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I'm not a big fan of the loose application of 'common sense' to science, especially when the same assertion has been shown to be false in other cases. I didn't want to get into a debate on this really, the thread seemed more about history than politics. Just can't help myself but pick up on statements like 'humans haven't sustainably hunted anything'.
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Oh without a doubt but I would say commercial hunting has a massive impact on whale population due to their gestation period and low birth numbers. I'm not so sure. I'm not an expert so please show otherwise but doesn't accidental catch by commercial fisherman and ship collisions kill far more than hunting? Yes they do but I would say these are a necessity, I don't think whaling is. I'm sure hunting isn't quite as severe these days as past times but a whale is not a hare or a grouse and can't bounce back like these animals can IMO. But they are doing while be hunted in a regulated
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Oh without a doubt but I would say commercial hunting has a massive impact on whale population due to their gestation period and low birth numbers. I'm not so sure. I'm not an expert so please show otherwise but doesn't accidental catch by commercial fisherman and ship collisions kill far more than hunting?
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I would say there are tons of examples of sustainable harvesting, the number one cause of population declines isn't a lack of human ability to self regulate harvests, it's a lack of human ability to not destroy ecosystems that game species are dependent on. Studies have shown that on keepered estates 69% of Brown Hares can be culled/harvested annually and often are, sustainably, yet nationally the Brown Hare has seen significant decline over the decades of rising intensive farming. Likewise with Grouse and English Partridge. It's not an inability to sustainably harvest game, it's our inability
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Of course most shooting estates operate on and with modern agriculture, the point I'm making is that there are many examples of sustainable hunting. Intesively farmed, heavily managed, it makes little difference to my point that critical habitat destruction is THE number one cause of population reduction. Modern hunting practices are not generally the cause and in fact are shown very often to counter these effects. The hunting interests of hunting and shooting estates mitigate the ecological damage that intensive farming and human population growth have had in the UK since the war and as I sai
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I would say there are tons of examples of sustainable harvesting, the number one cause of population declines isn't a lack of human ability to self regulate harvests, it's a lack of human ability to not destroy ecosystems that game species are dependent on. Studies have shown that on keepered estates 69% of Brown Hares can be culled/harvested annually and often are, sustainably, yet nationally the Brown Hare has seen significant decline over the decades of rising intensive farming. Likewise with Grouse and English Partridge. It's not an inability to sustainably harvest game, it's our inability
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Not while I was there you wouldn't, I would literally beat your ass haha. I'm a right two faced cnut, I love hunting most animals but there's some that's way off the chart for me. If I saw somebody killing a tiger I honestly say I could shoot them and I wouldn't feel no remorse whatsoever. Be a short trip and at best a long swim for you then. Fancy going whaling and trying to harm anybody that actually hunted a whale!
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That game rack looks smart as! Cracking setup for small days shooting and what not. I'm bizarrely more taken with that game rack than the roof box. The box is smart too.
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Fascinating industry. Be a great experience, personally. Hunting Life Whaling trip 2017? LOL
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Ye never got the stark ones or whatever they called did ye, anti scratch ones? No, I was tempted for bramble protection but I don't like the look and frankly I'm a bit dubious of those type. I like a bit of a high rand but that's a bit much for me. So long as the leather is decent and theirs a gore-tex type lining that should be ample tough enough for a boot imo. I'm very happy with the Gamekeeper so far. Well made boot and the three width options is a great idea.
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It'll never be lifted which is a shame considering you can bow hunt all over the rest of the Anglosphere, a chunk of Europe and Africa. Makes you wonder what the potential revenue would be from bowhunting tourism. It's massive in the States with the likes of Shockey and Cam Hanes etc and with the UK's relative high density deer populations I imagine those high wealth tourists would love to come here and get a load of hunting in.
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I really liked the Sneeker Aqua but they are a very lightweight boot (1.8mm leather), still mine were very robust considering. They've survived the bramble infested country I live in so I can't say I have had a similar experience to you Neems. I've just last week got a new pair of the Gamekeepers and they seem great, much prefer them to the Meindl Dovres, but that's just a personal preference due to the choice of a narrower fit option. Far more robust build (2.8mm leather) than the Sneeker, but then they are designed to be. They are gonna take a bit of breaking in for me but time will tell
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Even the use of strategic nukes is more than a simple topic. Considering the development of US and NATO-European missile defence networks. The Russians get very pissy about that because it threatens their ability to strike and therefore maintain a credible deterent.I've always been led to believe that we are very capable of using nuclear attacks but are virtually defenceless from being attacked ourselves??Do you think Trident would save the day? National and regional missile defence systems are still in development with destroyers and other assets being tested in that role. It's an evolving t
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Even the use of strategic nukes is more than a simple topic. Considering the development of US and NATO-European missile defence networks. The Russians get very pissy about that because it threatens their ability to strike and therefore maintain a credible deterent.
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You do realise we have done a lot more damage and unsettled these countries a hell of a lot more than Russia?Russia not unbeatable? What are you smoking? If we ever went to war with Russia then it's likely we are all goners... I honestly don't know why people think Russia are some sort of hard bitten super power. They have little to no expeditionary capability. http://www.europeangeostrategy.org/2014/01/european-geostrategy-audit-major-powers-worlds-fifteen-most-powerful-countries-2014/ The Kremlin is far from transparent on their military capabilities, they don't seem to bothered about
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You do realise we have done a lot more damage and unsettled these countries a hell of a lot more than Russia? Russia not unbeatable? What are you smoking? If we ever went to war with Russia then it's likely we are all goners... I honestly don't know why people think Russia are some sort of hard bitten super power. They have little to no expeditionary capability. http://www.europeangeostrategy.org/2014/01/european-geostrategy-audit-major-powers-worlds-fifteen-most-powerful-countries-2014/ The Kremlin is far from transparent on their military capabilities, they don't seem to bothere
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You do realise we have done a lot more damage and unsettled these countries a hell of a lot more than Russia? Russia not unbeatable? What are you smoking? If we ever went to war with Russia then it's likely we are all goners... I honestly don't know why people think Russia are some sort of hard bitten super power. They have little to no expeditionary capability. http://www.europeangeostrategy.org/2014/01/european-geostrategy-audit-major-powers-worlds-fifteen-most-powerful-countries-2014/
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All this talk of Macnab I think I will have to invent the Midlands Macnab which I am now declaring to be fallow buck, a brace of English partridge and a brown trout. All have to be truly wild too. Might have to be a team effort because I've no interest in fly fishing, lol, but I have access to all three so be a shame not to... I reckon out at the crack of sparra fart for the buck, then straight on the river for the browny after breakfast, then that'll give you most of the day to walk stubbles and set-a-side for the brace of English and if you didn't manage the buck in the morning you'll ge
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It's a 17 Hornet you want!.................... Oh you're talking about bugs.
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An Afternoon Shooting Over The Germans And A Sea Eagle
Born Hunter replied to MIK's topic in Gundogs & Retrievers
I'm sure I've read that you keeper a few pheasants MIK. I presume for driven shooting? Are these HPR types at all suited to that sort of work? In the beating line I mean. They sound fantastic for a rough shooter and vermin work but I get the impression it'd be a mistake to force them to work close in the beating line. Anyway, I like the pics and reading the dogs progress. -
Wouldn't that depend on the context? Anything can be evidence but for it to be solid it needs to be tested, reinforced, refined until it stands up to claim, and counter claim. That's incredibly simplified, I know, but what would your criteria be? Evidence is subjective, even though to some it is fact to others it is open to interpretation. For example take a hung jury, they are all presented with the same evidence, yet each member has interpreted that evidence in their own way and drawn different conclusions. TC Depends on what the evidence is, if I measure something to cut with a t
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Last year I heard on the grape vine that one of the combine drivers bumped a fox and took it's tail off. Tall story I thought but later found the brush in the same field that I was told it happened..........
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Thanks for that as that was my main concern about them I dont like a dog to depended on the human.I like a dog with a brain to work things out for them selfs They'll hunt like f**k given the chance to many a keeper and head beaters despair! You don't have to worry about the tapped fuckers free hunting!
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Anybody concerned about spaniels being too dependent on human direction needn't be. Those dogs are raised that way, it becomes second nature for them to keep close and regularly look to their handler. If raised to hunt more freely they will and with determination! Hell, half the the spaniels that are supposed to stay close will c**t a drive up in under 30 seconds! LOL. I couldn't think of a better breed for knocking out thorny coverts, thick set-a-sides and big hedges, typical bushing stuff.
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Cracking little story from The Fieldsports Gazette. The day when the PH Robin Hurt nearly died. http://www.fieldsportsmagazine.com/Stalking/close-calls-part-1.html The hunting of a wounded Leopard is the one big five scenario that has always interested me. About as dangerous as it gets...
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