Pop pop, Bang bang

[Char]

Char there is another side to the chass.
Any damage gone by sanglier, chevreuil etc the local chass has to pay for as they are responsible for keeping them down.
Have you seen what sanglier can do to a field of crops? Let alone a garden. Or deer to a plantation of trees, we have enough damage done to our fruit trees and roses by the half dozen seen around here
I do admit that a lot of them couldn't hit a flying barn.
Being a country lad I used to hunt but in my day it was for the pot or go hungry.

Being a country girl myself, I too have shot my fair share of game for the pot, and could still probably skin a rabbit if I had to.

I know wild boar can do damage to crops, but if we keep taking their habitat away from them where else are they supposed to go. I'm sure you wouldn't be very happy if someone took away all of your land and house, then told you they'd kill you if you stepped foot on it again.

As someone else has pointed out on this thread, a proper rifle is needed to cull them along with a proper marksman - not the bunch of neanderthals we have around here.
They don't have a lot of respect from the locals either, so it's not just me, each year more land is being removed from the hunt. It won't be long before they'll have nowhere they can play and we'll all be a lot safer.

As for justifying the killing of deer by the fact they eat peoples roses - well I'm lost for words tbh.

I'd best shut up now, before I chase everyone away from the forum.

[Spardo]

[mention]Char[/mention] Was it roses? I thought it was tree bark, but that can be protected I thought. I know Doug has mentioned before that he no longer has, or possibly wants, a dog, but I would welcome the sight of deer in my, wild, garden, but the ever present dog of course keeps them away.

[Mangetout]

They hunt on horseback with dogs round our way. I love to see them but I don't much like what they're out to do. But to be honest I very much doubt they ever catch anything. Never seen such a badly organised gathering. They go back and forth all over the place, galloping through the orchards like they own the place.

[Veem]

A while ago, yet another hunt dog turned up on our land. None of the usual sounds of chasse in the immediate area; gunfire, hounds baying, terriers yapping, men shouting, bugles sounding off. No white vans belting up and down the lane. The dog had a phone number on his collar which I rang. Yes, he owned the dog, but no, he couldn't pick him up as ............... he was on horseback and didn't know the area. Just let him go, he said. He'll find me ............... I hope he did.

[Doug]

No comment[mention]Char[/mention]
Now I withdraw.

[Blaze]

[mention]Char[/mention]
+1
I'm a country girl too and have also worked on a farm, shot for the pot and I held a full firearms licence for many years (for target shooting, not wildlife). I dislike the gung ho attitude of many chasseurs, though they can't all be tarred with the same brush.
I also agree that culling should be done by proper marksmen rather than letting a load of drunken morons loose. I wonder how many wounded animals are left to die of their wounds ....
I've seen some appalling treatment of horses during chasse à courre - galloping on hard roads, heaved about as if they were machines. Many horses are hired out so little care is taken of them. I would not tar all hunt riders with the same brush but many have no respect for people living in the area, blocking the roads, and hurling abuse at local residents. The chasse à courre can travel fair distances during a day out and have little thought for the damage they leave behind them.

[Pathca]

[mention]Doug[/mention] Come on it’s a forum,people have different opinions,that’s life It wouldn’t do for us all to like the same .Char expressed her view very politely no need to take it the wrong way

[Doug]

@Doug Come on it’s a forum,people have different opinions,that’s life It wouldn’t do for us all to like the same .Char expressed her view very politely no need to take it the wrong way

I don't want to comment for that reason, respecting others view, nuf said ok

[Char]

Crumpets, If I got upset every time someone had a different view about something than I did, I'd be a very miserable person. Everyone has different ideas/opinions 'tis what makes the world go round.

I really don't mind that doug thinks differently to me t'was only a discussion and I was merely talking about the so-called hunters we have around here.

Anyway, I'm sure we'll agree with each other about other things in the future.

[flatfish]

Around here the chasse have feeding stations to encourage the sanglier to stay in certain areas. We have one on the outskirts of our village. If sanglier are such a menace then why do we rarely see them. OK, so they have become nocturnal, but we don't see any road kill evidence either. In fact there is virtually no road kill at all.

We've travelled in parts of the world where wild life is abundant and the food chain has not been broken. It always saddens us to live surrounded by serious and extensive wilderness which is seemingly devoid of wildlife. A far cry from, say, Wetern Canada where our son has a deer living under his house and bears wander through the garden,

Martin