Sad state of affairs.

that is wrong yes but no reason to give up an honest and fuin sport, just because a few kids without licences decide to go on a rampage. going shooting rabbits etc is a harmless sport, and it shouldnt be tarred with the same stick as youths with air rifles, as i said hunting with an air rifle doesnt hurt anyone
 
What a shame! i bet the guy that runs the Tea wagon is absolutely livid!!

Such a shame.. iv got a few more pics of him.. i'll have to do something to them..
 
fraggle theres a job for when you retire, open a tea wagon and you can take photos when no customers of the landscape :)
 
:annoyed: this has really annoyed me, effin lowlifes, i have seen pics of this stag before and wanted to see him sometime if i was out that way.

i just hope that these idiots get whats coming to them, or hopefully it already has.

he looked so friendly too.
 
That's terrible :( I can't understand why anyone would want to do that :shake: But also I can't help feeling the only truly respectful thing would be to not shoot animals at all.
 
Well its on quite a few forums, poor stag was friends with many people, Bikers, Car Rallies, Tourists - his only crime was to trust man and for the most part his trust was rewarded. If I were the ones that did this I would be very afraid and not of a life behind bars the strength of feeling is massive, it will get out, they will get outed, somewhere there will be CCTV, somewhere someone will know something.

I just hope the Police are taking this seriously.
 
Somebody (kids?) shot our 6 month old kitten with an air rifle. Found it bled out, and dead, under my bed. Still makes me angry to think about this.

Police did nothing, they were more worried about my dad and I going for retribution.

But someone had "fun". To$$ers.
 
Ashers said:
fraggle theres a job for when you retire, open a tea wagon and you can take photos when no customers of the landscape :)
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Well, id like to live in that area!!
 
cressers said:
Somebody (kids?) shot our 6 month old kitten with an air rifle. Found it bled out, and dead, under my bed. Still makes me angry to think about this.

Police did nothing, they were more worried about my dad and I going for retribution.

But someone had "fun". To$$ers.
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Thats always the way! we had trouble with teenagers a while back, we had to call the police and all they were interested in was ME!!! for the same reason..
 
see people are quick to jump on the ban guns completly bandwagan, but that would be just the same as saying ban all cameras, you would be taking away peoples hobbies, i think what would be better would be teaching young people about the consequences of their actions, and about what misusing a gun can do.
 
Air rifles should be classified firearms IMO,and licensed accordingly.
 
Those who did this are scum................ I hope they have a slow and painful death and sooner the better :bat::bat::bat:
 
You know something, the more i read about this, the angrier I become. Many castigate people who are involved in country sports, this incident in Scotland is something totally alien to me,something that I cannot understand for the life of me, what sort of "people" get kicks out of crap like this?

At least when we shoot them,they die very,very quickly, these idiots tortured that animal.
 
Strip 'em naked, give them 10 seconds' head start then hunt them down over the Scottish moors with paintball guns - but here's the twist! Fill the paintballs not with paint but with deer pheromones...
 
fracster said:
You know something, the more i read about this, the angrier I become. Many castigate people who are involved in country sports, this incident in Scotland is something totally alien to me,something that I cannot understand for the life of me, what sort of "people" get kicks out of crap like this?

At least when we shoot them,they die very,very quickly, these idiots tortured that animal.
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I may not like shooting for sport [shooting live animals that is, as opposed to clays, targets, etc], but when its done by experienced guns it is the most humane form of hunting imo and if the prey ends up in the pot and enjoyed all the better. I can see a reason for it, liek any sane reasonable human being, I cannot for th elife of me see any reason for this cruel, nay, barbaric 'entertainment' and I can understand that those that take part legitimately and responsibly in shooting should be rightly outraged.
 
I seen him last summer whilst visiting glencoe area He was a fine animal content & very trusting , just kept looking around not fearful at all. There is some evil people about.
 
And if the stag had defended itself by attacking them? it would have been hunted down and shot..... can't win
 
I'm really upset. My wife and I stumbled across this stag on our holidays this summer and had our pics taken with it. We'd just pulled over to look at the view and to our surprise was this stag wandering at the edge of the carpark. He was beautiful, with felt still hanging from his antlers.
 
Can't believe i'm reading this ,shoot a stag with an AIR RIFLE:eek:,what moronic effort of a human would attempt to shoot a stag with an air rifle.God the poor beast ,that makes my blood boil !!!!!! .If i'd my way ,i'd tie the *******s to a post out in the middle of a duloch out on the west coast, on a nice balmy September evening ...... and let the midges eat them alive :clap::clap::clap:
 
Guns are tools, not toys. They don't make a boy into a man.
The people who did this are are not animal or mineral they are vegetable.
 
I'm appalled to read this - totally disgusted. The 'mentality' of those who perpetrated this crime is sick, disturbed, and deranged, and I'm afraid no amount of licensing or gun control will stop vermin from doing sick things. Proper application of the law as it stands MIGHT, but we'll never know as full tariff sentences are not handed down consistently. Instead we have idiotic politicians who think that introducing bans and legislation will give them the publicity and popular support they crave. Short-termism at its worst. That only hurts law-abiding, trained and self-regulating gun users, and the industry that manufactures, supplys and maintains the products.

No pussyfooting about - full tariff jail sentences and hit the market traders and dodgy shops that peddle cheap Chinese copy air weapons to lowlife (they still will even if they are banned/licensed). The same goes for the blade carriers. This really annoys me, I was taught how to shoot responsibly and safely by my dad 30 years ago, and I only shoot rabbits and woodpigeons that are going in the pot. Every gun owner I know has the utmost respect and care for the environment and wildlife. I hope the police get these *******s soon:bang:
 
i agree. i love rabbits and birds, and the things i used to shoot and still would shoot, if we still owned the land, and i always tried for a clean kill. and ate whatever i killed. these arnt proper gun owners i doubt they had a licence, and they saw an easy target that couldnt fight back.
 
Ashers said:
i agree. i love rabbits and birds, and the things i used to shoot and still would shoot, if we still owned the land, and i always tried for a clean kill. and ate whatever i killed. these arnt proper gun owners i doubt they had a licence, and they saw an easy target that couldnt fight back.
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But, it still sounds like you enoyed the kill.......... :razz: You might have owned the land? but you don't own the wildlife :p
 
yes i enjoyed it. but i dont enjoy torturing animals needlessly. and killing your meal is much more economical than getting it from a supermarket.
 
Ashers said:
yes i enjoyed it. but i dont enjoy torturing animals needlessly. and killing your meal is much more economical than getting it from a supermarket.
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Just exactly what part of the killing did you enjoy...........? :thinking:
 
the satisfaction of knowing you have caught your own food. of hunter over prey
 
Ashers said:
the satisfaction of knowing you have caught your own food. of hunter over prey
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I'm sorry Asher, but as poetic as you make it sound, shooting a deer with a high calibre rifle from a minimum 300yds with a high sensitivity telescopic sight is hardly..........erm...."caught"

Gc
 
well you dont like it but many people do. and its nothing like what those cruel kids did. just because you dont like it doesnt mean its bad.
 
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