Dean,
That's a pretty high horse you're riding on there pal. Different strokes for different folks and all that my friend.
They're a big trophy in the few areas that you can still hunt them. Guys travel a long way for a small chance at a shot. The roost stalking is a very traditional way to do it, been done for as long as there have been guns I'd imagine, and probably even before firearms.
Here's an example of the different strokes for different folks thing. One evening, several years ago in Scotland, I and three other guns killed 40 widgeons over a baited pond after sunset shooting lead shot and I used an 8 gauge for part of it.
The next day those ducks were taken into town and sold to the game dealer for cash. If something like that happened here in the US, and the game warden ran onto you, it would make the national news. Outside of Aberdeen it's just another evenings shooting to the local wildfowlers.
On that same trip I shot geese under the light of the moon with an 8 gauge and lead shot. On a trip to Northern Ireland once we lamped rabbits at night shooting a rifle that had a silencer on it out of the window of a land rover.
Same deal, done here in the US, it's jail time. In the UK it's just how they do things. Are you saying that the boys over there aren't sportsmen then as well?
So yeah, lets cut the capercallie gunners some slack huh.....
Destry
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