Re: What's wrong with deer hunting

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:37:03 +0100, Malcolm
<Malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In article <06c8l1puc48co8fgsfsrqnss9squmd9lus@xxxxxxx>,
>amacmil304@xxxxxxx writes
>>On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:02:30 GMT, "suspicious minds"
>><me-and-my.army@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Research in America show that deer collisions rise five fold when the
>>>> shooting season starts and is consistantly higher during the season.
>>>> Some time ago I wrote to Nick Dieter of the Deer Commission asking him
>>>> if similar research had been carried out here; he didn't reply. It
>>>> strikes me that motor insurers should be looking at accidents in
>>>> proximity to stalking estates and making moves to establish the cause
>>>> of deer colllisions. And there is no point in saying that these
>>>> collissions could be confined to the time the shooting took place. At
>>>> other times deer could well be returning to their territories
>>>> following an earlier disturbance.
>>>
>>>Never heard the "dear collision" study Angus or are you conveniently
>>>forgetting it because it does not suit your agenda?
>>
>>Of course I have and during thei consultation I wrote to them. However
>>one only needs to look at the majority of their "partners" to see what
>>their agenda is :-(
>>
>>>
>>>"Most deer related traffic collisions occur October through December,
>>>followed by May. Highest-risk periods are from sunset to midnight followed
>>>by the hours shortly before and after sunrise."
>>>http://www.deercollisions.co.uk/
>>>
>>
>>Gosh really! That's the time shooters kill the most deer; dawn and
>>dusk;
>
>That might be true of some roe deer shooting, but it isn't true of red
>deer, and, as far as road collisions are concerned, the latter are far
>more dangerous for the people in the vehicles.

It can be true of red deer that have been disturbed at other times.


>
>>and just look at the shooting seasons.
>>
>>But shooting other species could also disturb deer and cause
>>accidents. That's one good reason for banning shooting altogether.
>>
>So what "other species" could be disturbed and "cause accidents" by, for
>example, someone shooting wildfowl on the mudflats of an estuary?

There's another reason for banning shooting altogether.


Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk
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