Over here in the UK we have very little (nothing actually) in the mainstream TV media that covers shooting and countryside sports.
Not only does the UK "drive-by media" fail to cover shooting sports in the Britain that used to be Great for hunting, but the tremendous insight generated by their domestic omissions allow artistic license and curious insight into the situation here amongst us rednecks and cowboys of the "Wild West":
"[American]...Hunters like to boast that their sport is as American as baseball and
apple pie, a tradition shared by young and old, rich and poor, conservatives and liberals. But the reality is not so tally ho. The proportion of the population that goes hunting has been shrinking for the past 20 years. The main cause of this is economics. The biggest decline in hunting is taking place among the working class---among the deer-hunter crowd in small towns of the Northwest, the rednecks of the South, and the cowboys of the West. Their places are being taken by moneyed professionals, the sort of people who weren't brought up to hunt, but who have discovered that it is a good way to flash their money and make connections. There are so many
nouveaux chasseurs strutting around the canyons of Manhattan that both Holland & Holland and Barbour have opened shops there."
The Economist, February 2006--quoted in my
Parker Guns: Shooting Flying (2008), in the chapter titled "Apple Pie Versus Spotted Dick." You gotta hand it to the Brits! Makes you wonder what else
The Economist knows about what's happening in the colonies...and "spotted dick"! Not bad stuff. Heinz makes it canned; Google it up and have a good Yuck. EDM
