Hunting

[The Subbie]

A few years ago I was working in Devon and was staying in a pub in Dartmoor. I came into the pub after work and there was about 20 gentlemen sitting in the pub with their hunting gear on. Hats and socks with feathers in them. They all sounded very posh. After they left I asked the barman about them and he said that they all come down from London for the pheasant/grouse. Every bird that was shot cost them 200 quid and that they had shot 140 birds that day.

That's a different kettle of fish entirely, this is a driven shoot, its slaughter pure and simple and does not sit well with me & im speaking as someone that shoots.
Shooting round home means you might fire 5 or 6 shells  in a days shooting and get maybe 2 pheasants if you are very lucky , these would be eaten.
The driven shoot boys will possibly let off 150 -200 shells in a day and unless they are brutal shots they will knock down 30 odd each, I don't see the fun in it to be honest , the phesants or whatever they are will most likely be sold onto a game dealer or else just buried, which is wrong.