Passion for shooting fading!!!

[Lab 10,979]

Well over the last few weeks ive been watching 3 Roe dot about outside my house in my adjoining fields and every time i see them(everyday) i say to myself "I'll need to shoot one of them for the freezer!". Yet day after day i dont do it. Now i'm beginning to come to the conclusion that its because i dont want too, i like seeing them there and worse i think my passion for shooting is slipping away.

When i was a youngster (12) i would stare out the same window and point at the rabbits at the bottom of the field and say "Grandad, plenty rabbits doon there the night"......his reply was always the same.."Well get the gun and go shoot the buggers!!". So off i'd go into the gun cabinet, grab the .22 and a box of bullets and away i'd go on the stalk. Away for an hour or 2, no license.....no worries. Come back with 2/3 rabbits, cleaned and ready for the freezer or the dogs. I loved it!!.

Then as i hit 14 i'd say the .22 began to get boring and i wanted to use the shotgun more and more.....my Grandad was a great shot and i wanted people to speak about me like they spoke about him....( never happened. )....i'd go out and stand for ages shooting pigeons, me and one of the dogs at the time......even getting up at 5 to go stand under the big beeches to shoot crows that were coming into the eggs at laying time.

Well now the guns are never out the cupboard.......at the end of the season i'm not interested in shooting pheasants....its more about the day out and the wee bevvy, i very rarely shoot pigeons now cause the numbers are so low here you seem to never fire the gun.

So i'm putting it done to my passion changing to my dogs and working them rather than being the man behind the trigger.........I might never be a good a shot as my Grandad was but i reckon i've beat him in the dog stakes......oh yes!!..

[stewie 3,387]

looks like someone needs a lurcher in their life..... and i DONT mean lurcher1..............

[Ideation 8,216]

Its a simple fact of life mate, being out with a dog, is a whole lot more enjoyable, than being out with a gun.

[socks 32,253]

Well if your leaning more into the dogs you best get some that can fill a pot without the help of a gun .... Bye bye labs hello running dogs ............

[Lab 10,979]

looks like someone needs a lurcher in their life..... and i DONT mean lurcher1..............

I dont think i've hidden the fact that i'd love one mate but i dont have the ground and it just wouldn't be right for the dog.

[fitchet 788]

looks like someone needs a lurcher in their life..... and i DONT mean lurcher1..............

 

Agree with you mate i started off shooting pigeons and rabbits. I did get abit bored and got myself a lurcher. Opened up a whole new world of fun. ATB

[paulf 820]

Just go to the dales everyone else is :D

[Lab 10,979]

Well if your leaning more into the dogs you best get some that can fill a pot without the help of a gun .... Bye bye labs hello running dogs ............

Not for me. As much as i love watching the chase on any type of game i wont be changing. I can get the same buzz when my dogs return from a long hard retrieve that looked lost....

[paulus 26]

over the years ive shot less and less and to be fair get very little enjoyment out of it anymore but my passion is still there with the lurchers even though i do shoot over them i still preffer just to watch them work.

[stewie 3,387]

looks like someone needs a lurcher in their life..... and i DONT mean lurcher1..............

I dont think i've hidden the fact that i'd love one mate but i dont have the ground and it just wouldn't be right for the dog.

i can see the story now mate.................

 

"Well over the last few weeks ive been watching 3 Roe dot about outside my house in my adjoining fields and every time i see them(everyday) i say to myself "I'll need to shoot one of them for the freezer!". Yet day after day i dont do it. Now i'm beginning to come to the conclusion that its because i dont want too, i like seeing them there and worse i think my passion for shooting is slipping away. So brought a lurcher, bagged a double (pre-ban) and never looked back since"..................

[scothunter 12,609]

You get mellow in your old age mate. Start to things a wee but differently. Don't worry I'm sure your not going to become one of the unwashed bud lol

[albert64 1,882]

i think its an age thing lab, when your young your always wanting to prove yourself

i've been hunting 40 yrs this year even as a kid we used to ferret the tip,the railway banks for rats

then over the years i was out at least 3/4 times always with a ferret in a bag, lamping, ferreting at night

but now alot of the time i take what i need and get alot of enjoyment watching a dog work

[tegater 789]

Ant9x has hacked into labs account

[The Seeker 3,048]

Lab take up wildfowling

 

To sum it up you get up at daft o'clock even the dog looks at you if your mad, drive to the foreshore wade out into the mud up to your arse and bury yourself in a creek to absolutely freeze your boll*cks off whilst waiting for dawn to break. When it does the geese are the height of a tall sky scraper so you don't end up shooting any of the f*ckers anyway. Return to the car strip off all the mud encrusted waders clothing etc and try to open the car doors without feelings in your fingers.

 

Off for a full English (or in your case Scottish) swear that the last f*ckin time your doin that and then a few weeks later do it all over again.

 

P.S. on the odd occasion you DO bag a mallard or pink foot it's the nicest meal you have ever eaten......ATB

[Lab 10,979]

Lab take up wildfowling

 

To sum it up you get up at daft o'clock even the dog looks at you if your mad, drive to the foreshore wade out into the mud up to your arse and bury yourself in a creek to absolutely freeze your boll*cks off whilst waiting for dawn to break. When it does the geese are the height of a tall sky scraper so you don't end up shooting any of the f*ckers anyway. Return to the car strip off all the mud encrusted waders clothing etc and try to open the car doors without feelings in your fingers.

 

Off for a full English (or in your case Scottish) swear that the last f*ckin time your doin that and then a few weeks later do it all over again.

 

P.S. on the odd occasion you DO bag a mallard or pink foot it's the nicest meal you have ever eaten......ATB

I've enjoyed that a few times....not on the foreshore i may add. Usually tucked in behind a dyke or a haybale waiting for them to come off Loch Leven. Enjoyed it at the time, glad i've done it but it would be at the bottom of my list of shooting. I reckon i've had a go at most things but i quite fancy shooting a Wild Boar.....its on the bucket list....