You've rather captured some of it. In those communities hunting is taken as
a fact of life. You need the tools to do the job. Stone age man figured out
it was more productive to use a bow than to chase the damn thing and if you
caught it beat it to death.
As I said it's not for me. But any of us who eat meat have to acknowledge at
each meal some animal's bought it to please our appetites.
Here in the East we have as many as four seasons for deer: bow (cross or
compound); black powder (enthusiasts shooting reproduction 18th and 19th
century weapons), shotgun (with a large slug but short range, where
population density makes rifles too dangerous) and rifle. So those all have
to be sold somewhere.
But I imagine you are quite right. The access to weapns is fundamentally
different and must seem quite shocking.
SC
----- Original Message -----
From: John.Blessington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.gov.uk
To: UK Tree Care
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: Deer protection
Bill
I've disturbed a roe whilst checking a very grassy replant site. Almost
trod on the damn thing before it took off at terrific lick. It was tiny
though, about the size of a small lab. Bet yours was a fallow.
I think you have to go to the States to realise how fundamentally different
it is. I was in St Louis a few years ago and in their equivalent to Tesco
was a whole isle dedicated to heavy duty hunting kit (3 barbed crossbow
bolts, Teflon coated for better penetration etc.) squeezed between the
light bulbs and the washing up liquid. They even had a gun counter though
that was half covered by glass. And as for the hunting shops, well they're
a war zone, yet no one thinks anything of it. I'm just amazed anyone
survives at all, I'd hate to think of the consequences in ASBO ridden
Blighty.
John
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