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Hunting season!!

Ruski Nath

Ruski Nath

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I went grouse hunting yesterday at my cabin. My dog usually scares up grouse everytime she runs through the brush. Instead it looks like a bunch of woodcock invaded cause the land is so wet and that's all I've seen. Not that this is bad, but I like the taste of grouse better. But the pheasants seem to be sticking around.

Does anyone else grouse hunt (or hunt at all?) How have you done this season so far?
 
I want to go hunting.. Shame you sort of need your own estate to hunt in England
 
Not really, you just need to find a farmer, golf course willing to let you on his land, as in give you written permission.
It is an actual offence under the wildlife and countryside 1981 act NOT to take care of pest species on your land.
Most have someone to take care of pigeon's, rabbit's but some might not...

Basc insurance needed.
You only need to move your arse a little bit ;)

Not been out myself, just don't have time or a shoot unless I want to travel to Sussex.
 
Would love to go Quail, and other tasty bird, hunting.

But even if I can find a farmer, I'll need a rifle/shotgun.. surely these cost a bomb?
 
Not really, you already got an air rifle don't you?
Sub 12ft/lbs is ok for hunting small game. If you do pest control near horse stables they won't let you use anything else.
A good shotty can be had for £250 if you look around. Basic rifle around there aswell.
Shotgun certificate or firearms certificate and off you go. Need valid reason for both and have referee's.
Very rare to find quail in the uk afaik unless released which some people do , partridge , grouse, woodcock, pheasant etc... yes.
 
Have an air rifle, cheapo £100 one.. shot a seagull with it from about 40 metres away and it just got a shock and flew off, so it would just injure any game and not be very humane.

Still, will look into some Xmas dinner hunting :)
 
*ahem* carefull with the seagulls ....;)
You can book a cottage in Devon and other places in the uk where they will let you hunt included in the price. Small game only.
 
Arnold said:

You always get one soft headed wanker from the city 8)
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You are welcome to move to a place that has a broad range of enjoyable activities that don't involve ending a living being's life in exchange for your personal satisfaction.
 
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Gamo Shadow 1000 (1000 fp/s muzzle velocity). Identical to mine, except mine has a layzar mounted on the scope, purely for that Metal Gear Solid factor ;).

It's incredibly light thanks to the resin body, but packs a bloody punch.

.22 hollowpoints ftw!

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Sadly resides at my mates house in the country after i moved into a city :(.
 
Wonder how I can find out the muzzle velocity of mine.

Its a rather heavy piece of wooden kit
 
I'm planning that I will do air rifle based deer hunting in some splendid realm, because I still eat meat.

Unfortunately hunting with air rifle is not even legal here; I have a decent air gun with which some folks have killed a bison.



BTW, IT IS .45 CAL
 

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Wonder how I can find out the muzzle velocity of mine.

Its a rather heavy piece of wooden kit
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http://www.chronoscopes.com/
You need one of them, the "lets count the amount of yellow pages it goes through " ain't very accurate ;)
.177 should be around 750fps (iirc..t'is late)
.22 should be around 550fps
With a springer, presume that's what you got, you test it with the lightest pellet availabe.
If it's above 12ft/lbs you can get into trouble, minium sentence for a firearms offence is 5 years.
You only need 2,5-3 ft/lbs at target to kill a rabbit, pigeon which a 12ft/lbs will easily have at 35 yards.
 
Its definitely a .22, and yes it is a springer.

I'll try the yellow pages thing just for fun, should the nozzle be touching the book?
 
Huh. In the US, there is public land set aside for hunters, but it kinda takes the whole game aspect out of it as the birds are all confined to one area.

I got 2 pheasants and a grouse this weekend on my land! :-) yummy
 
A basic .22 is a fairly low powered weapon, but a .22 Hornet or Magnum, or a .223 is a nice piece of gear for anything other than serious game. Hollowpoints are crap too, unless you're talking about things that don't move at close range.

My pick would be a .223 for general use, they're powerful enough, and very accurate. Then a .308 on the side for the serious stuff when you need range and power.

As for those who are against hunting, you're entitled to an opinion. I have two rules that I like to follow.

1) Only hunt animals that are considered as pests - OR
2) If they are not considered pests, they must be at least in plentiful supply, and be shot for the purpose of eating.

I would never hunt anything endangered, inedible, simply for the purpose of killing it.

As for this quote: You are welcome to move to a place that has a broad range of enjoyable activities that don't involve ending a living being's life in exchange for your personal satisfaction.

I trust you are a vegetarian? I would consider the [often relatively inhumane] practices of killing animals in abattoirs to be completely and utterly involved in the ending of a living being's life in exchange for one's personal satisfaction.

Despite the incredibly obtuse issues something such as hunting presents, for those of us who were not brought up in cities, as hard as this may be to comprehend, it represents a part of OUR cultural heritage. Generations before have done it, and the process of hunting for food is something many may never understand fully.
 
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