Hunting mammals with more than two dogs is illegal but the legislation was introduced specifically to stop foxhunting. It failed.

It is still legal to use dogs to flush foxes from cover to be shot.

Using dogs to catch hares (coursing) is now illegal.

Using dogs to flush birds to be shot is unrestricted.

An observation on shooting deer in the head with a small calibre bullet - the head shot is not used in the UK, as 'best practice' favours a heart/lung or neck shot. The rationale being that if you miss that left eye by a fraction, you blow off the poor thing's jaw and it runs off to die miserably. Just too easy to be that fraction off.

Last edited by Small Bore; 11/05/08 05:57 AM.
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