and so would prefer to shoot than just watch the hunt gallop across their land...it happens in our hunt as well!

 

[Ravenwood]

We are also surrounded in shoots - I work my dogs on the shoot and hunt, so I support both - but I know what you are saying. The trouble here is that it is so heavily keepered that all foxes are shot and there are non left for the hunts (of course that shouldn't be an issue anymore and must please the antis!) The worst is that there are a lot of hunt liveries in the area and unfortunately they have to time their excising around the shooting following an horrendous accident involving beaters frightening a string or horses who all bolted into the centre of the village.

Its very hard for the two to work together amicably, but so it must to save our countryside and rural life.

 

[wrighty]

"must please the antis!"
Foxes are still being killed by humans so I guess most anti's are not happy at all.

 

[LizzieJ]

The landowners make a lot more money out of shooting than hunting. If you do come down to us the shooting won't be too much problem, the lack of good jumping country might be though!

 

[soggy]

I know we have to be supportive of other field sports - but why do shooters always get priority over hunting?? We were there first!!

We are there by invitation. The shooters are there because they have paid for the rights.

He who pays the fiddler calls the tune!

Who was there first has no baring on the situation.

 

[severnmiles]

"must please the antis!"
Foxes are still being killed by humans so I guess most anti's are not happy at all.

Well you won't ever be happy because foxes will ALWAYS be killed by humans, whether by gun, by road, by snaring or by other means.

 

[RunToEarth]

I do love shooting, I think its very very different to the things I get from hunting, but I enjoy shooting- its a shame when it gets in the way of hunting but we are meant to be on the same side.
What is really a bugger is when our huntsman puts meets back to 12pm&1pm so he can get a morning's shooting in :smirk: no fair Mr Tue.

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

Doesn't seem to be a problem near me.

Sadly, there will be no meets in my village this year and the new landowner next to our land hasn't given shooting rights to anyone but himself (and I've never heard a shot from him).

So this means more late nights up the field with the gun...

On the flip side, none of our horses are gun shy, being quite used to clay pigeon and vermin control day and night!

 

[tkmaxx]

Perhaps the problem is less to do with animal welfare and more to do with making money? Game shooting is a much better investment than letting the hunt pass through, especially as the latter often costs more money than it makes through fence breakages.
Of course, to make the antis happy, the foxes would be the ones riding horses and the pheasants the ones holding guns - and when there's a £20 entry fee to Labour's great themepark - the Countryside!

 

[Reginald]

Gentle warning: try to avoid shooting while in the saddle. The injuns make it look easy but it's really not, trust me!

 

[tinker88]

seems shooting has got in the way this weekend too!!