I wouldnt mind leashing off a volley or two but at the local pigeons ....
I agree that hunting of any kind is not good animal preservation. In the case of grouse though its very different in that they are heavily man managed, re-stocked and so on, and bread simply to be shot, as though on a fast forward conveyor belt to an early grave. It is rather an odd practice when you think about it but it is as it has always been.Similarties abound with fox hunting in that its rather a flat cap corduroy death by amusement thing...as Marek has said above.
These practices seem at odds with the highly sensitive 21st century.
