check this out i nearly wet my pants with laughter

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[LOGUNSOLO177 0]

Hahahahaha thats crazy!! :blink:

[ChrisJones 7,975]

 

That story has really brightened up my day! Thanks RK!

 

I'll be honest here. Moderating is a thankless task. You can never please everyone. You always do something to someone's benefit only to be slated by someone else... In a way I can kinda feel for the position some of these people are put in... However...

 

That is just crazy!

 

Airguns are tools to do a job. Period. As much as the target shooters like to distance themselves, from the hunters, the air gun was developed for use on the battlefield. If it wasn't for it's proven accuracy they wouldn't target shoot with them!

 

Being almost silent it was the tool of the assassin. No muzzle flash, and no burnt powder, meant that there was nothing to give away the position of the shooter. With modern ballistic improvements they're now, mainly, the tool of the hunter and the pest controller. These things weren't invented to punch paper. There's nothing wrong with punching paper but there is equally nothing wrong with controlling live quarry either. Neither are the stories or the pictures.

 

That site has it's policies on it's content. Same as we do. They obviously think that screen names are a big deal. I wish I could log in, here, and say the same!

 

I'd just like to say it's been a pleasure having you on here, RK. I've always enjoyed reading your hunting stories and looking at your hunting pictures. Long may it continue! You'll always be welcome here and as long as you keep posting I'll keep reading!

 

Yours In Hunting

 

Chris.

[johnbaz 363]

you think that's bad, have look on youtube for rat hunting, it's amazing how many people think you shouldn't shoot rats , if i had my way, i'd capture that rats live and let them live with the antis :clapper:

 

 

john

[cometa300s 20]

haha :11:

[ChrisJones 7,975]

you think that's bad, have look on youtube for rat hunting, it's amazing how many people think you shouldn't shoot rats , if i had my way, i'd capture that rats live and let them live with the antis :clapper:

 

 

john

Sad isn't it.

 

Not sure how many people know this but the Black Rat (Rattus rattus) is on the decline in the UK, some groups class it as threatened. It's population is now restricted to coastal/port areas mainly due to better control methods, better hygiene around ships and docks, and the more adaptable and aggressive Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus).

 

Back to the topic, there is an anti group in the UK that actually want to see this animal protected!

 

Clearly bubonic plague is just a fairy tale for some.

[PeakOil 352]

you think that's bad, have look on youtube for rat hunting, it's amazing how many people think you shouldn't shoot rats , if i had my way, i'd capture that rats live and let them live with the antis :clapper:

 

 

john

Sad isn't it.

 

Not sure how many people know this but the Black Rat (Rattus rattus) is on the decline in the UK, some groups class it as threatened. It's population is now restricted to coastal/port areas mainly due to better control methods, better hygiene around ships and docks, and the more adaptable and aggressive Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus).

 

Back to the topic, there is an anti group in the UK that actually want to see this animal protected!

 

Clearly bubonic plague is just a fairy tale for some.

 

I wonder how many rats, coneys, foxes, pheasants, squizzers and deer get killed by vehicles in the UK every year They will be protesting to ban vehicles next I wonder how many antis have killed vermin with thier vehicles

[ChrisJones 7,975]

I wonder how many rats, coneys, foxes, pheasants, squizzers and deer get killed by vehicles in the UK every year They will be protesting to ban vehicles next I wonder how many antis have killed vermin with thier vehicles

The environmentalists wet dream is the total ban on 4x4's. How far is the next step to cars?

 

To further your point, on antis killing vermin. All of them have blood on their hands to some degree. The Food Safety Act 1990 outlines what is required of food producers, handlers, distributors and retailers, to ensure that what they're doing will not endanger the public. They have to take steps to make sure that food can not be spoiled or contaminated. For their protection the food producers, handlers, distributors, etc have a defence called "Due Diligence" meaning that they can demonstrate they've done everything they possibly can to protect the consumer. Pest Control forms part of this defence.

 

This means that whether you're the most rabid carnivore down to the most militant vegan. If you buy your food from anywhere you're paying blood money to a pest controller, or pest control company. You can't avoid it. It's a legal requirement and Marks & Spencers, right down to Mrs Miggin's Pie Shop, are bound by the 1990 Act. Even organic producers practice pest control, although it doesn't involve pesticides. Ferreting is arguably the most eco-friendly form of pest control their is.

 

So unless these critics are growing their own food and not using any form of control, then they're in with us in varying degrees. Blood is on their hands!

[P.Carter 0]

I wonder how many rats, coneys, foxes, pheasants, squizzers and deer get killed by vehicles in the UK every year They will be protesting to ban vehicles next I wonder how many antis have killed vermin with thier vehicles

The environmentalists wet dream is the total ban on 4x4's. How far is the next step to cars?

 

To further your point, on antis killing vermin. All of them have blood on their hands to some degree. The Food Safety Act 1990 outlines what is required of food producers, handlers, distributors and retailers, to ensure that what they're doing will not endanger the public. They have to take steps to make sure that food can not be spoiled or contaminated. For their protection the food producers, handlers, distributors, etc have a defence called "Due Diligence" meaning that they can demonstrate they've done everything they possibly can to protect the consumer. Pest Control forms part of this defence.

 

This means that whether you're the most rabid carnivore down to the most militant vegan. If you buy your food from anywhere you're paying blood money to a pest controller, or pest control company. You can't avoid it. It's a legal requirement and Marks & Spencers, right down to Mrs Miggin's Pie Shop, are bound by the 1990 Act. Even organic producers practice pest control, although it doesn't involve pesticides. Ferreting is arguably the most eco-friendly form of pest control their is.

 

So unless these critics are growing their own food and not using any form of control, then they're in with us in varying degrees. Blood is on their hands!

 

 

There are many other things to back up the need for controlling pests, after all anything that isn't a requirement in this country is illegal IMO, so it must be needed, or it would be illegal.

However, the die hard ANTI's will always come up with something, I posted a similar reply on a Youtube video, not trying to justify it, but trying to argue the need for vermin/pest control, and the reply I got was "No matter how you try and justify it, it is still cruel", that wasn't the exact reply mind, the spelling was all to cock, I got abuse of some kind calling me in-bred because I like to cause 'Suffering to animals', this isn't just a bad example representing the ANTI's either, because most of the replies I get are similar..

It just goes to show that they have nothing to back up what they are doing and are un-educated in the very thing they are campaigning against.

 

It's because of the do-gooders such as them, or partly because of them, that this country has been made a laughing stock IMO.

Edited August 23, 2008 by P.Carter

[PeakOil 352]

I wonder how many rats, coneys, foxes, pheasants, squizzers and deer get killed by vehicles in the UK every year They will be protesting to ban vehicles next I wonder how many antis have killed vermin with thier vehicles

The environmentalists wet dream is the total ban on 4x4's. How far is the next step to cars?

 

To further your point, on antis killing vermin. All of them have blood on their hands to some degree. The Food Safety Act 1990 outlines what is required of food producers, handlers, distributors and retailers, to ensure that what they're doing will not endanger the public. They have to take steps to make sure that food can not be spoiled or contaminated. For their protection the food producers, handlers, distributors, etc have a defence called "Due Diligence" meaning that they can demonstrate they've done everything they possibly can to protect the consumer. Pest Control forms part of this defence.

 

This means that whether you're the most rabid carnivore down to the most militant vegan. If you buy your food from anywhere you're paying blood money to a pest controller, or pest control company. You can't avoid it. It's a legal requirement and Marks & Spencers, right down to Mrs Miggin's Pie Shop, are bound by the 1990 Act. Even organic producers practice pest control, although it doesn't involve pesticides. Ferreting is arguably the most eco-friendly form of pest control their is.

 

So unless these critics are growing their own food and not using any form of control, then they're in with us in varying degrees. Blood is on their hands!

 

I would like to know how we in the UK are supposed to grow our own food and not be so reliant on food grown across the globe and shipped / flown / driven to us without controlling pest numbers. Even if we all became veggies overnight we would still need to control vermin or we would have sweet fa veggies to eat. So if we are shooting coneys, tree rats pigeons etc to protect our precious veggie crops, we may as well eat them so they are not wasted. A free source of organic protein with no carbon footprint that has lived a free life in the wild, should be a tree huggers ideal meal really

[ChrisJones 7,975]

I would like to know how we in the UK are supposed to grow our own food and not be so reliant on food grown across the globe and shipped / flown / driven to us without controlling pest numbers. Even if we all became veggies overnight we would still need to control vermin or we would have sweet fa veggies to eat. So if we are shooting coneys, tree rats pigeons etc to protect our precious veggie crops, we may as well eat them so they are not wasted. A free source of organic protein with no carbon footprint that has lived a free life in the wild, should be a tree huggers ideal meal really

We can't. Simple as that. All these do gooders, that talk such shite, offer no answer or go as far as saying that humans need a round of mass starvation to cull the numbers. However they're usually the last to volunteer for such.

 

Pest control is a fact of life. It's about competition for food. We protect our food yield by culling the number of animals that will take this food from us. It's been in existence since the beginning of modern agriculture and has cemented our position at the top of the food chain. Even if we ate nothing but vegetables we would still need to stop those that will eat the vegetables before we can eat them.

 

Their argument always comes back to emotional. I.e cruelty. They don't have a logical argument. Never had and probably never will.

[Portland_Jon 0]

Hey look Airgun BBS I like guns and I use them for shooting small furry and feathered things, legally of course. I like wearing my camo gear and getting out in the wilds with my gun. Isn't that what air gunning is all about? They'll be banning use of the phrase Hunter Field Target next.

 

Jon

Edited August 23, 2008 by Portland_Jon

[johnbaz 363]

Hey look Airgun BBS I like guns and I use them for shooting small furry and feathered things, legally of course. I like wearing my camo gear and getting out in the wilds with my gun. Isn't that what air gunning is all about? They'll be banning use of the phrase Hunter Field Target next.

 

Jon

 

 

oooh jon- you're such a nasty piece of work :clapper:

 

 

john

[Edgar 1]

Ha ha ha, I used to keep some "rabbit reducers," in a cage in the shed. I saw the rat shooting video on you tube, well done great shooting.

[Malt 379]

Back to the original thread.... It gets worse & worse! (well not really, I find it quite comical really! )

 

What will they think of next? Pressing for a 6 ft/lbs air rifle limit, so that people can't shoot vermin? It should be called 'Paper punching BBS' or something stupid.

 

I wonder how long it will be before the next influx of banned/disenchanted members migrate here from there? It will only be a good thing, as this section has come alive over the last 6 months or so. When I first joined over a year ago, topics would often stay on the front page without moving for a few days at a time.