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Hunting Ethics

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  • 16-09-2005 6:12pm
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    dathi1
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    Just reading a post over on Nature/ Bird watching on the resurgence of Buzzards and other Birds of prey in the Dublin area. One post states that these birds can become the target of shooters??? I cant believe any straight minded hunter would just blow rare birds like this out of the sky. Is this common amongst the shooting fraternity or rare?


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    Flattop 15
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    Pardon my French,but we like any groups of humanity do have a few reckless a££holes who give the rest of us a bad name.
    Same with modified cars,you will have the clown who insists on doing doughnuts in the housing estate or tuning his cherry bomb at 3AM whilst listening to Slipknot at full volume. :mad:
    In shooters you will have the Moron who shoots road signs,damages phone & power cables and shoots anything that moves or flies.Thankfully they are really a TINY minority of the shooting community.

    It is actually more of a heavy rap to be caught shooting a bird of prey.[basically anything with a hooked beak].

    As such any GENUINE hunter will have and be a very ethical person and have a very ethical mindset to his quarry.As it is a living creature you are hunting for food or whatever,it behooves you to have some respect for it.
    As such we dont "blast" anything[thats left to explosives and demolitions]either.We shoot or hunt.


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