Would You Say Long Netting Is A Sport?

[potpoacher 27]

I have just brought a longnet and want to use it at night but my mum is saying that it is a cruel sport and not pest control.

what would you say? is it a sport (im not worried about the cruel bit as its stupid) or is it pest control?

[riohog 5,729]

definatly not very cruel should be banned, along with didly winks and snakes and ladders :laugh:

[socks 32,253]

Its a country pursuit ..... Definition of a sport .....

 

1.

an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

[RubyTex 1,957]

Surely your mum must think all hunting/pest control etc is cruel then?

[potpoacher 27]

thanks! that's what I tried to get across!

no she doesn't think that its all cruel, its the sport side that she doesn't like i.e. pheasant shooting.

when she was a kid she shot a bird of 'some description' with a borrowed air rifle so she must have a bloodthirsty streak in her!!!

she let me get an air rifle so she must understand that I have to use it.

[Joonsy 38]

out of all the methods of catching rabbits longnetting is the most humane, any rabbits that escape the net (and some do) are completely unharmed, those that get caught are dispatched quickly and efficiently, with longnetting there are NO rabbits left injured whatsoever and NO rabbits that die a lingering death, no other method of rabbit catching can claim that. in fact i have sometimes found pellets from shotguns and air rifles lodged beneath the skin of rabbits i have caught in longnets, proof indeed that the rabbit escaped injured from the shooter but not my long net.

[ferretfatcamp 21]

Great for ferreting as well and letterman gassing and leaving the rabbits