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Bodkins; illegal in the UK?
Cromm:
--- Quote from: Harudath on September 19, 2009, 08:23:44 am ---More often than not, giving an idiot a bow and arrow is more dangerous than handing them to an archer.
If that story abpout 8000 signatures and needing the bathroom is true, I'm goddamn furious. Anyone fancy starting a campaign to get it legalised again?
--- End quote ---
It's already happening here in the UK, it just seems to be taking a long time. There is a lot of people that want to be able to bowhunt, but there is also alot of loud people saying it's wrong to hunt, why hunt when meat comes from the store anyway??? And that kind of rubbish.....
triton:
from what I'm told, it's not actually illegal or legal to hunt with a bow in England. Apparently there is a list of approved hunting weapons and a list of banned hunting weapons. The bow is on neither list. ???
Rod:
Eddie,
Are you saying that you have never left an arrow in the woods?
I know I have and I'm not exactly a slouch when it comes to hitting what I shoot at.
What Grandad had in mind was not that you couldn't take game efficiently with an arrow, but that most folks back then used crested arrows.
If you did not recover such an arrow you might just as well have left a signed note for the gamekeeper. ;-)
He taught me on land where we had permission to rove and take game within reason.
I guess the keepers thought it better to have local eyes on the ground and be warned about foreigners long netting and such than to try and ban a local who was out there more often than they were and would take game if he chose, like it or not, if they were to ban him.
The owner was an incomer anyway. New money from commerce and his family had parked quite a bit of the farmland so there was still some resentment locally, but he had the sense let the head keeper run the game side of things.
Grandad was a yellowbelly, "out of the ground" as Rudyard Kipling once described it, and regarded most of the proprietors in the county as usurping incomers, except for the people over at Bourne who, although they came with the Normans, had settled in and become accepted.
Rod.
stickbender:
Incomers! The Pikers!! ;D ;D
Wayne
mullet:
Rod,
Yea, I've left a few, but not many sticking out of animals. If I did, I trailed them enough to know if I didn't find them nobody else was going to crawl back into that thick stuff to see what the smell was. And a lot of the places I hunt are 7,000 acres or more, dead stuff everywhere every day, mostly cattle ranches. And Most people in the States don't write their names on arrows anymore.
It has got the same here, used to be able to hunt most anywhere but without permission it is against the law now.
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