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12th August 2015 #1
Glorious Twelfth
12 August ... marks the start of the 'Grouse Shooting Season' in Scotland.
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12th August 2015 #2
Banned fox hunting , i wonder when this too may be banned ,
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12th August 2016 #3
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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13th August 2016 #4
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13th August 2017 #5
............................................................................... '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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13th August 2017 #6
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......If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
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13th August 2017 #7
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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13th August 2017 #8
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.
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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13th August 2017 #9
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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13th August 2017 #10
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.
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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13th August 2017 #11
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14th August 2017 #12
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14th August 2017 #13
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".
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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14th August 2017 #14
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14th August 2017 #15
I can change goalposts if I like.
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
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