The Chill Out Zone...

[doug boardley]

Any of you guys on here NOT into shooting at all? Just for interest... I can see and respect different viewpoints about it, but am puzzled at the lack of comments from those who are not into all this... in my mind nature herself usually does a good job at keeping things in balance and it's human interference that has made a mess, in general? I can totally accept that were I a farmer I might have got used to a different mindset, so this is genuine curiosity....

I don't shoot Gisela, but I hunt with ferrets and a fishing rod, what I do I don't see anything inhumane in it at all. What I catch we eat.

 

[DHTiling]

Doug, would you say fishing is cruel, after all that hook has gotta hurt those fish..

 

[doug boardley]

There's quite a lot of debate as to wether a ish can feel pain or not Dave, but tbh, it's a meal to me so I'm not gonna beat myself up over it

 

[DHTiling]

Exactly, Doug..

Sandy and Gisela... Are you both meat eaters.??

 

[diamondtiling]

All those vids are of perfect head shots. How many other rabbits escaped down burrows with fatal injuries because the shot was an inch off. You can't efficiently shoot rabbits with a pop gun and pellets.

A pop gun? are you serious? read some reviews on the weihrauch 95 and then tell me its a pop gun, its deadly accurate in the right hands and very powerful. Considerate hunters have a knowledge of the countryside and are usually very careful when shooting.

 

[user123]

Yes, Dave, after 15 years vegetarianism I do eat meat and feel better for it, emotionally somewhat reluctantly though, and I choose meat from local Yorkshire farms, try to avoid battery chickens etc, I don't eat lamb (I'm an Aries, would feel like cannibalism..:lol: ) and not really beef either apart from the very steak, once a year or so, just some free range chicken and free range pork, too, there are farms here who I feel comfortable with how they deal with things.

I don't mind the idea of people fishing or shooting for food, as it's more honest than going to the supermarket, and if there are URGENT issues about diseases I know nothing of, again, I respect that these are choices people make. I do not agree, AT ALL, though, with shooting creatures for sport or fun, and as Sandy says, how many are injured and die a miserable death as a result? I could neither eat nor shoot a rabbit either, my nature is so opposed to that - all mammals have very similar body systems, how could I have spent years trying to heal people and then feel flippant about animal life? It makes no sense to me whatsoever.

 

[DHTiling]

'Anti-Rat Campaign' by Airgun Hunter UK.


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Leave his chickens alone..:lol:

 

[SandyFloor]

Are you an Airgunner..?

Not any more but I had my own from when I was 14 years old and was using them long before. It was a BSA Airsporter with a modified (illegal) spring. My father had me practice shooting matches and then the object moved onto shooting the heads off matches at lenghtening ranges so I reckon I was a pretty good shot. I wasn't allowed to shoot rabbits with it although I did and I couldn't have guaranteed a shot to demobilise a rabbit and a few did escape.

As soon as I was old enough I had a Remington .22 pump action rifle for rabbits and always used hollow points.I bought my first 12 bore about the same time ( AYA Yeoman ) and had a couple after that ( capable of taking Magnum cartridges) mainly for pigeons and geese.

I gave them up a long time ago but my brother went onto larger calibre rifles for deer but he's long given them up too.

 

[DHTiling]

Yes, Dave, after 15 years vegetarianism I do eat meat and feel better for it, emotionally somewhat reluctantly though, and I choose meat from local Yorkshire farms, try to avoid battery chickens etc, I don't eat lamb (I'm an Aries, would feel like cannibalism..:lol: ) and not really beef either apart from the very steak, once a year or so, just some free range chicken and free range pork, too, there are farms here who I feel comfortable with how they deal with things.

I don't mind the idea of people fishing or shooting for food, as it's more honest than going to the supermarket, and if there are URGENT issues about diseases I know nothing of, again, I respect that these are choices people make. I do not agree, AT ALL, though, with shooting creatures for sport or fun, and as Sandy says, how many are injured and die a miserable death as a result? I could neither eat nor shoot a rabbit either, my nature is so opposed to that - all mammals have very similar body systems, how could I have spent years trying to heal people and then feel flippant about animal life? It makes no sense to me whatsoever.

So the beef or pork etc you eat,, how do you know it is killed quickly..🙂.. have you ever been in a slaughter house.. i have and it is not pretty..

I have been an Airgunner 28 yrs and always shoot humanely.. i appreciate input/remarks what ever but members are allowed to post in general chat subjects/hobbies that they do etc without other members bombarding them with their views and making then kinda feel guilty for even posting the thread.

If you feel strongly about such issues then start a thread about the for's and against's and not thread robbing.. 🙂🙂

 

[DHTiling]

Not any more but I had my own from when I was 14 years old and was using them long before. It was a BSA Airsporter with a modified (illegal) spring. My father had me practice shooting matches and then the object moved onto shooting the heads off matches at lenghtening ranges so I reckon I was a pretty good shot. I wasn't allowed to shoot rabbits with it although I did and I couldn't have guaranteed a shot to demobilise a rabbit and a few did escape.

As soon as I was old enough I had a Remington .22 pump action rifle for rabbits and always used hollow points.I bought my first 12 bore about the same time ( AYA Yeoman ) and had a couple after that ( capable of taking Magnum cartridges) mainly for pigeons and geese.

I gave them up a long time ago but my brother went onto larger calibre rifles for deer but he's long given them up too.

Good to hear and so you appreciate another mans hobby and the right to do it cleanly etc..

Again as above if you feel it is wrong then start a thread about it please..