OT: The Glorious 12th
 

This isn't about Parkers, but a good portion of us here are hunters. I thought you might like seeing this. If the moderator feels it needs moved or deleted, please do so.

I've been watching this show for a couple of years. I sure wish an American outfit could produce a show of this quality.

This one has it all; Guns, Dogs, Shooting, Habitat & it's management, Wildlife, Tradition, Stunning scenery etc.

Oh how I wish I could experience a day on the moors!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQw8laShM1g

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.

they have done several good shows through the years

Thanks but I'll settle for the northern plains and hills.

Great video! Thanks for posting. I can hardly wait for the pheasant season to open in Nov.

Ken

That was great, thanks. Beautiful country in its own right, very different than what I am used to but nice. A lot of history there. I love the fact that they have gamekeepers and actively control predation, as well as keeping the Heather in the Moors productive by burning it. Reminds me of what we do here to blueberry barons. They to need to be burned to stay productive.

I haven't watched the video thru to the end yet, but know I will enjoy it. Much of both sides of my family originated in Scotland, and I still have close relatives living there (Mull).
When we were kids, my sisters and I would spend between 3 weeks and all summer there. I remember the 12th as well as I remember my birthday.
It wasn't until I was in my 40s, did I actually get to shoot over there (Hunting on Mull was originally only for dwelling landowners) There would be upwards of 400 grouse lined up by the barn before lunch.
I have had somewhat of a 'moral realignment' since then. I know that much of the game are flight pen raised, and it's not entirely different than a pay-to-shoot preserve hunt here, except possibly for the cost and the numbers. I am now troubled by the drive to knock birds out of the air, barely notice whether they were killed cleanly, or were the pickers-up finding them. Driven shoots were akin to "shooting fish in a barrel" on some beats, which shouldn't have been hunted.
As I age, I take a much greater pleasure in watching a single or double rise of a Ruffy, watching a good dog working, and just walking alone in the Maine woods with a good gun and a sandwich in my pocket.
Call me Mr. Softee I guess, but Bruce's picture is more appealing to me, and that's coming from a bona fide Anglophile.

I hunt hard for wild birds and some lucky days limit out, many days not. But hey, it's all on me and my dogs, nobody else.

Thanks Edgar.

Maybe a few blueberry barons should be burnt, even at the stake.... But you probably wouldn't go to prison if you simply burned the barrens...:corn:





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Reports from Scotland say that some estates will not be shooting this year due to low grouse numbers.
This year's weather has not been good and grouse numbers are way down in some areas

may not be our style - but its a tradition in trouble from bird populations and politicians and i wish them well - its a great country with wonderful people in the countryside


my preference will always be a finger lakes/ southern tier ruffed grouse over a setter

but that is more endangered than the red grouse on the 12th