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gingerlord Member Since: 21 Dec 2011 Location: Cheshire Posts: 222 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Almost certainly, he's a total idiot to be shooting like that. |
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stooby Member Since: 08 Feb 2011 Location: South Lanarkshire Posts: 320 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
..and is generally the case. A minority spoil it for the majority. |
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shiggsy Member Since: 13 Jan 2013 Location: Kent Posts: 800 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Seeing the attraction in what other people enjoy isn't easy, there are people who cut up animals for a living, or cut open people for a living, or bury people in the ground when they have died. If butchers, surgeons or funeral directors said they enjoyed their jobs, it sounds weird, but is it?
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The Doctor Member Since: 09 Jul 2010 Location: Gallifrey Posts: 4615 ![]() ![]() |
For future reference stooby, dial 112 instead of 999 and your phone will scan other networks for a signal as it's an emergency call. I would clas that as an emergency. Discharge of a firearm in a public place. Downright dangerous. LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
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npinks Member Since: 28 Jun 2007 Location: Ls25 Posts: 20092 ![]() ![]() |
a place were he (may) have had permission on, which so happens, like lots of others, to have a public footpath running along side it of through it, but people using it should have been noted
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stooby Member Since: 08 Feb 2011 Location: South Lanarkshire Posts: 320 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Shiggsy - I agree! I don't have a problem with killing to eat. If they stopped mass farming of animals we'd all be at it. The mass processing of animals is horrible! However, isn't shooting ducks, grouse, deer considered a sport by some?
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Thon Member Since: 13 Dec 2013 Location: Sunny Salisbury Plain Posts: 62 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
On the facts as you present them it was poor shooting irrespective of quarry or calibre. A suitable backstop is essential in every situation as you can never absolutely guarantee that you will hit what you are aiming for. You should never have been exposed to danger in that way. I think you absolutely should have reported the incident - if the land is regularly stalked or vermin controlled by the same person and they don't realise there's a right of way, it could happen again. If it was armed trespass it becomes even more serious...
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shiggsy Member Since: 13 Jan 2013 Location: Kent Posts: 800 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Yes game shooting is a sport, but what gets shot doesn't get thrown away, everything is eaten, it even ends up in supermarkets. The fact that it is a sport, which people pay to do, because they enjoy it, means the woods and ponds get preserved for this use instead of being seen as dead money by a landowner who can rip them out to earn money by growing crops, or building houses on thereby, preserving the countryside.
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npinks Member Since: 28 Jun 2007 Location: Ls25 Posts: 20092 ![]() ![]() |
don't feel like you have offended anyone, Stooby |
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archie98 Member Since: 18 Oct 2011 Location: derbyshire Posts: 709 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Hi Stooby I am glad it did not turn into a slanging match it's just that I like to hear other peoples point of view.I shoot game and pigeons crows etc for pest control for the farmers and also shoot a lot of rats now into a few thousand over the years. |
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stooby Member Since: 08 Feb 2011 Location: South Lanarkshire Posts: 320 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Cheers lads! |
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Steve D Member Since: 19 Jan 2013 Location: Essexshire Posts: 4109 ![]() ![]() |
Earlier this year as I was taking my dog for an early morning walk around the fields near me, someone had set up a hide on one side of a public footpath and in the fields (which had just been sown) he had about a dozen dummy wood pigeons and two mechanical things that had a dummy bird on them going round in circles making it look like the bird was flying. He was shooting across the footpath into the field. Another dog walker said they'd seen him there the week previous and when challenged, the shooter told him to |
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archie98 Member Since: 18 Oct 2011 Location: derbyshire Posts: 709 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
It is legal to shoot across a footpath but not a carridge way or high way but care must be taken for other users of the foot path the guy shooting who said |
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npinks Member Since: 28 Jun 2007 Location: Ls25 Posts: 20092 ![]() ![]() |
Hate shooters with attitudes like that, obviously people plus be telling one side of the story, but If I was approached about what I was doing civilly then same respect goes back, but some one with attitude would get a bit more curt response but not a |
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