Snifferboy 659 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 As title suggests, I have been just watched these 2 videos on youtube in succession and I really cannot get my head around the mentality of the people that put these documentaries together. To start with they are on about hare populations being down and that Coursing having a major part to play in that, then obviously broaching into organised gangs and crime etc. goes with out saying when there isn't enough of a story to broadcast. But after watching this then watching a hare shoot on the shooting show and seeing the numbers that are being shot where do these people do their research? How can they compare the amount of hares being coursed and killed to the ones being shot? Why the f@ck doesn't somebody actually put the 2 together and show the general public what the actual numbers of hares being shot to the ones being coursed are and have that on a Countryfile episode. Now, I like my shooting though I have never shot a hare, I like my Lurchers a lot but I certainly haven't got a coursing dog, I can see that, where there is no permission and people are getting hurt, threatened etc. then there is a serious problem, but I can't see that when things are done properly and permission granted etc. why there can't be legal coursing for people to enjoy, especially as it is naturally selective to a point... Sorry for starting a post which has probably been done to death, I'm just a little startled… It would also be good to see what some of the shooters have got to say regarding this topic, as I'm sure that there must be a good few that would enjoy watching a good hare coursed... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8uLSdSlVQ0 Quote Link to post
Ben Lilly 187 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 shower b*****ds shootin hares Quote Link to post
pip1968 2,490 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 ffs the waterloo cup never killed no where near that many hares in probably 4 or 5 years running than what they shoot in a day and they wonder why theirs a decline in the population 2 Quote Link to post
the big chief 3,099 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Notice he mentions criminal gangs alot f**k wit if the government didn't pass such a ridiculous law then there would be no criminal gangs hare coursing in effect the government has made them a criminal gang its f***ing stupid making out we hunters are something we are not simply because we love to hunt with dogs absolutely ridiculous 1 Quote Link to post
Ben Lilly 187 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 no sport in that crap Quote Link to post
bryson 562 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 I have never personally shot a hare but to be shooting that amount year after year it sows that there's a healthy population there I can't see that being the reason for there decline nor is coursing the reason either Quote Link to post
Sam H 80 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Shotgun shootings got to be the most inhumane fieldsport plenty of tackle gets seriously wounded and runs to die with that game, makes me sick how shootings got this legitimacy then dog lads are held up as cruel b*****ds! 4 Quote Link to post
jeppi26 1,855 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Not a fan on guns but shooting hares is the best thing for them Quote Link to post
shealy1 71 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Disgusting man a mass slaughtering of brown hares with shotguns all because theres big money involved where as a lad with a dog goes and runs 1 2 or even 3 hares to test his dog and sees what its made of and to see how all the hard work he put into the dog has paid but gets branded a criminal and a gangmember thats the reason this country is f****d seriously Quote Link to post
Snifferboy 659 Posted February 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Its pretty shit isn't it? What about the last shot that the main guy made… possibly the most unsporting shot I have seen… and took half of its f@cking head off What has gripped my shit the most is the guy on the shooting show is proud of that last shot and flaunts the hare to the camera. Some f@cker somewhere in parliament or where ever must see shit surely? Quote Link to post
Flacko 1,741 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Shooting standing hares and ones a couple of yards away, how is that sporting. Dogmen take all the shit and get all the stick for being criminals, what aload of Bolx Quote Link to post
dogmad riley 1,343 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Hare coursing = testing the hound and beast were the beast survives a lot of the time. Driven hare shoot = slaughter, massacre of a graceful beast Absolutely disgraceful. 3 Quote Link to post
jeppi26 1,855 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 As stated yesterday for therm to shoot that many year in year out there must be a fit healthy population and all there doing is controlling the numbers. And as I said not a gun person but things need controlling Quote Link to post
paulus 26 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 in order for hare drives to be viable on a shoot annually there has to be a healthy sustainable population, this population is managed, the thing you lads don't get is its all financial, the countryside is as much about money as the city of London is, to compare a man with a dog to an organised hare shoot is daft, yes the hunting act is a pile of crock but if hare coursing was legal you still wouldn't get a chance of getting at those hares legally as financially it wouldn't make sense to the estate owners, the hare is in decline in the areas where its not protected for commercial purposes and thats not down to the men with guns is it Quote Link to post
robs12 5 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 ide rather test a dog on one shooting is not a sport atleast when theres a dog behind one its got more of a chance of getting away. Quote Link to post
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