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[Northern jock]

Good film. As for culling - what else? RTA's better (not with me please). Wolves? Aye right, can see them being allowed on mass - but if they do, will they film an old stag being taken out by them?

Of course not, killing of animals doesn't need to happen. Meat appears from meat factories, not animals.

And as for being shot like that rather than a bolt in the skull, at least it had lived its life out in the wild rather than a wee field.

Be trying to save the rabbits and crows in my garden next

 

[boatman]

Bring back wolves. They can predate the deer and the odd huntsman!

Dunno if I fancy that , wild camping would be an extremely dodgy pastime in the event !!!!!!

 

[Ronno]

Maybe, and if it was.....



The animal in the film appeared to have an injured back leg or hip as well.

Oh dear, my wee joke for Gerry's benefit seems to have missed the target

 

[gerarddwatts]

Feck off.....see that's one used already....

 

[Packer]

Oh dear, my wee joke for Gerry's benefit seems to have missed the target

Ahh, too subtle for the likes of me Ronnie

 

[Northern jock]

Oh dear, my wee joke for Gerry's benefit seems to have missed the target

Neck shot?

 

[david a hall]

Maybe, and if it was.....



The animal in the film appeared to have an injured back leg or hip as well.

Looks lame on the front left to me....

 

[doyle]

After watching this again a few times,i have changed my opinion. The filming is still very good,however the stag prior to being shot is already wounded. Either from being probed by another stags horn or by a shot. A number of things brings me to this conclusion. When the stag gets to its feet after lying down it is stiff all over ,especially towards the back end and its front left shoulder.Its ears are back , but the give away is the tail wagging.This, a beast does in the final throes of life.The filmed shot of the stag turning just prior to the shot with its tongue hanging down is very unnatural considering it has just risen,even if it is a steep bit of ground. So to summarise,well filmed,dramatised,dodgy,but the dogs expression of utter keenness made it.
Any anti's i don't blame you for your opinion.

 

[jonnyingram]

Whatever you show,say, the toonies, antis, will never ever understand country folk. We are on our own,

 

[Schtum]

It would be hypocritical of me to object to this. Apart from anything else, I love venison and for anyone looking in I could do with some more fresh minced venison if you know where some is to be had. Equally, as far as I'm concerned, it would be hypocritical to eat it without being prepared to kill it. My first personal rule of management was never to ask someone to do something that I wouldn't do myself. I don't think I'd have any issue with culling a stag, if it was going to the table. I learned that a long time ago when I used to shoot rabbits with a .22 pump-action Winchester on open sights which was a really nice wee gun. We ate the rabbits or fed them to the dogs and the newly planted tree saplings got a chance to grow. Yes, I had friends whose family had an estate back in the day - who'd a thunk it?

However, maybe we could even things up a bit from a moral perspective by ensuring that deer to be culled were clearly identified and marked prior to being stalked. I'd suggest that they're marked with a Union Flag or perhaps a portrait of David Cameron. They could then be shot without any qualms whatsoever......

I only popped into the Scottish Section just now to post about the forthcoming Solar Eclipse, as well......

 

[Fanum]

You're on a loser...those that don't understand never will and don't want to..

You have a short memory sir.

My mind was changed

 

[gerarddwatts]

Ah.....but you've got a brain....