Born Hunter
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Agree on all points mate. I saw one try to take a adult rabbit once, it got one buckaroo and decided it was over matched. I suspect it was a young bird still figuring out it's capability.
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I think if we could remove our subjective human views of beauty and view things purely from an ecological/conservation point of view buzzards really would be seen as little different to crows.
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You have written off a proposed CANZUK union because of your experience with another political union, the EU. But you support another political union, the United Kingdom. My question is why would CANZUK be the disaster that the acts of unification that made the EU is and not the success the acts of unification that made the UK is? The EU and the UK were both created by separate acts of political unification. Simply comparing the proposed CANZUK union to the EU is a straw man, why not compare it to any number of other examples of political union, i.e. the UK? We do probably agree yes, I ju
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Why is the EU bad and the UK good though? Why would a CANZUK union necessarily be like the EU rather than the UK? Five eyes is one of the examples of how well we can work together. It's interesting to discuss how we might take that further... As I said, I'm certainly in favour of a closer and stronger CANZUK relationship. Much more than just trade deals. But maybe not as far as political unification. I'd like to see the four nations become a household name of political force/allies. I'd like to see the nations turn to each other first on international matters, such is the trust and d
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And before Westminster became the centralised government for the union of kingdoms (UK), we had a centralised government that was the result of England's constituent kingdoms (the seven Anglo Saxon kingdoms) unifying. I mean how far do you want to take this back? Unification isn't good or bad in itself. We can show good examples and bad examples. I assume you think any kind of CANZUK political unification is bad. I haven't made my mind up which is why I posted this thread. I'm 100% up for greater political cooperation, an alliance. But perhaps Union is too soon to even consider.
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Why does the UK need to be a political union? Political unification brings about efficiency and capability. It's literally the point in any sort of centralised government on any level. I'll put you down on the no union list.
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Indeed, rightly or wrongly we threw in with our neighbours at the expense of our family and freedom generally. But the question here is would the muted CANZUK Union, in whatever form that might take, be the way forward with our Anglosphere family? Or should we keep things 'strictly business' like we will with much of the rest of the world? I've never been against political union, we are after all part of one right now. What I was opposed to in the EU was the union of such different nations. We were too different for my liking which was the cause of every problem. Also perhaps union i
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This has been talked about before but this is the first time I've seen it laid out. I'd certainly like to see a closer relationship between Anglosphere nations, it just makes sense and it's a f***ing shame things were neglected for so many decades given the citizens clearly feel bonded culturally.
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I saw one once at an ex girl friends parents house running down the driveway wall! I ran out to check the little guy out and I was obviously so fascinated by the experience that it didn't once cross my mind to take the opportunity to flatten the little c**t! I'm sure to anyone reading this the strange part of it isn't the mole bit but the girlfriend bit. c**ts....
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Hooked into a pike on light spinning gear when I was a kid, it came cruising through the water in front of me like a f***ing submarine, flared it's gills, opened wide and chucked up adult brown rat! The big girl then whipped her tail throwing the treble and cruised off one way while the rat sank into the depths. Not particularly strange but cool.
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A few years ago that is something that I would have listed on this thread. But last year I finally got my shit together and got my first kill. Looking forward to warm summer days with my gear in a rucksack hiking the coastal paths looking for quiet bays and coves to have an armed snorkel about... Nothing serious like some of these guys but fulfilling nonetheless.
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Different kind of mean. Haha
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In the UK I'd consider footstalking them sporting given the law. But yeah outside the scope of this thread bowhunting would be a high priority.
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As it should be.
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Yeah, also read quite a bit about upland bird shooting in the US. Mostly stuff over spaniels. It's proper 'hunting'.
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I'm trying to think what else I want to do but struggling a bit, which is good I guess. More than anything I want to just do a lot more of what I've already experienced. But I'd like to add ptarmigan. They live in tough country and you earn your feed with those. Red grouse over pointers would be worthwhile too. Perhaps boar too, but I'm not exactly rivetted by the thought of splatting one over feed out of a seat...
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Stags in the meanest country Scotland can offer.
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Again, I never said I was surprised. I honestly don't know where you got that from. I don't know what the problem is?
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I never said they couldn't. I said they don't throw BACK to each other. If cousins share a trait then it came from a common ancestor, a grand parent etc that they share. One cousin didn't pass the trait to the other, they were both passed it by a grand parent, which is what throw back means.
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What does that have to do with this thread? We were discussing why white red foxes exist in red fox populations. No one, especially me, have claimed it came from f***ing humans! Haha Francie, I don't want to waste my time discussing evolution theory with someone who's only objective is to prove creationism. Just leave it be.
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Mate this is getting ridiculous now. We're speaking different languages. If you can throw BACK to your cousin who ain't your parent or grandparent or grt grandparent then I don't know what sort of breeding programs you guys are running. Lol
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Yes environment most likely. Sexual selection can be responsible for this too but in this instance I agree it was likely environment. No, you're misunderstanding natural selection. Adaptation couldn't happen if everything died off could it. If you took red foxes and released them in the arctic it's likely that lighter colours would be advantageous and so the arctic red foxes would all become lighter due to the ones with lighter mutations being more successful at passing on their genetics. But there's a lot of factors at play there, that environment would pressure the fox in all sorts of e
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Yeah sure, and that colour quite likely came from a common ancestor. It certainly didnt come from each other as theyre not in eithers parentage. They're cousins, they can't be responsible for each other genetics can they.
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Dogs do not throw BACK to cousins, unless the cousin is also a grandparent or great grandparent. By definition throw BACK.
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Why did the arctic have to come from the red or vice versa? That's an assumption. They might have come from a some other common fox ancestor. Why would they have had to adapt to their new environment in a short time? When a species migrates it doesn't catch a flight at Heathrow and is in a new continent by tea time! LOL. They adapt as fast or slow as they need to and evolution allows them to. If their current form is sufficient to survive then adaptations will propagate throughout the species as and when those mutations occur. If a certain mutation is critical then all those without it wi
