Should Hunt Monitors be armed?

[zigzagzig]

As I've stated to you recently, I don't agree with the Hunting Act. Therefore please provide a link to where I say I support "driving herds of deer onto guns", or show yourself to be a liar for a second time.

 

[Eagle_day]

"At least I am not an uptight humourless little ### "

But you are. In fact it's a close run thing who's the most uptight and humourless - you or eagle_day.

If this is a vote then its definately eagle_day! )

Yay!

I win!

 

[zigzagzig]

Yeah, I think on balance you probably do win. At least one can laugh at Giles's more ridiculous declarations, whereas you just sound as if you've got a hunting whip permanently lodged up your arse.

 

[Eagle_day]

Actually, I prefer my hunting whip closer to hand.

 

[wildduck]

Zig will support anything love if his mind wandered towards it.As for Lord Burns his recomendation is very enlightening in the fact that he prefered "shooting" of foxes to the "hound".I have never heard of a line of "guns" waiting for deer to be flushed and killing the lot.Talk like that and you make us the shooting people look like wildlife destruction people which we are not.The shooting fraternity in Britain has made the countryside what it is today BECAUSE of the places whereby hunting/shooting/fishing exist.The wildlife that you discuss here would be all gone by now, if it was not for the protection that the landowners give it, and encourage it to flourish.Why even the spin offs are helping,clay shoots,cartridge makers gunsmiths, all help the countryside survive.There would be no animals in the fields,birds in the sky,as we would have made them extinct many centuries ago if it was not for all of US... the "sportsman"and the money it generates.

 

[zigzagzig]

I find myself in an unusual position: I've just read an honest post from a hunter which makes a kind of sense.

 

[Hebegebe]

I think you are missing my point. I was referring to the ruling of tyhe court that enough guns must be placed to shoot all the deer flushed rather than just one.

I wasn't implying that anyone would be stupid enough to obey the law.

I'm not anti shooting indeed I shoot next door a couple of days a year.

 

[Herne]

Quote Wildduck: <<As for Lord Burns his recomendation is very enlightening in the fact that he prefered "shooting" of foxes to the "hound".>>

Not exactly.

What he said was (and I paraphrase) that lamping with rifles IF carried out correctly and under the right circumstances MAY have FEWER adverse welfare implications than hunting with hounds.

Note that the if clause and the may clause still only add up to *fewer* adverse welfare implications not none.

It is far from the ringing advocation of lamping that the anti-hunters try to make it out to be...

 

[Hebegebe]

What's uncertain is what he would have said if the scientific research undertaken by the MWG on wounding rates had been available.

Also in reality how much lamping is done in those circumstances?