I Wish

[bepo 4]

i wish we could put a season on Ur rabbit like the ducks season,to stop people hunting Ur rabbits all year round.and give the rabbit time to breed again,anyone agree with me in Ireland AND England.

[OldhamLad 66]

Im getting sick and tired of seeing Lamping Postings on here where they take 60 plus rabbits anyone with half a mind will realise that this would deplete a rabbit population!

 

My self justification for ferreting hunting in general is the idea you catch what you eat! so unless there going to eat 60 fecking rabbits then its just pointless culling!

 

Pointless culling to me is clearing out a rabbit population that is not hindering the land owner IF the landowner has said get rid of them due to pastoral farming arable farming reasons etc then fine they have to clear them all out.

 

Final Point we as "hunting men" should surely have it in our best interest to protect the rural and urban wildlife in order to preserve it for future generations as to pass on to our children the ability for them to hunt, so by taking out the majority of rabbits in a particular area you also effect local stoat populations,foxes etc everything has a knock effect.

[bepo 4]

i agree with you there,i see lads over here taking a lot of rabbit at night and not even bring them home,and if there was 8 days of the week they would be out and its not about the farmer over here,it just sicking me.i do a bit of lamping in the winter but i just might go 2 or 3 times in a month and 7 or 8 rabbits will do me.

[The one 8,600]

Take out your on ground where theres no big numbers ,a season for rabbits why are they on the vermin list then ?.

[OldhamLad 66]

Please rephrase the statement The One? Are you suggesting that it should be self regulated i.e retiring your own permissions as and when needed?

 

And rabbits are on the vermin list for all the reasons im sure a man off your large post calibre understands

 

I think the point to be made is nationally there is a decline in rabbit numbers scroll the forums newspaper articles particularly in the north west numbers are struggling I believe what some people are getting anti over is the different viewpoints about "vermin" and the morality and ethical issues surrounding rabbit hunting i.e f**k it there just rabbits there vermin kill them all (lets look at the wider picture)

 

The fact of the matter is rabbits are vermin due to the fact they damage crops etc and they are classed as a non native species but they have been far long enough just like the grey squirrel to perhaps be classed as a resident, either way the rabbit is a part of englands fragile ecosystem and therefore I believe and from what I can tell many others believe it is high time that "hunters" start to take a more countryside management approach to hunting rabbits and perhaps ensure suitable numbers are left behind after they have been ferreted or particularly lamped, this would then ensure a sizeable gene pool for future generations and also provide food for the local ecosystem etc

 

That is just my viewpoint Take it as you will

[Leeview 794]

and where do rats come in your order? should they be given a close season to breed?

Y.I.S Leeview

Edited March 26, 2013 by Leeview

[OldhamLad 66]

Rats are another story all together

[Leeview 794]

Rats are another story all together

They're vermin,other animals eat them and some members partake in ratting for control purposes dont know of anyone who leaves any rats to provide for future days out.

so whats the other story all together?

Y.I.S Leeview

[bepo 4]

ya rats a vermin we don't hunt them for the pot,they are dirty and no one in the world wants to see a rat around the place that's the point,rabbits we hunt for the table they should not be call vermin they are game like the duck.

[bepo 4]

i have never seen anyone bring rabbits to the local gun-club to make up there points for the year,so why are they call vermin

[Leeview 794]

ya rats a vermin we don't hunt them for the pot,they are dirty and no one in the world wants to see a rat around the place that's the point,rabbits we hunt for the table they should not be call vermin they are game like the duck.

the difference between sport and vermin control? Sport you have to pay for the privilege vermin control your doing the landowner/tennant a service for free

Y.I.S Leeview

[Leeview 794]

i have never seen anyone bring rabbits to the local gun-club to make up there points for the year,so why are they call vermin

Do the members take squirrel,rats and foxes to make up their points?

Y.I.S Leeview

[bepo 4]

yes they do and crows

[albert64 1,882]

Im getting sick and tired of seeing Lamping Postings on here where they take 60 plus rabbits anyone with half a mind will realise that this would deplete a rabbit population!

 

My self justification for ferreting hunting in general is the idea you catch what you eat! so unless there going to eat 60 fecking rabbits then its just pointless culling!

 

Pointless culling to me is clearing out a rabbit population that is not hindering the land owner IF the landowner has said get rid of them due to pastoral farming arable farming reasons etc then fine they have to clear them all out.

 

Final Point we as "hunting men" should surely have it in our best interest to protect the rural and urban wildlife in order to preserve it for future generations as to pass on to our children the ability for them to hunt, so by taking out the majority of rabbits in a particular area you also effect local stoat populations,foxes etc everything has a knock effect.

 

 

how long have you been hunting? and do you rest your permissions?

[robbo 879]

When i started going up the yorkshire dales it would have taken me two hours to drive up ,half an hour to catch enough for the pot and two hours to drive home.Who in their right mind is going to do that. I have been going up there twenty years, taking good numbers but the last two bad winters have managed to do what we couldnt and virtually wiped them out in certain areas.