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Bodkins; illegal in the UK?
Jaeger:
England is one of our greatest allies , i cant understand where the world is headed with the things people are for nowadays,taking hunting away from people is just ,just I have no words either it makes my blood boil to hear about it too!
billy:
HEy, the govt over here is also trying to steal our freedoms as well. Just remember what they did to the Native Americans. That same govt still rules us today, and anyone who thinks they are any different or they have changed their stripes over the years is a fool....
Rod:
--- Quote from: Harudath on September 17, 2009, 01:04:30 pm ---From what I gather, bowhunting was banned because it is an inhumane way to kill an animal (to be honest). There were many problems with people shooting an animal, it ran then off with an arrow in it and they couldn't find it to finish it off so they left it wounded to die slowly, or when they did catch up to it they weren't able to bring themselves to kill the animal, and so left it. Another issue being poaching; the bow and arrow is silent compared to gunshot, people could easily sneak around and hunt without being detected.
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As I recall it was a knee-jerk reaction to a rash of oiks shooting pets and swans and suchlike.
Often with a crossbow judging by the missile found in some of the animals, which stands to reason since most of these blokes likely would not have been able to hit the inside of a barn with the door closed with anything that required some skill.
As for poaching with a bow and arrow, not too clever unless you can retrieve all your arrows. Especially if you are known locally to be an archer capable of hitting his mark.
And in those days we still had enough rural bobbies who knew their patch and just about everyone on it.
Rod.
zeNBowyer:
"Most of these blokes likely would not have been able to hit the inside of a barn with the door closed with anything that required some skill"
Rod,
though the English may not hunt they have a long tradition of archery, with lots of clubs where people shoot regularly, when I was there I shot at one of their clubs and they are no slouches when it comes to bows:)
Cromm:
--- Quote from: zeNBowyer on September 18, 2009, 01:43:08 pm ---"Most of these blokes likely would not have been able to hit the inside of a barn with the door closed with anything that required some skill"
Rod,
though the English may not hunt they have a long tradition of archery, with lots of clubs where people shoot regularly, when I was there I shot at one of their clubs and they are no slouches when it comes to bows:)
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What Rod is saying is that it wasn't an archer but most likely be a guy or boy who has just got a crossbow for £45 or $60 at a fishing shop, gone into the woods got bored with shooting at a 10 ring target and has shot a deer,dog,swan or something with a target point arrow, the animal runs off is found walking around with an arrow in it's butt and it's the Archery club members that must have done it!!!!!!
As far as I know when it came up at parliament to find out if bowhunting in the UK should be banned. The man who was to stand up for bowhunting with a paper with 8000 names on it, was waiting for so long that he had to go take a pee and in that 5 mins, the matter was called up, no one was there to stand up for bowhunting so it got banned in the UK........
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