Buying land (in the UK)

[scooterscot]

Family has a couple of hectares in Skye, rent it out to you for a special price...

[AtW]

Certainly don't want to go around maiming animals and causing suffering.

Fook man, you want to fooking kill 'em!!!

[Jeff Maginty]

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[scooterscot]

Interesting idea. Perhaps I could rent a country house that has suitable land attached, just for a week or two as a "shooting holiday". Not sure about Skye though, because it's just too far away and would cost me a fortune to get there & back.

You might find what you're looking for on airbnb.co.uk


Incidentally getting up to Skye from Glasgow is not much of a problem these days with this service: Loch Lomond Seaplanes - Home

[AtW]

Which do you think is more distressing to a magpie?:

1) Being clawed & slashed to death over a period of a minute or two by the tallons & beak of a sparrow-hawk (or other bird of prey).

2) Being killed almost instantly by a .22 lead pellet travelling at 600 feet-per-second hitting it in the head.

I am confident that 9 out of 10 magpies would prefer to be slowly eaten by a sparrow-hawk than to be insta-killed by you.

Birds of tough character them magpies.

[KentPhilip]

I always wanted to get into shooting.

Why don't you just join a clay pidgeon shooting club. Just google "shooting club"?

Learn to do it properly - that way you won't accidentally kill yourself or anyone around you. Like Dick Cheney nearly did.

[bobspud]

AtW - I respect your assertion of your values.


I could say that the reason I want to hunt is because some pigeons crapped all over me one morning as I walked from Liverpool St. station into work in the City (about 13 years ago). I had to go and buy a new pair of trousers & shirt (cost about fifty quid) because it was still cheaper than going home and losing billable hours...

...or I could say that the reason I want to hunt is because rats and pigeons spread disease and I've read that magpies peck the eyes out of baby lambs, even as they are being born...

...but to be honest...

...I just want to hunt because it's my instinct as a man (even since childhood). We're hunter-gatherers. That said, I do respect the quarry though. Certainly don't want to go around maiming animals and causing suffering. A good hunter only fires a shot if he/she is confident of a clean killl.


PS: I'm not MF.

Why don't you buy a hard shell breif case and just go pigeon swotting in Trafalgar Square?

Just walk toward one, stamp your foot and when the feathered vermin goes to fly off ... Blam...

Should get at least two or three before they drag your sick arse off to charing cross nick.

[Old Hack]

Why don't you buy a hard shell breif case and just go pigeon swotting in Trafalgar Square?

Just walk toward one, stamp your foot and when the feathered vermin goes to fly off ... Blam...

Should get at least two or three before they drag your sick arse off to charing cross nick.

Pigeons are incredibly easy to eat as well. Pop a .22 into them, and then as they're on the floor, literally use your thumbs to pull their chest apart, the skin and feathers tear, part and then you just whip out their breasts with a leatherman. No messy entrails or anything. Taste great too. Well, not too sure about those flying rats in Trafalgar Square, but out in the sticks they do.

[Mich the Tester]

Pigeons are incredibly easy to eat as well. Pop a .22 into them, and then as they're on the floor, literally use your thumbs to pull their chest apart, the skin and feathers tear, part and then you just whip out their breasts with a leatherman. No messy entrails or anything. Taste great too. Well, not too sure about those flying rats in Trafalgar Square, but out in the sticks they do.

whs

Agricultural land is probably a good long term investment too.


Oo aarr.