Originally Posted By: L. Brown
Kyrie, see my previous post on economics, then vs now. On paid driven hunts, the volume one can shoot is limited by money (and by time). I'm well aware that Spain offers paid driven hunts NOW. But we're talking about guns that were made and shot over a century ago, for the most part. And a world that has long since ceased to exist. As in the remark made by a statesman prior to WWI, about the lights going out all over the world, and how they'd never be relit again. In terms of the world before vs after "the Great War", that remark was quite accurate. One thing you get from "Downton Abbey" is a sense of how that world was changing in the postwar years.

Im sure everything you say about England is true. The Great War pretty much put paid to England as a world power, and by the end of the second world war England couldnt even control its own economy. The English monarchy and titled and landed gentry have become something of a hollow joke. Im frankly waiting for the Argentines to reach out and take the Falkland Islands; the British dont have the means to anything about it.
But thats England and not Spain. The Spanish royal family and landed aristocracy still control enormous wealth and equally enormous land holdings. Those estate hunts that used to happen in England in the nineteenth century are still a reality in parts of Spain, on million plus acre estates.