Shooting season impact

zeissman

It's ridiculous, i can't go out shooting on my own but I can go out jogging with my mate.

The pigeon man

It's starting to feel like the restrictions are less about preventing the spread of Covid 19 and more about making our lives absolutely miserable.

zeissman

zeissman wrote: »

It's ridiculous, i can't go out shooting on my own but I can go out jogging with my mate.

I was in tesco on Wednesday. I could buy Lego but not a pair of jocks.



Nevermind 5km, I could shoot snipe 500 metres away from my front door on my own, except thats prohibited, but me and 4 friends could go jogging around the town.


It makes no sense.

grassroot1

garrettod wrote: »

Here we go again...

More sh1te, and we just sit here and take it, as per usual.

The NARGC have enough members that they can ask everyone to start phoning their local politicans, to apply pressure. Why aren't they doing it?

Suffice to say, everyone here should be doing the same...

Seriously which RGC is not issuing that call to its members?

Grizzly 45

We are starting to get intl attention
https://www.fieldsportschannel.tv/irish-greens-use-lockdown-to-ban-shooting-sports/

grassroot1

Benny mcc wrote: »

no hunting or shooting is essential right now so we can all do the right thing and stay the fcuk at home and maybe next year we'll be out the other side of this s#*t and be back to normal. I understand the trying to justify getting out for a shot and I was thinking the same but it's all a bit selfish.

We it is essential for me I have worked in a medical setting all through lockdown and I need it for my sanity.
Tell me the difference between going for a walk inside 5km and going hunting on your own inside 5 km.
Covid 19 regulations are just an excuse for something else

Pkiernan

Walking alone in a field will not spread Covid.
Walking alone in a field with a shotgun will spread Covid.

J.R.

Pkiernan wrote: »

Walking alone in a field will not spread Covid.
Walking alone in a field with a shotgun will spread Covid.

Walking alone in a field with a shotgun, shooting crows, will not spread Covid.

Walking alone in a field with a shotgun, shooting pheasants, will spread Covid.

meathstevie

Keep your powder dry for when the election comes around folks, which will be sooner rather than later, and blow their boat clean out of the water at the ballot box.

Nobody I know has any issue with reasonable regulations and measures, nobody. I’m not only involved in shooting, I’m involved in other sports as well which I miss dearly but I can understand why underage and non -professional games shouldn’t be going ahead.

I can understand why numbers in restaurants and pubs should be limited and buses and trains should operate at reduced capacity. I understand the need for and support the use of face mask and enhanced hand hygiene measures in shops and so on.

What I can’t understand though is that you can’t get COVID with 35 in a classroom and that buying socks will give you and your neighbors COVID and buying a bag of spuds in the same shop won’t. Same thing with COVID being no problem in Pairc Tailteann but life threatening in Balreask Old.

When regulations become unmitigated bovine excrement someone needs to shout “STOP” and recalibrate on a basis of common sense.

Anyway, do as I say and not as I do said the man at the certain golf society do.....

Eddie B

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Eddie B

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deni20000

You hit the nail on the head, Denartha - they just couldnt let sleeping dogs lie.

Grizzly 45

Whats an Antou when its at home??
But it seems to be on our side which is nice.

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/why-take-hunting-golf-even-mass-when-there-is-no-covid-threat-aontu/

marlin vs

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Whats an Antou when its at home??

It's an all Ireland political party.

meathstevie

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Whats an Antou when its at home??
But it seems to be on our side which is nice.

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/why-take-hunting-golf-even-mass-when-there-is-no-covid-threat-aontu/

Basically Peadar Toibin, TD from Trim.

deni20000

Fair play to Aontu - at least theyre supporting us which is more than can be said for the mainstream parties as far as I know.

garrettod

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

We are starting to get intl attention
https://www.fieldsportschannel.tv/irish-greens-use-lockdown-to-ban-shooting-sports/

That's a serious concern.

wexfordman2

meathstevie wrote: »

Basically Peadar Toibin, TD from Trim.

"Sunday (November 1). An Garda Síochána has released a statement on the matter:

“This normally involves shooting club members travelling to pheasant shoots around the country, frequently in groups, and is regarded as sport shooting."

The gardai statement above revealing how stupidly and dangerously ignorant the gardai are in the subject .

I was pleasantly surprised to hear many gunshots in my area this evening. Pity they had such awful weather.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I was pleasantly surprised to hear many gunshots in my area this evening. Pity they had such awful weather.

Didn't hear a single shot where I am. Usually it's like beirut every year.

The Rifleman

The Rifleman wrote: »

Didn't hear a single shot where I am. Usually it's like beirut every year.

The weather probably didn't help. I didn't even leave the house this weekend. Friday evening I braved it far enough to stock up on firewood, and that was as far as the veranda.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The weather probably didn't help. I didn't even leave the house this weekend. Friday evening I braved it far enough to stock up on firewood, and that was as far as the veranda.

Yeah maybe. Rains been bad the past couple of days. But it wasn't raining this morning here though and usually I hear a few shots even a day before the 1st so I assumed there would be lads that would head out regardless.

J.R.

Deleted User wrote: »

The weather probably didn't help.

As Billy Connolly said - "There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes."

J.R.

Pheasant shooting Covid-19 restrictions raised in the Dail today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvZk4d3ewNI

Mississippi.

Totally deflected the question.
" how do you know that they don't go outside 5km " and then attacking the Healy Rays.
Doesn't look like he'll change much

meathstevie

Mississippi. wrote: »

Totally deflected the question.
" how do you know that they don't go outside 5km " and then attacking the Healy Rays.
Doesn't look like he'll change much

Deflecting is what you do when you can’t or don’t want to give a straight answer. Physical/recreational activity within 5km from one’s home. I still haven’t heard a single argument why that can be done with a pushbike on a road and not with a dog and a gun along a ditch in a field.

garrettod

meathstevie wrote: »

... I still haven’t heard a single argument why that can be done with a pushbike on a road and not with a dog and a gun along a ditch in a field.

And you won't !

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I was pleasantly surprised to hear many gunshots in my area this evening. Pity they had such awful weather.

I heard a couple of shots near me for the first time this season today. I guess someone is fed up waiting.

yubabill

Must've been lots of predator control going on around me starting 1st Nov at 9am, because heard lots of shot and I can't remember the last time I heard a shot here on the 1st (I never go out on the 1st and I don't bother much with pheasants - meat too dry for me - there's no gun club around me for miles, btw).