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Inheritance makes you entirely blameless, whatcha got to flog geez?
I would cheerfully disagree with @Aroogah and @andyp. I went to school in Norfolk and the only break to the wheat, pesticide and barbed wire monoculture were the shooting estates with their woods, game crops and hedgerows. Guess where the wildlife lived. I have lived in the wilds of Sussex since 1987, almost everyone involved in shooting is disturbingly normal and of average means. It's probably a bloody sight cheaper than, say, cycling.
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Inheritance makes you entirely blameless
That's what the Royal family would have you believe. Starts off with shooters, ends up with mummy and daddy running an empire
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I reckon that by choosing to murder something for a hobby you're automatically not "normal", maybe just disturbing. Can't they just do cheese rolling or morris dancing or whatever else it is people get up to in the countryside?
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You know how to trigger me, don't you?
Monoculture is bad, clearly, and leads to large swathes of land that is impoverished with wildlife. But shooting estates are equally bad as they encourage one species over all others, which has a devastating effect on biodiversity. Over 40 million pheasants are released into the UK countryside every year and any animal that is deemed a potential predator is shot, trapped or poisoned to ensure that there are enough pheasants left for the uber-rich* to shoot.
In Wales, Scotland and the Pennines huge swathes of uplands have been stripped clean of any biodiversity either by grazing sheep or deer, or to allow grouse to flourish, the latter two again providing entertainment for the uber-rich.
*my dad goes beating on a local estate, a day's pheasant shooting for a party of eight costs approx £25k, that is not something for anyone of average means.
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Would you feel safe shooting with this lot? Maybe a ND as Andrew walks past is planned for Boxing Day?
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andyp
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I now have the image of Vinny Jones standing on the open boot of a range rover shooting stuff in front of the range rover.
Is it golf club/shootie club if you inherited your shooters and shootie things such as cartridge press? Or does that make it more golf/shootie club.