Your neck of the woods eh Jags.... :eeek:

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17 year old 'licenced gamekeepers' with air rifles?? slow agonising death for the bunny then
My daughter heard this on the news - is now it bits and wants mummy to 'go save the bunny' :shock: , and ya know what? I'm daft enough to do it too.
£100 for the Bunny, alive.
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Point taken DP, but, do ya wanna come explain that to my kid?
bloody news programmes
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Millions starving due to drought in Africa.....pensioners struggling to heat their homes due to energy price hikes and pitiful pensions.......... you get my drift ....
and making front page & 6 o'clock news is......... the WereRabbit ffs
17 year old 'licenced gamekeepers' with air rifles?? slow agonising death for the bunny then
My daughter heard this on the news - is now it bits and wants mummy to 'go save the bunny' :shock: , and ya know what? I'm daft enough to do it too.
£100 for the Bunny, alive.
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Having been a "vermin control type person"let me disseminate some real info here. A lot of you won’t like it, and it will not do my popularity a whole lot of good, but here it goes.
A rabbits brain is actually tiny, as is its scull. To actually get a “head shot†on a rabbit is not as easy as it sounds, because most of the “head†is made up of mouth and eyes,
There is a pinical reaction that for years every one thought was the indication of a clean “head shot†which was when you hear the slap of the round making contact, the rabbit leaps up to ten foot in the air, but is stone dead, apparently it’s a nervous reaction to the destruction of the brain.
Wrong. Apparently, new research has shown, and it is new, and unsubstantiated, that what in fact is happening is that the round has missed the brain, and cranium by mills, and has actually severed the optic nerves. It is the shock to the system that makes the rabbit leap into the air, then die of shock several minutes later.
Just a theory I know, but even so, makes the 17 yo “marksman†look a bit of a worry.
I only ever hunted rabbits with a .22 lr rifle, and even I had what is now termed “flyers†so maybe my shots where not as good as I thought.
I also did a huge amount of deer management, and yes, killed many many deer, and if anyone would like to know the reason why, I would be more than happy to chat to them. Why did I stop? (maybe this should be in the rant zone)
I’ll tell you why, because after the third time of being buzzed by the local copper chopper, then having some search lights shone in my eyes, being spread-eagled in the mud and physically searched ……………… whilst waving my firearms certificate, and my letter from the landowner stating that I am his deer manager, and explaining loudly who I was. I was still cuffed and taken to the station for the nite, no apology in the morning when my gun was returned, and not a feckin chance of getting a lift back to the car, which is several miles away, including a walk thru populated areas, with a rifle ……………………………….................................. All because? ……………………. All because some dozy City Dweller has decided to buy a ‘Home In The Country’ seen a chap walk past the bottom of her garden with a gun over his shoulder, AND CALLED THE FECKIN COPS :shock:
FFS, if these ppl want to live in the country, at least do a bit of research first. In the country, there are people with guns OK????
Watch me get fecked for this rant lol
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FFS, if these ppl want to live in the country, at least do a bit of research first. In the country, there are people with guns OK????
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I used to be in a shooting syndicate many years ago ( before my back problems and meeting the ex-wife ) and would only shoot an animal ( Rabbit , Pheasant , Goose , Duck , etc ) if I intended eating it. I owned at one time 2 12 bore shotguns and an 1887 side by side hammer action 410 ( antique shotgun that was made in Belgium ). Now I know there are a lot of people who think that shooting should be stopped and I will not say anything against them , we are all entitled to our opinions how ever much we may disagree with them.
I also used to do Vermin control for local farmers. Rabbits are vermin regardless of how "cute" they look. The tend to dig their burrows at the boundrys of fields and if that field happens to have cows or sheep in them then the farmer almost always looses animals to broken legs ( for those who don't know about farm animal behaviour cows and sheep have a habit of being spooked by just about anything really and they run generally around the boundry of the field which leads them to inevitably stick a holve(sp?) into a burrow at full speed leading to a broken leg that means the animal has to be put down ). When things got bad the farmer used to call me and a few of my mates out , he'd clear the affected fields of livestock and we'd net off all the burrows before sending in the ferrets. The rabbits bolt out into the nets where they were dispatched with a priest ( 14" wooden club with a brass weight on the end which meant instant painless death ). The rabbits were never discarded tho ( unless there was myxamatosis then they were inedible and we were really doing them a favour ) as we sold them to the local game dealer who sent them to France.
I know a lot of people will think that i'm some sort of monster or barbarian for doing what I did, thats your opinion, but I live in a rural area where the Rabbit population is in massive numbers so whatever we did didn't make a dent in the end to the numbers just bought the farmers a couple of months safe time for their livestock. A single cow lost by breaking its leg means a large loss of income for a farmer and with the way that industry is 2-3 losses over a year could finish some of the smaller farms.
Davie
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The Monster/Barbarian debate will rumble on for a while.
If you have been brought up in a City or Town, killing fluffy bunnies is barbaric because you buy your food prepacked in Tescos. It has no visible relationship to the animal - i.e. no tail or ears sticking out.
If you've been brought up on a Farm killing aninals is a way of life. You raise sheep, cattle, pigs, chickens etc. to be slaughtered. You kill vermin just as the town dweller kills vermin - cockroaches, rats etc.
Personally, I believe all prepacked meat should be banned and everyone should see how their meat is actually butchered from the carcass. The debate would be over in seconds.
The is sort debate is pointless because everyone who eats meat is eating a cute animal - live with it or become a vegetarian.
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I think there is one main type of vermin on this planet and it does not hop and have big floppy ears rather 2 legs walks upright and does as it pleases.
So you cant eat a Rabbit with myxamatosis, I have wondered that before. As a disease made by humans I always thought it would be kind of serves you right if it eneded up affecting man. Imagine how much you could sue for
Mr Tweeky
ohh BTW can we remove Bugs, nice old chap but too big and stretching the screen.
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I think there is one main type of vermin on this planet and it does not hop and have big floppy ears rather 2 legs walks upright and does as it pleases.
So you cant eat a Rabbit with myxamatosis, I have wondered that before. As a disease made by humans I always thought it would be kind of serves you right if it eneded up affecting man. Imagine how much you could sue for
Mr Tweeky
ohh BTW can we remove Bugs, nice old chap but too big and stretching the screen.