Awww Joe that's so sweet, you saved a picture of me on your computer. I shudder to think what you do when you look at it late at night....

As far as caling somebody an idiot, I only called you one and you've proven it so many times it doesn't even really need pointed out. Making that grand sweeping statement that all hunting in the UK is like an "optical illusion of what hunting is all about" is so stupid and without merit as to be hysterical.

You've never been hunting over there, all you know is what some other idiot told you while leaning on the stove at the feed store.

It's not all tweed caps, Purdey shotguns, and driven pheasants. For the regular blue collar folks it's shooting wild game under similar condition to how we shoot it here. Even the driven shooting is something to be admired if it's done right, at least much more than the put and take shooting like we have here.

They don't just turn those birds out of cages 15 minutes before the guns start going off. By law they can't be penned up after they're a few weeks old, they're raised running loose just like wild birds. They feed them and do major predator control to keep them from wandering off to the next farm. It's a science how it's all handled and run. The amount of effort that's taken to put on a good driven shoot is incredible compared to the put and take game stuff that's run here.

So yeah, I'll definitely stand by my statement that you're an idiot.


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