Post by allyn on Apr 20, 2011 1:33:13 GMT 1
About time this topic was revived. There is more tosh and b******t talked about hunting than almost anything on any forum. I am in Sud-Manche, so can only speak for what happens here, and in particular in my locality. During the season, hunting is banned on Fridays, and Sundays and Thursdays seem to be the preferred days. There are 2 reasons for this. My own local hunt only allows hunting under its hunting rights on those 2 days (plus public holidays). I can only hunt on someone's land if I am exercising the hunting rights of my local hunt, or if I am authorised by the landowner. I don’t have the right to hunt wherever I want to. As I don't know all the landowners in the area, it seems logical to stick with the local hunt's hunting rights. I was under the impression that most hunts choose the same days throughout Normandy, if not further afield. Maybe some chose other days. Why Sundays? For the simple reason that most working men do not work on Sundays. And in France hunting is a pastime for working men and landed gentry alike. Most, if not all of the men I hunt with, work for a living or have retired.
There are 2 noticeably different types of hunting. Individuals, or small groups going out on an un-organised hunt; and organised hunts, battues, where large numbers turn out, usually with dogs, with a specific objective eg deer, foxes or wild boar . This is when you see people wearing orange waistcoats standing round apparently doing nothing. They are waiting for the game to be driven toward them. It may never come. I have been out with maybe 30 men (on odd occasions a single woman) spending a whole morning seeing nothing. We then have a meal together and enjoy our companionship. You see hunting is not just about shooting animals. it is much deeper than that.
In my area we are very safety conscious. I think most hunters everywhere are. Most stories about domestic animals and people being endangered are untrue, some are simply lies. Sadly. a small minority are true. A mix of UK and French government figures show that you and your children are more likely to need hospital treatment because of accidents in the home than for any other cause, including road accidents. In France the number of people injured by hunting is very small. There are 60 million people in France, probably one and a half million chasseurs, and between 14 and 40 hunting related deaths every year. These include people who fall from hunting platforms, have heart attacks or die from other causes whilst hunting, as well as those who are accidentally shot by themselves or their companions. The number of people not involved with hunting who die, or are injured, because of hunting accidents is extremely low. I mean something in the order of 1 or 2 a year. Too many, I admit. But in any human sporting activity, is the accident rate so low. Horse riding kills many more. So does boxing, skiing, etc. Road accidents kill thousands, so do accidents in the home. It's a matter of perspective. I could say, if your house is not the safest place in the planet for your children, don’t criticise others. Your children are far more likely to die or be seriously injured because you leave them un-attended without necessary medication, with frying pans, pans of boiling water, irons, unsafe electrical sockets, dogs that you previously thought were totally safe, cars that you never would have thought would have burst into flames, etc, etc.
Until you think you are perfect, think carefully before you criticise hunting.
There are 2 noticeably different types of hunting. Individuals, or small groups going out on an un-organised hunt; and organised hunts, battues, where large numbers turn out, usually with dogs, with a specific objective eg deer, foxes or wild boar . This is when you see people wearing orange waistcoats standing round apparently doing nothing. They are waiting for the game to be driven toward them. It may never come. I have been out with maybe 30 men (on odd occasions a single woman) spending a whole morning seeing nothing. We then have a meal together and enjoy our companionship. You see hunting is not just about shooting animals. it is much deeper than that.
In my area we are very safety conscious. I think most hunters everywhere are. Most stories about domestic animals and people being endangered are untrue, some are simply lies. Sadly. a small minority are true. A mix of UK and French government figures show that you and your children are more likely to need hospital treatment because of accidents in the home than for any other cause, including road accidents. In France the number of people injured by hunting is very small. There are 60 million people in France, probably one and a half million chasseurs, and between 14 and 40 hunting related deaths every year. These include people who fall from hunting platforms, have heart attacks or die from other causes whilst hunting, as well as those who are accidentally shot by themselves or their companions. The number of people not involved with hunting who die, or are injured, because of hunting accidents is extremely low. I mean something in the order of 1 or 2 a year. Too many, I admit. But in any human sporting activity, is the accident rate so low. Horse riding kills many more. So does boxing, skiing, etc. Road accidents kill thousands, so do accidents in the home. It's a matter of perspective. I could say, if your house is not the safest place in the planet for your children, don’t criticise others. Your children are far more likely to die or be seriously injured because you leave them un-attended without necessary medication, with frying pans, pans of boiling water, irons, unsafe electrical sockets, dogs that you previously thought were totally safe, cars that you never would have thought would have burst into flames, etc, etc.
Until you think you are perfect, think carefully before you criticise hunting.
and is the "norm" 
Speak to your mairie and the ACCA and get it sorted.
