Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#21
Kath, I was thinking of the rabbit and pigeon shoots that used to happen when we were in the village rather than the big organised Winter game shoots.
Journalist license perhaps making the proverbial mountain out of a molehill.
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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#22
Strange but true. When you live in the countryside people shoot the wildlife, sometimes to eat, sometimes for "sport". Hereabouts, October shoots echo round the village, landrovers loaded with the hunters and their dogs are a part of the landscape and big money changes hands. All part of the rural economy.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#23
# 20.....out of proportion.......yes
# 21.....mountain out of a molehill....yes
# 22....spot on........
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
#24
Mountain out of a Molehill?
Time for a Headline competition...
"Unfrog-edible", "Unfrog-gettable"
These both suffer from the fact that the pigeons are both 'gettable' and eaten. Ah!...
"Coo-coo to chew!"
[Back to the coffee pot, perhaps?]
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#25
hardly sport Lesley the others I can have a little sympathy with
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Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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#26
Shooting wood pigeons on agricultural land is regarded as pest control and allowed under a general licence from DEFRA - they just happen to be tasty too!
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#27
Keith Sansum1 wrote:hardly sport Lesley the others I can have a little sympathy with
What is abhorrent to some is a rural sport to others, at least their sport provides them with food and as Ray says pigeon is very tasty as is rabbit, pheasant, partridge and duck.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#28
If it were for food jan I would have a little more sympathy, but some so called sports are not for food
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#29
kieth,if people shoot pigeons like jan and Lesley say,its for food and not wasted like you think it is.blinking townies.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#30
Oh yes, Jan, there are a 'few' people shoot for rabbits etc. and there is a gun club here. I am sure many use what they bag, for food for themselves or their animals.
Pigeon pie can be quite tasty!
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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#31
Keith Sansum1 wrote:If it were for food jan I would have a little more sympathy, but some so called sports are not for food
Keith, I can't remember where this vaguely remembered quote came from, but I'm sure you'll disagree
"The only true sports are those where a quarry is pursued - hunting, shooting, fishing and courting, everything else is a game."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#32
Ray
me argue with you??? perish the thought
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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#33
If you look at my post again you will see the word sport is in inverted commas.
