Anyone been deer hunting?
28 February 2011, 09:37 PM
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Yes ive been
Its all Culling,Taking the week,old or injured and converting them into food
Depends where you live but Scotland is the most popular realy,buy shooting times,or sporting gun,there quite a few that advertise in them.
You wont need a firearms licence if you go with a stalker as anyone can shoot if they are supervised buy the licence holder,they must be over 21
Its all Culling,Taking the week,old or injured and converting them into food
Depends where you live but Scotland is the most popular realy,buy shooting times,or sporting gun,there quite a few that advertise in them.
You wont need a firearms licence if you go with a stalker as anyone can shoot if they are supervised buy the licence holder,they must be over 21
28 February 2011, 09:44 PM
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Roe aren't classed as vermin, Muntjac are. All deer except Muntjac are ccovered by seasons.
Best place to start would be the British Deer society, plenty of info and training requirements on their website.
David, quite easily, they taste great, although yes, being able to do it does take some seperation from being a modern human, once your used to it its easy. I prefer deer meat to beef and pork.
Best place to start would be the British Deer society, plenty of info and training requirements on their website.
David, quite easily, they taste great, although yes, being able to do it does take some seperation from being a modern human, once your used to it its easy. I prefer deer meat to beef and pork.
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28 February 2011, 09:52 PM
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i know people who do seems more humane if done right than the stress of a comercial slaughter house, cant see any difference between shoot wild deer and eating them then eating free range pork.
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Roe aren't classed as vermin, Muntjac are. All deer except Muntjac are ccovered by seasons.
Best place to start would be the British Deer society, plenty of info and training requirements on their website.
David, quite easily, they taste great, although yes, being able to do it does take some seperation from being a modern human, once your used to it its easy. I prefer deer meat to beef and pork.
Best place to start would be the British Deer society, plenty of info and training requirements on their website.
David, quite easily, they taste great, although yes, being able to do it does take some seperation from being a modern human, once your used to it its easy. I prefer deer meat to beef and pork.
But I have given up veal and haven't had foie gras for years, so I am making a start!
And I was born on a farm so not a complete townie - just a middle class softie I suppose
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It's a bit like Gaddafi giving up being a ruthless dictator...
...but just on his birthday!
01 March 2011, 09:30 AM
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Perhaps not much difference but they do seem to be luxuries that we could easily do without and I thought the methods used to enlarge goose livers were pretty unpleasant for the birds. I could add Caviar where a 40 year old fish is destroyed just for a bucket of foul tasting salty eggs. And Shark's Fin soup - the list goes on.
Must go - off to club a seal.........
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01 March 2011, 11:07 AM
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My friends uncle was a game keeper and said we could hunt deer on the estate he ran.I dont have a problem shooting usually,but when i had one in my sights i couldnt pull the trigger,i must be going soft in my old age 
The rabbit didnt fair so well though 
The rabbit didnt fair so well though
01 March 2011, 11:37 AM
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Les, your not alone. A lot of people I know once they have any animal in their sights they can't do it, 1 is an ex SAS sniper! Humans he didn't have a problem with, animals were a different matter.
Just goes to show, everyones make up is different. Personally, yes I had a problem with it when I first went out, now it doesn't bother me. Still makes me sad, but I know its food.
Just goes to show, everyones make up is different. Personally, yes I had a problem with it when I first went out, now it doesn't bother me. Still makes me sad, but I know its food.
01 March 2011, 12:18 PM
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Could shoot one quite easily if I wanted, then skin it and cook it, just dont feel the need to, that said I might have another go at the Wabbits at the in laws this year though and make a nice stew for Sunday lunch.
05 March 2011, 10:05 PM
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.Nor do you need to take courses before you shoot them.
Roe aren't classed as vermin, Muntjac are. All deer except Muntjac are ccovered by seasons.
Best place to start would be the British Deer society, plenty of info and training requirements on their website.
David, quite easily, they taste great, although yes, being able to do it does take some seperation from being a modern human, once your used to it its easy. I prefer deer meat to beef and pork.
Best place to start would be the British Deer society, plenty of info and training requirements on their website.
David, quite easily, they taste great, although yes, being able to do it does take some seperation from being a modern human, once your used to it its easy. I prefer deer meat to beef and pork.
05 March 2011, 10:06 PM
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05 March 2011, 10:15 PM
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Yes ive been
Its all Culling,Taking the week,old or injured and converting them into food
Depends where you live but Scotland is the most popular realy,buy shooting times,or sporting gun,there quite a few that advertise in them.
You wont need a firearms licence if you go with a stalker as anyone can shoot if they are supervised buy the licence holder,they must be over 21
Its all Culling,Taking the week,old or injured and converting them into food
Depends where you live but Scotland is the most popular realy,buy shooting times,or sporting gun,there quite a few that advertise in them.
You wont need a firearms licence if you go with a stalker as anyone can shoot if they are supervised buy the licence holder,they must be over 21
http://www.thedeerinitiative.co.uk/p...s%20170909.pdf
05 March 2011, 10:24 PM
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With all due respect, that's probably because you don't understand it. How do you think venison gets on the table?
Stalked venison is invariably killed in a more humane way than anything that goes through a slaughter house (chickens, turkeys, ducks, sheep, pigs, cows, anything farmed commercially, the list is endless), or don't you eat any of those either?
Stalked venison is invariably killed in a more humane way than anything that goes through a slaughter house (chickens, turkeys, ducks, sheep, pigs, cows, anything farmed commercially, the list is endless), or don't you eat any of those either?
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With all due respect, that's probably because you don't understand it. How do you think venison gets on the table?
Stalked venison is invariably killed in a more humane way than anything that goes through a slaughter house (chickens, turkeys, ducks, sheep, pigs, cows, anything farmed commercially, the list is endless), or don't you eat any of those either?
Stalked venison is invariably killed in a more humane way than anything that goes through a slaughter house (chickens, turkeys, ducks, sheep, pigs, cows, anything farmed commercially, the list is endless), or don't you eat any of those either?
your havin a laugh slaughters houses do not they kill them in barbaric ways ive been there the sound off then frightend then killed land the smell enough said killers
05 March 2011, 10:59 PM
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