[Brillopad]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a8042311.html

No sympathy with the hunter I’m afraid. Good on the deer I say. I hate the hunting and killing of animals for sport and it’s about time that one of the most hunted, the deer, fought back.

[Crimson Dynamo]

if you play with knives...

[Kizzy]

France's environment minister Nicolas Hulot to criticise hunting with hounds as "a practice from another century".

Or in other words, England :/

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

France's environment minister Nicolas Hulot to criticise hunting with hounds as "a practice from another century".

Or in other words, England :/

Do you really want to go down the road of so-called centuries old ‘traditions’ and their dubious practiceses. We seem to adopting some such ‘traditions’ from others, that seem perfectly ok with you.

[jet]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a8042311.html

No sympathy with the hunter I’m afraid. Good on the deer I say. I hate the hunting and killing of animals for sport and it’s about time that one of the most hunted, the deer, fought back.

Totally agree. Reading that has made my morning.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by jet

Totally agree. Reading that has made my morning.

Me too Jet. A brave deer who left his mark.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

Do you really want to go down the road of so-called centuries old ‘traditions’ and their dubious practiceses. We seem to adopting some such ‘traditions’ from others, that seem perfectly ok with you.

I'll humour you, go on enlighten me.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I'll humour you, go on enlighten me.

No need, it has been said to death - you just conveniently ignore it as it clashes with your agenda.

[user104658]

I'm not necessarily AGAINST hunting, but I do think that guns should be banned. And hunting in groups. It should only be legal to do it solo, on foot and armed with one small knife. And then we could keep score.

My money would be on the animals tbh, the ones that aren't stronger than humans are usually faster. We're sort of crap .

I also really don't get how the article is describing it as a "tragic accident"... they cornered an animal with the intent of killing it, and instead it killed one of them. I'm sure it is tragic for his family even if he was doing something sh*tty, but how can it possibly be described as an "accident"

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

Do you really want to go down the road of so-called centuries old ‘traditions’ and their dubious practiceses. We seem to adopting some such ‘traditions’ from others, that seem perfectly ok with you.

I'm genuinely bewildered that you would take your own thread about deer hunting off topic within the first few posts and make it an argument about Muslims and still be making the claims of innocence that you were yesterday, Brillo. What's more, I expect your supporters will STILL pretend not to see the issue . I for one don't particularly want to go back there so - since you were insisting in that thread yesterday that if we don't like your views on this subject we could simply stay out of those threads - could you, at least, make an effort to keep it out of other unrelated threads? You made a thread about hunting. A topic that most people on here (maybe everyone?) actually DOES agree on. Keep it about hunting maybe?

[DemolitionRed]

I was bringing a horse in one day during pheasant hunting season. As we walked along this track, my horse suddenly stopped and started snorting at something just ahead of us. It was a large beautiful stag looking straight at us and standing stock still. I then heard a voice just behind me saying, "hold your fire" and turned to see several gunmen. I just stood there refusing to move until the stag turned and ran in the other direction.

It wasn't dear shooting season. They were not permitted to hunt deer but many hunters are opportunists who often break the law providing nobody is watching. Hunters of the western world are people who enjoy killing and people who enjoy killing, deserve all they get if the hunted animal kills them.

I noticed in that article that they've just passed the hunting of stags in Epping forest.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

No need, it has been said to death - you just conveniently ignore it as it clashes with your agenda.

There you go again attempting to hijack threads with your cryptic nonsense.
Stick to the topic for once!

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

I was bringing a horse in one day during pheasant hunting season. As we walked along this track, my horse suddenly stopped and started snorting at something just ahead of us. It was a large beautiful stag looking straight at us and standing stock still. I then heard a voice just behind me saying, "hold your fire" and turned to see several gunmen. I just stood there refusing to move until the stag turned and ran in the other direction.

It wasn't dear shooting season. They were not permitted to hunt deer but many hunters are opportunists who often break the law providing nobody is watching. Hunters of the western world are people who enjoy killing and people who enjoy killing, deserve all they get if the hunted animal kills them.

I noticed in that article that they've just passed the hunting of stags in Epping forest.

What?.... Unbelievable

[user104658]

There is a large overpopulation issue with deer, HOWEVER the reintroduction of natural predators is a much, much better solution to that problem than allowing bored arseholes with guns to go out shooting them for probably pseudosexual thrills. In my opinion it's not really all that different to the sociopaths who go out killing people's pets... it's just a legitimate / legal version of it.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I'm genuinely bewildered that you would take your own thread about deer hunting off topic within the first few posts and make it an argument about Muslims and still be making the claims of innocence that you were yesterday, Brillo. What's more, I expect your supporters will STILL pretend not to see the issue . I for one don't particularly want to go back there so - since you were insisting in that thread yesterday that if we don't like your views on this subject we could simply stay out of those threads - could you, at least, make an effort to keep it out of other unrelated threads? You made a thread about hunting. A topic that most people on here (maybe everyone?) actually DOES agree on. Keep it about hunting maybe?

I intend to. But if you notice I responded to a direct sarcastic insinuation about centuries old traditions that seemed very hypocritical to me bearing in mind that poster’s stance on other centuries old traditions. A hard one to ignore.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

There is a large overpopulation issue with deer, HOWEVER the reintroduction of natural predators is a much, much better solution to that problem than allowing bored arseholes with guns to go out shooting them for probably pseudosexual thrills. In my opinion it's not really all that different to the sociopaths who go out killing people's pets... it's just a legitimate / legal version of it.

There is no overpopulation of deer in Epping forrest.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

I was bringing a horse in one day during pheasant hunting season. As we walked along this track, my horse suddenly stopped and started snorting at something just ahead of us. It was a large beautiful stag looking straight at us and standing stock still. I then heard a voice just behind me saying, "hold your fire" and turned to see several gunmen. I just stood there refusing to move until the stag turned and ran in the other direction.

It wasn't dear shooting season. They were not permitted to hunt deer but many hunters are opportunists who often break the law providing nobody is watching. Hunters of the western world are people who enjoy killing and people who enjoy killing, deserve all they get if the hunted animal kills them.

I noticed in that article that they've just passed the hunting of stags in Epping forest.

I hope they didn’t get that poor stag. Very disappointed in the Epping forest decision.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

There is no overpopulation of deer in Epping forrest.

I just mean in general. The justification for hunting is often to "restore equilibrium", but the fact is, it was humans that wrecked that equilibrium in the first place by hunting and trapping OTHER animals to local extinction. It was a system that was working perfectly well for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years before humans decided that they "knew better" and decided to get rid of the supposedly "dangerous" wildlife.

[Livia]

If you need to bring down animal numbers use a marksman to shoot them with a clean shot. Anyone who wants to kill something for fun is a weirdo to me.

[Crimson Dynamo]

They have to kill the deer in Richmond park every now and then and its done as humanely as possible but to shoot a Stag for fun is disgusting murder and should be treated as such

[Kizzy]

A deer nearly killed my daughter on the M62 there needs to be some containment granted but bloodsports?... No.
For food? Maybe.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

A deer nearly killed my daughter on the M62 there needs to be some containment granted but bloodsports?... No.
For food? Maybe.

Not for me. But whatever it should be done humanely.

[Kazanne]

Good for the stag I say,no sympathy for the man whatsoever .

[jet]

Anyone who hunts for sport should be shot themselves. They are nothing short of murderers.

[Amy Jade]

Deserved death hahaha