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From the Herald today
very poor on all accounts. Is this what relly think of sheep?
Goats, really?
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From the Herald today
very poor on all accounts. Is this what relly think of sheep?
sticky
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That is not a recent photo, it’s been floating around for a fair while.
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- Yorkshire
How much are they paying? I might have a few candidates for them to hunt.
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- West Wales
That’s an old photo, I can’t remember her name but she travels the world on big game hunting, as do many others - Ibex and mountain goats usually
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- Yorkshire
Larysa Switlyk
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- Scottish Highlands
Well, someone ought to point out it's not a goat but a sheep! And a domesticated sheep at that, so someone is having a laugh at the woman's expense. This is, after all, a public forum! The sheep would have been an easy stalk.
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The photo was from the Herald online this morning, it's still there but as expected someone has commented on the fact that its a BF tup. @Fendt516profi article says up to £1000.
I see the paper version have a photo of REAL goats. I've no problem with hunting but she looks a right prat with a poor old blackie. Hope it wasn't someone's that strayed, wonder if they checked the ear tags
What a hero. Yes I recall she was the one who also shot an old giraffe and then posed with it like she had saved us from the Terminator.
Rant over.
I see the paper version have a photo of REAL goats. I've no problem with hunting but she looks a right prat with a poor old blackie. Hope it wasn't someone's that strayed, wonder if they checked the ear tags
What a hero. Yes I recall she was the one who also shot an old giraffe and then posed with it like she had saved us from the Terminator.
Rant over.
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Without ‘big game hunting’ there would be very few big game. The money from the likes of her pay for much of the conservation work for those species.
Maybe this will be the salvation of hill farming in the UK, paying for the conservation of that rarest of beast, the hill shepherd.
Maybe this will be the salvation of hill farming in the UK, paying for the conservation of that rarest of beast, the hill shepherd.
Woolless
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An easy stalk? Have you ever gathered blackies on the hill?
betweenthelines
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Rumour was that farmers in the Brecon Beacons used to mark sheep that soldiers on exercise could shoot "by accident" for a share of the compo?
Ancient history.... still seemed a bit strange, but hey-ho.
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Back in ancient history when I ran a sporting agency for North Sea oil personnel, I had a client who had seen Scottish feral goats out of the car window and had an ambition to stalk and shoot one.
That was duly arranged with the resident stalker leading the client, belly to the ground, up every gully and bog still holding water, until they got within 100 yards of an old billy. I, having more sense, followed, upright, about 100 yards behind, walking on dry ground and in plain sight. The billy, meantime, was watching these proceedings, no doubt with raise eye brows.
The client got his billy while the rest of the herd looked on bemused. I, on the other hand, was jumping up and down waving my coat in an effort to make them look "wild". The remaining goats just ambled off.
Roll on 12 months and I was telling this story to some others when I suddenly noticed one of the group wasn't laughing.... Yes, you guessed it!
That was duly arranged with the resident stalker leading the client, belly to the ground, up every gully and bog still holding water, until they got within 100 yards of an old billy. I, having more sense, followed, upright, about 100 yards behind, walking on dry ground and in plain sight. The billy, meantime, was watching these proceedings, no doubt with raise eye brows.
The client got his billy while the rest of the herd looked on bemused. I, on the other hand, was jumping up and down waving my coat in an effort to make them look "wild". The remaining goats just ambled off.
Roll on 12 months and I was telling this story to some others when I suddenly noticed one of the group wasn't laughing.... Yes, you guessed it!
I seem to remember Elizabeth Elder in the FW saying there’s a fair bit of ‘friendly fire’ sheep based ‘collateral damage’ on Otterburn Ranges in Northumberland. But with some of the bigger toys they use there it would be hard to find an ear tag.
Nearly
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@TripleSix
Does she fancy a month in Ukraine going after tanks etc? Or to Russia going for the leader of the pack?
primmiemoo
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Too much of a posing coward, I'll bet.
Honestly, my hackles rise seeing that smug, entitled individual. Grrrrrr!
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Hey that's my diversification idea. Hope they don't want to keep them as a trophy as I was thinking of a box meat scheme toWithout ‘big game hunting’ there would be very few big game. The money from the likes of her pay for much of the conservation work for those species.
Maybe this will be the salvation of hill farming in the UK, paying for the conservation of that rarest of beast, the hill shepherd.
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- Montgomeryshire
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Blackies don’t normally shoot back though.
serf
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- warwickshire
I thought it was Emma gray on first look
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Very strange it's in the press today, it's an old story - from 2018
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US huntress facing Scottish firearm charges for shooting ‘farm animals’
An American big game hunter who posed for pictures with slain goats and sheep in Scotland is facing firearms charges. TV host Larysa Switlyk, 33, shared a photograph posing with a wild goat on the …
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