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<blockquote data-quote="Longlowdog" data-source="post: 7826610" data-attributes="member: 395"><p>I used to run a small shoot on the estate I worked on in The Lakes, a few wild birds and put down a some ex-layers and friends only shooting. I now run my wee 65 acres with wild pheasant shooting in mind but now I own my wee bit of paradise and see my broods of wildies coming along the desire to shoot them has gone. Kinda the same with stalking which used to be my real passion, second only to foreshore shooting. Watching roe kids from birth (several times now) to maturity has taken the edge of my own personal desire to kill them. I still derive a lot of pleasure from putting others onto roe or watching folk shoot cocks only wild pheasant but now I think It is a case as has happened throughout the hunting world where the preservation of the asset for the future becomes more pertinent to folk as they age and realise they have had a good time and it is time to put something back to leave the system better than when they utilised it. I've no regrets about anything I've hunted/shot, and still believe that giving game a value and making it a revenue stream and a source of pride makes it more precious than banning shooting where animals are at the mercy of urban, uneducated thinking and regulation by folk who chase populist votes without concern or understanding of the things they claim to be protecting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Longlowdog, post: 7826610, member: 395"] I used to run a small shoot on the estate I worked on in The Lakes, a few wild birds and put down a some ex-layers and friends only shooting. I now run my wee 65 acres with wild pheasant shooting in mind but now I own my wee bit of paradise and see my broods of wildies coming along the desire to shoot them has gone. Kinda the same with stalking which used to be my real passion, second only to foreshore shooting. Watching roe kids from birth (several times now) to maturity has taken the edge of my own personal desire to kill them. I still derive a lot of pleasure from putting others onto roe or watching folk shoot cocks only wild pheasant but now I think It is a case as has happened throughout the hunting world where the preservation of the asset for the future becomes more pertinent to folk as they age and realise they have had a good time and it is time to put something back to leave the system better than when they utilised it. I've no regrets about anything I've hunted/shot, and still believe that giving game a value and making it a revenue stream and a source of pride makes it more precious than banning shooting where animals are at the mercy of urban, uneducated thinking and regulation by folk who chase populist votes without concern or understanding of the things they claim to be protecting. [/QUOTE]
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