Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
I used to follow a pack beofre than ban woud catch over 200 a season, dont tar all packs with the same brush pun intended , as usually the critics commenting have no clue what they are talking about.
Hunting.....what's the point?
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borderterribles
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Not to mention ones hit by cars!
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
And unhealthy dying ones that need dispatched. Cars kill more then double the amount of foxes than hounds, perhaps antis should not drive cars.
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/...s-concrete-proof-of-illegal-hunting-1-8761733
Not sure how much truth is in it but this popped up on Facebook
Not sure how much truth is in it but this popped up on Facebook
Pieces_of_Eight
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The terrier work is a separate issue, but does the video actually show hounds hunting the fox?
The fox and hounds are not in the shot at the same time and the video is obviously edited.
The fox and hounds are not in the shot at the same time and the video is obviously edited.
Pieces_of_Eight
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But it's not illegal, as long as the wordings of Schedule 1, paragraph 2 are adhered to.
That video suggests that they weren't.
Even pre-ban, it was against the MFHA's own rules to run a fox into a set of holes and bolt it to hunt again.
Edit: The video doesn't actually show a terrier, nor does the article mention the use of dogs underground. Evicting a fox with drain rods instead of terriers would not contravene the Hunting Act 2004.
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borderterribles
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For how disinterested those hounds look, Charlie could well be safely miles away.
Pieces_of_Eight
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Their performance was hardly inspiring, in contrast to the Welsh bolt I saw on video somewhere.
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- Scottish Highlands
One thing you can do with video is manipulate time. So the sequence the clips are shown in may not be the sequence in which they were shot.
Sound and video are generally on two tracks (at least), so unless you have sound in sync with lips moving, the audio could be lifted from totally different footage and edited in to appear to be what the men are (or not) saying. Ever watched a spaghetti western?
These days all sorts of manipulations can be done with video. How do I know this? Because I've done it! "The camera never lies". Bullsh!t!
Sound and video are generally on two tracks (at least), so unless you have sound in sync with lips moving, the audio could be lifted from totally different footage and edited in to appear to be what the men are (or not) saying. Ever watched a spaghetti western?
These days all sorts of manipulations can be done with video. How do I know this? Because I've done it! "The camera never lies". Bullsh!t!
bracken basher
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DYFED-Powys Police are investigating a report that five hounds belonging to the Llanwnnen Hunt were shot dead on private land in the Lampeter area.
http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/arti...ICrd886Kk5jESlSbWjvs4Ir27a4vWvmAnZuMnV1-4v5e8
http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/arti...ICrd886Kk5jESlSbWjvs4Ir27a4vWvmAnZuMnV1-4v5e8
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I suspect he will live to regret that action.
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How else would you suggest foxes to ground are dealt with?
depends whether you want THAT fox killed. 'Lambing call' work is very much for a purpose.
If that’s true it is a despicable act of the worst kind. The offender should feel the full weight of law and be ostracised from the local community. Whatever his argument with the hunt it is inherently wrong to take it out on the hounds.
Words fail me
For the protection of game birds presumably
The Suffolk arable boys are as far away from your style of farming as it is possible to be. They just don’t understand, livestock is a dirty word to them
@Banana Bar had a brief dalliance with some sheep ...... but it didn’t last long Should qualify that statement as there is an enlightened organic farmer integrating sheep into arable cropping in Suffolk I don't have an issue with digging on its own for pest control in areas where it is difficult to shoot. But it seems un sporting when a fox has gone to ground after a hunt has chased it for miles to then dig it back up.The Suffolk arable boys are as far away from your style of farming as it is possible to be. They just don’t understand, livestock is a dirty word to them
a little tale for you then.
I used to rent a bit of ground off an old pal off the hill, it being handy for putting ewes with twins away to in the spring.
He dutifully kept an eye, and was soon noticing a lamb per night going.
He happened to be a keen 'rough shoot' man -sadly now long underground- of the old skool countryman type.
He was out night after night after this sodding fox, but never saw it. The lambs kept going.
Driven bat sh*t to think I was losing lambs like this, we called in the local MFH, who came with a couple of hounds, and a shovel.
Quite nearby, they marked an earth in some woods, and dug out a 3 legged fox, who'd been living very nicely on my lambs.
I've seldom witnessed it as neat as this, but it was a perfect bit of practical work.
And no, i don't shoot pheasants, or ride to hounds