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Are you up to it?
These are considered “soft” grouse.

I'm sorry that your thread has become derailed because, like you , I love the sight of the sport as shown in the video. However, apart from the fact that shooting that moor was banned in 2018 so the date on the film is questionable, the issues surrounding it are personal. I live just over the western horizon shown in the video and worked on and around the moor for tens of years. A convicted animal rights law breaker called Luke Steele from Ilkley was the driving force behind getting his Marxist followers to relentlessly lobby the labour Council to end shooting there. At a stroke, all aspects of grouse shooting and moor management were wiped out. It may look like a pretty traditional picture in the film, but, this happened just six years ago and to the people concerned the wound is still open. This probably isn't the best place to raise these issues but, to me, the video was more than a traditional/historical shoot image. It was a painful elegy .
Blue Remembered Hills
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Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

A.E. Housman

The left destroys everything it touches.

Best,
Ted

Try to enjoy the videos.
Everything in life is not just a red versus blue thing. If you want people to post Content, that is actually double guns and sporting related, you might want to think about that.

It gets tiresome.

Why would anybody want to post videos about exciting wing shooting with double guns, when all it does is boil over the latest social affront?

I’m going to try to get myself a few days on Irish woodcock and worry about something else.

Enjoy the video, there is no shooting up there now, banned by the Labour Council !! I was a ranger in that area for years and the moor was kept well in balance with heather burn and predator control allowing a perfect habitat for all sorts. It was the only place where I could regularly see Merlins nesting. Now its becoming rank overgrown heather full of foxes and crows with the ever increasing risk of more fires which will wipe out everything. Shame on them for their class war being pushed further and further into the countryside.

….In the name of justice and equality, which is code for class warfare and retribution

You literally posted a video of something that has been outlawed, and are telling us to enjoy it, without regard to the despicable way it was stolen from humanity?

You might want to give that some more thought. I wake up pretty happy in the morning, typically, and don’t get good and POed until I realize they really don’t want me to quit hunting, they actually would prefer me dead. They would prefer that for you also, you just don’t grasp that yet.


I object, by the way. One day, you will, too. There exist bellwethers in life that you should not ignore.


Best,
Ted

I understand the former ranger, a dude who lives there, telling me you can’t shoot there anymore.

I understand it when he says the area is unkempt and unfit for anything save crows, and foxes.

I understood when I got a great gunsmith to work on the guns I imported who told me “England wouldn’t have him anymore”.

It seems sad to me that another, similar, video isn’t likely to be produced on the same grounds, anytime in the future.


Best,
Ted

In case my ship comes in and I can afford such a shoot, I'll be keeping my last eight gauge. Yup, just in case.

The video is enjoyable. But it's all intertwined with current happenings. You should know and understand that. It's not a "red vs blue" thing CZ, it's right vs wrong, good vs bad, dark vs light. Most of us here have the eyes to see that and the ears to hear it. Try to awaken to what's happening right before you.
JR

You are quite correct CZ. I did enjoy the video and thanks for posting. I generally do not participate in “political”-type threads because they give me a headache and they always degenerate into awfulness. But as our fellow sportsmen and , country sports in general, in the UK are under constant pressure from the Labour Left, I am compelled to support those being affected.