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    Exclamation Glorious Twelfth

    12 August ... marks the start of the 'Grouse Shooting Season' in Scotland.


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    Banned fox hunting , i wonder when this too may be banned ,


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    Oh well ... ... I wonder whether there'll be any more replies to this thread than there were when it was first posted exactly a year ago?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    Oh well ... ... I wonder whether there'll be any more replies to this thread than there were when it was first posted exactly a year ago?
    I noticed on the news it stated that Grouse shooting causes flooding, How, does anyone know?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Parnham View Post
    I noticed on the news it stated that Grouse shooting causes flooding How, does anyone know?
    ............................................................................... 's because it's invariably up here.

    Yup, Michael ... yesterday being ANOTHER year down the line, I decided to resurrect this thread, and have come up with a definitive answer to your question.
    Last edited by Arthur Little; 13th August 2017 at 18:00. Reason: "That'll be" - in first paragraph - changed to 'because'.


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    Grouse like Pheasants are bred in captivity and released to fatten up before shooting season starts, so not like fox hunting.

    As for the floods......
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    When is pheasant season... my drive to work I pass several fields, and have on several occasions almost ran a few over as they run across the road.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve.r View Post
    Grouse like Pheasants are bred in captivity and released to fatten up before shooting season starts,
    That's 100% not true Grouse in the UK are most certainly not reared in game farms nor bred in captivity for driven shoots. Do a bit of research on the subject and you will find they are all totally wild birds. That's why grouse shooting costs so much. I have shot a few grouse when I was a kid, not the posh way as in driven over the butts by a line of beaters, but with a single barrel shotgun when I used to crawl up to them in the heather. We ate them. I was at the CLA Game Fair last week in Hertfordshire. I saw a weekend of grouse shooting advertised at £12000.

    Pheasant season starts October 1. Pheasants are reared on game farms. They originated in China. If anyone thinks pheasant shooting is objectionable because they look nice, they should see the driven shoots they do in new Zealand where they pop off peacocks.



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    I presume they know it causes flooding in a similar manner that they know that wolves can change the course of a river. Have a look here:-

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...-change-rivers


    eta. found it, but not nearly as interesting as the wolf story

    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...oor-drain-land


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    True fact that the British countryside wouldn't look the same in certain areas without land management aimed at game-shooting and the old fox-hunting. It was all part of our heritage and shaped the moors coverts, etc., which were managed for hunting and shooting.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post

    If anyone thinks pheasant shooting is objectionable ...
    ... then -> rightly so,
    'cos they are bound to know:-
    Ending
    up plucking pheasant
    CAN'T be very f...ing pleasant
    !


    Hopefully nobody finds my last line objectionable.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    That's 100% not true
    If their habitats were not managed then they would be in steep decline. Management of their land is basically artificially raising them
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve.r View Post
    If their habitats were not managed then they would be in steep decline. Management of their land is basically artificially raising them
    You said they were bred in captivity, now you're changing the goal-posts a little. Management of land isn't artificially raising them at all "basically" or otherwise. You originally said they are raised in captivity like pheasants. That's not true either. I have been shooting all my life, I know quite a bit about game management. Management of land merely helps their survival rate, burning heather, predator control etc, it's not artificially raising them at all. That's a totally different concept. There's management of grizzly-bear hunting in Alaska with quota systems, are they artificially raised?

    Even when you said pheasants are raised to fatten up? Really? They are not, they are raised as poults to give them a head start before release, not to "Fatten up".



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    Quote Originally Posted by SimonH View Post
    I presume they know it causes flooding in a similar manner that they know that wolves can change the course of a river. Have a look here:-

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...-change-rivers


    eta. found it, but not nearly as interesting as the wolf story

    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...oor-drain-land
    Interesting read, question answered.


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