Pheasants.

[santaman2000]

Hmmm - I can see a weekend trip from NC to Florida coming up, Santaman

(Just joking - last time I drove that I was truly knackered!)

You'd be welcome. Although the land is in South Mississippi. I'll be taking my step-daughter and her fiance up to see it the weekend after Thanksgiving. She's never seen it and I thought it's time she did. It won't be a deliberate hunting trip but as Thansgiving Day is the first day of the first deer season we will be armed while wandering about

 

[santaman2000]

Okay, feelers out to start with just to gauge seriousness in attending. How does £110 for a days shoot sound? That'll include nibbles beforehand, port, damson gin or whatever along the course and a meal at the end of the day. Shooters and beaters all mix together, no stuffy, serious attitudes. It's a welcoming, working mans shoot with well tendered birds. This is non-commercial.

You have no idea just how much I'd love that. But as affordable as the rest of it sounds, the trip to the UK is more than I can handle ATM. I'd still love to hear how it progesses though!

 

[cave_dweller]

Were the silence traditional it would not have been necessary to revive it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/447302.stm

That was crass.

 

[Bushwhacker]

The proviso is January. The hard part is coordinating a group of people to agree a date!

 

[Camel]

The proviso is January. The hard part is coordinating a group of people to agree a date!

If you persist in your very generous offer m'lud, I'm game. I'll be driven boar shooting the first weekend of January but apart from that am free.

 

[boatman]

That was crass.

The truth can be painful but we have to live with it.

Now a proper counter-argument would be to say that a tradition can often fade away so the Silence might have been a tradition but that might have taken reasoned thinking.

 

[Robbi]

you are one rude provocative man !!

 

[Bushwhacker]

If you persist in your very generous offer m'lud, I'm game. I'll be driven boar shooting the first weekend of January but apart from that am free.

It's all there. People just need to put their hands up really, so that I can make a better assessment of how to structure it.

 

[johnnytheboy]

Anyone passing Falkirk on the way to Dorset :-D

Camel, where are you off to driven boar shooting? home or abroad? something I fancied doing in years to come!

 

[Camel]

The truth can be painful but we have to live with it.

Now a proper counter-argument would be to say that a tradition can often fade away so the Silence might have been a tradition but that might have taken reasoned thinking.

The truth is that you've not replied in substance to any of the points raised by myself or others on the issues you yourself raised.

In the circumstances haughty posting from you on "reasoned thinking" is plainly laughable, is it not?

 

[Camel]

Anyone passing Falkirk on the way to Dorset :-D

Camel, where are you off to driven boar shooting? home or abroad? something I fancied doing in years to come!

Hell, London's only half way and i can lend you a shotgun if you like!

No driven boar in the UK yet but if the antis cut enough fences...

I'm going to Croatia on a friend's shoot. His whole village turns out and it's quite a party.

It's the sport of Kings, figuratively speaking of course

You have be careful with driven boar shooting, people's expectations are usually higher than the reality in most wild hunts.

Ask away or pm me closer to the time if you like.

 

[Robbi]

Camel, the man ( Boatman ) is clearly a troll, don't give him the satisfaction of a responce, ignore him mate.

 

[boatman]

Should one accept being called crass and a Troll without response? I have shown evidence of pheasants being reared in battery cages, that driven pheasant shooting is not a country tradition and what might be a way of identifying a true tradition. I also answered what I took to be a reasonable question by you Robbi in a reasonable manner.

 

[Robbi]

Ignore list activated for the first time ever ........POW !! man, that feels good

 

[Bushwhacker]

Camel, the man ( Boatman ) is clearly a troll, don't give him the satisfaction of a responce, ignore him mate.

He sounds like he was abused as a child. People rarely have such an attitude in adult life without some underlying factor.

 

[spandit]

What's that smell? Scent of threadlock?

 

[boatman]

Voltaire: it is a wicked beast that defends itself.

Very pleasant childhood, have your children had one?

 

[Bushwhacker]

What's that smell? Scent of threadlock?

I recommend loctite grade 242 for general use, but we're talking about pheasants here.

 

[Bushwhacker]

Voltaire: it is a wicked beast that defends itself.

Very pleasant childhood, have your children had one?

Still having one and plenty more years of joy to come has my son. I certainly wouldn't lock him in a room and force him to learn philosophical quotes. He'll be socialising with real people and making his own mind (and philosophy) up. All good in the neighbourhood round here tugboy.

 

[Keith_Beef]

To bring this thread back on topic, have none of you ever read "Danny, the Champion of the World"?

Danny's dad clearly explains that a pheasant is a wild bird, and does not have an owner. When the birds are on his garage forecourt, he can quite legally take them, if they are in season, and the local bobby summoned by the man who reared the pheasants confirms this.

However, the method that Danny uses to get those birds out of the woods and onto the forecourt is quite clearly poaching and this is also made clear in the book...