Gameshooting.

Hello everyone,

I was interested to hear your views on gameshooting such as pheasant and partridge. We eat/sell (to be eaten in resturants/ sold in butchers etc) all that is shot, the countryside benefits hugely on the conservation work that is done by shooters/gamekeepers. It generates huge amounts of money for both the countryside and the government.

Just wondered on your views on this.

Its never something i've given a second thought to. I was brought up in the countryside, people do it, I don't - it doesn't bother me.

Hi Gamekeeper, My local gamekeeper 'deals' with the foxes. Certainly works for me and my poultry ! He also puts up an excellent fence at a good price when he isn't busy elsewhere.

Welcome to the forum.


Karen

I beat occasionally at my local shoot. but guns are not my kind of things more into dogs and falcons for hunting.

The village that I live in hotels advertised themselves as being located in the Golf, Shooting & Fishing heart of Scotland.
I quite often have pheasant and grouse wondering round the garden that escaped the fields the were released in for organised shoots. I do know how to shoot but don't enjoy killing, I much prefer shooting at targets, my hubby on the other hand until very recently went out shooting regularly every season. I do find shooting both as a recreational sport & a way of conservation preferable to hunting with dogs.

Must be fantastic to see some grouse in the garden Suz. Red Grouse are unique to the British Isles, did you know?


Oh and by the way my CPQ are set to hatch tommorow, im very anxious!

Good luck with your hatch Gamekeeper. If you have any questions or just want some reassurance just post, someone will be on hand top help put mind at rest.

Suz

mine are due tomorrow too

never been hunting myself but it's something I would quite like to try. I don't agree with killing something just to hunt. I'd like to do it to then use the birds for food.

Yep I'd only shoot for my dinner not for fun.