Seal cull

NoNameRanger

NPWS are announcing a cull on Grey seals all round the Irish coast for the month of July 08. €20 for every seal ear posted to the customs house before the 10th of August 08. It is not permitted to shoot the seals with Rifle or shotgun. Seal harpoon guns with blood line only are permitted and the seal must be finished off with the traditional seal club. Hurleys and baseball bats are prohibited. Permits available at post offices from July 1st. All carcases must be delivered to designated collection centers shown on permits.

AckwelFoley

This is great news.

Ive been clubbing those slippery bastrds for years.. just for kicks!

Now i can get money?!

Good times!!

Xavi6

Finally, Whacking Day is upon us!

And no Barry White to come spoil the fun either!

AckwelFoley

The thing is.. just because they are so "cute" some arseholes will be enraged...

What about the fishermen? They are los'in a lively hood because of all the spotted salmon they are eating on them.


Man i cant wait.

We should have a boards meet.. go out lamping seals.. and crushig seal eggs to..

Xavi6

This should be moved to Animal & Pet Issuses

johngalway

Xavi6 wrote: »

This should be moved to Animal & Pet Issuses

Title of this section is Hunting, it's appropriate here.

Rovi

Xavi6 wrote: »

This should be moved to Animal & Pet Issuses

NNR has already tried it there, but no-one's bitten yet.

NoNameRanger

Rovi wrote: »

NNR has already tried it there, but no-one's bitten yet.

I caught a beauty!

Xavi6

NoNameRanger wrote: »

I caught a beauty!

ROFL! Yes you did!

NoNameRanger

Did ya see this one?:D
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=55542243#post55542243

pullandbang

NoNameRanger wrote: »

Seal harpoon guns with blood line only are permitted and the seal must be finished off with the traditional seal club.

Is it ok to spin for them using treble hooks? Another thing, those yellow handled hammers in Lidl are great value and ideal for clubbing them when you land one. Usually only takes 6 or 7 blows.

bunny shooter

stevoman

NoNameRanger wrote: »

NPWS are announcing a cull on Grey seals all round the Irish coast for the month of July 08. €20 for every seal ear posted to the customs house before the 10th of August 08. It is not permitted to shoot the seals with Rifle or shotgun. Seal harpoon guns with blood line only are permitted and the seal must be finished off with the traditional seal club. Hurleys and baseball bats are prohibited. Permits available at post offices from July 1st. All carcases must be delivered to designated collection centers shown on permits.

Hi No name. Im interested to know the reasoning behind a cull on grey seals as a matter of interest. im just wondering what damage they do. Im from the midlands so this is news to me

pullandbang

stevoman wrote: »

Hi No name. Im interested to know the reasoning behind a cull on grey seals as a matter of interest. im just wondering what damage they do. Im from the midlands so this is news to me

You have to see the damage to believe it. They eat the seaweed from the rocks which leaves them bare and exposed to the lashing waves. This is causing massive coastal erosion. According to experts, the East coast of Ireland will disappear by ten past twelve on June 14th 3016.
This cull needs to take place as a matter of urgency.

Just because you live in the midlands don't think you'll escape....the coast is slowly creeping in towards you. In fact seals have been spotted trying to negotiate the locks on the grand canal.

stevoman

pullandbang wrote: »

You have to see the damage to believe it. They eat the seaweed from the rocks which leaves them bare and exposed to the lashing waves. This is causing massive coastal erosion. According to experts, the East coast of Ireland will disappear by ten past twelve on June 14th 3016.
This cull needs to take place as a matter of urgency.

Just because you live in the midlands don't think you'll escape....the coast is slowly creeping in towards you. In fact seals have been spotted trying to negotiate the locks on the grand canal.

Damn those seals:)

RKMG

is this actually serious, there was nothing on the site about it

stevoman

i think we got april fooled! damn, thats about the 8th time today. yes... i am quite the fool!

Mellor

stevoman wrote: »

i think we got april fooled! damn, thats about the 8th time today. yes... i am quite the fool!

We got foolled, speak for yourself, :D:D:D

tiny-nioclas

AH MAN! i was delighted when i saw this, seals are the worst type of vermin out there, they ruined my(and thousands of others) career in the fishing industry.... i was laughing at that muppet mcCartney lastweek hugging the seals in newfoundland, what a muppet! good joke though.... definately got me!

bunny shooter

We ? Some were awake this morning !:D

RKMG

My dad has been fishing and they have taken the mackeral off his line when he was reeling them in!!

meathstevie

RKMG wrote: »

My dad has been fishing and they have taken the mackeral off his line when he was reeling them in!!

Someone should have told him to use a bigger hook and your ma woulda had a fur coat:D

meathstevie

pullandbang wrote: »

You have to see the damage to believe it. They eat the seaweed from the rocks which leaves them bare and exposed to the lashing waves. This is causing massive coastal erosion. According to experts, the East coast of Ireland will disappear by ten past twelve on June 14th 3016.
This cull needs to take place as a matter of urgency.

Just because you live in the midlands don't think you'll escape....the coast is slowly creeping in towards you. In fact seals have been spotted trying to negotiate the locks on the grand canal.

That's no problem, someone on radio 1 said the earthquake in England a couple of weeks ago has driven up a chunck of tectonic plate that's going to bridge the gap between Ireland and Brittain about two days before your date
anyway.

chem

I hear the government are going to do something like this with the dead seals bodies out on bray beach:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_t44siFyb4

AckwelFoley

..to behonest i dont give a styte..

Ive already gone and got my clubs and hooks.. im headin down to waterford on saturday to hammer the blubber out of some of those leathery fookers

It wasn't me!

snyper wrote: »

..to behonest i dont give a styte..

Ive already gone and got my clubs and hooks.. im headin down to waterford on saturday to hammer the blubber out of some of those leathery fookers

Godspeed sir! :pac:

NoNameRanger

Snyper busted me straight away last night and i thought the game was up. Boy did i crack up when i saw this:

stevoman wrote: »

Hi No name. Im interested to know the reasoning behind a cull on grey seals as a matter of interest. im just wondering what damage they do. Im from the midlands so this is news to me

Then along came::)

RKMG wrote: »

is this actually serious, there was nothing on the site about it

And finally Tiny got all excited at the toughts of revenge:)

tiny-nioclas wrote: »

AH MAN! i was delighted when i saw this, seals are the worst type of vermin out there, they ruined my(and thousands of others) career in the fishing industry.... i was laughing at that muppet mcCartney lastweek hugging the seals in newfoundland, what a muppet! good joke though.... definately got me!

Thanks lads for being good sports:D

stevoman

NoNameRanger wrote: »

Snyper busted me straight away last night and i thought the game was up. Boy did i crack up when i saw this:


Then along came::)


And finally Tiny got all excited at the toughts of revenge:)


Thanks lads for being good sports:D

glad to be a lauph in your expense NoName! Beware of me next year!:p

maglite

wont it be funny when people start sending in seal ears, one per seal of course,

with return addresses

NoNameRanger

maglite wrote: »

wont it be funny when people start sending in seal ears, one per seal of course,

with return addresses

Christ! that would be funny:D:D:D
Here's the ears from that seal i killed please send the cheque/ summons to the address supplied.

Of course they will get some looks when they turn up at the post office looking for a permit.:D But they will also have to get past the antis protesting outside the post offices:D

quackquackBOOM

i hadn't got my pocket knife so i just sent the seal up by courier:D

pullandbang

meathstevie wrote: »

That's no problem, someone on radio 1 said the earthquake in England a couple of weeks ago has driven up a chunck of tectonic plate that's going to bridge the gap between Ireland and Brittain about two days before your date
anyway.

Now this throws up an interesting question. If we join up with the "Mainland" where does that leave fox hunting?

What happens if a fox in Bettystown legs it across to Liverpool during a chase?

Will our hunt be allowed to follow given that hunting is banned over there?

Hmmmm....

IRLConor

pullandbang wrote: »

Now this throws up an interesting question. If we join up with the "Mainland" where does that leave fox hunting?

What happens if a fox in Bettystown legs it across to Liverpool during a chase?

Will our hunt be allowed to follow given that hunting is banned over there?

Hmmmm....

I'm sure people have thought about this re: hunting near the border. I'm sure that the answer is an emphatic "No, you may not hunt across the border".

It wasn't me!

Presumably you don't have explicit permission to hunt on the land anyway. Don't lead a hunt anywhere you don't have explicit permission to go. If it's not legal to hunt there, you don't have legitimately given express permission to do so, and shouldn't be there.

ancienthunter

I was looking around this forum because I have an interest in shooting, and I found this post. I think that it's such a pitty that people have not really "got the idea" of hunting and instead have some other twisted interest as generally explained by the nature of this post. Us as human beings are in competition with nature and nature is in competition with us, we have it a lot easier though and to accept this on a basis that it affects people's livelyhoods is wrong because they are only turning against the very things that keeps it all going like seals do.

I have an interest in hunting and it did'nt arise from an urge to kill but rather a choice. I wanted to know what it would be like to get your own food. taking its life is not enjoyable nor unenjoyable it just is and yet I still have a respect for the very meat it gives. Everyone should be able to enjoy this privelige but they can'nt, because the world is unnatural the way we live today.


Hopefully that will change, in our uncertain future. I hope our future generations will still be able to give thanks for the meat they receive.

It wasn't me!

I think you missed the very much tongue in cheek nature of the post. Check what day it was started on, might give you a hint.

ancienthunter

fair enough, I just dont like jokin about this because I think I'd like to see people getting into hunting for the right reasons,I'd like to see people changing their attitudes and providing real reasons for this sport and being role models. Maybe if they like hunting then they can give up modern life's luxury's and get back to nature. Less is more I think, life is just too complicated these days and its harder mostly for your mind which is worst still. Unfortunately hunting is expensive and restrictive like so many other things in this country are, unless your a property developer!

pullandbang

What?
You mean we can't go skull crunchin':mad:

Damn...........

AckwelFoley

ancienthunter wrote: »

fair enough, I just dont like jokin about this because I think I'd like to see people getting into hunting for the right reasons,I'd like to see people changing their attitudes and providing real reasons for this sport and being role models. Maybe if they like hunting then they can give up modern life's luxury's and get back to nature. Less is more I think, life is just too complicated these days and its harder mostly for your mind which is worst still. Unfortunately hunting is expensive and restrictive like so many other things in this country are, unless your a property developer!

Yes because a second hand rifle and a box of .22 are "expensive" :rolleyes:

Look at the amount of ppl that can afford a Playstation at some 600 odd euro.

We dont say playing playstation is restrictive.

damo03

Well i have invested in my seal bashing equipment and i shall not be wasting that money it will be the last time the hooers take my mackerel.:D April fools is long gone and im the fool that carries it on.:D

wetdogsmell

scuba gear and an under water chainsaw is the way to go, the bastarding seals killed my uncle (he did look like a sea trout):eek:

maglite

Ahunter

have you seen a seal?

try taking the ears of this



note that lack of them, it was a joke

tiny-nioclas

seals have tiny little ears around the size of a thumbnail, you could fit around200 in an envelope

wetdogsmell

it takes over 300 seal ears to make a decent sandwich, mmmm salty

NoNameRanger

ancienthunter wrote: »

I was looking around this forum because I have an interest in shooting, and I found this post. I think that it's such a pitty that people have not really "got the idea" of hunting and instead have some other twisted interest as generally explained by the nature of this post. Us as human beings are in competition with nature and nature is in competition with us, we have it a lot easier though and to accept this on a basis that it affects people's livelyhoods is wrong because they are only turning against the very things that keeps it all going like seals do.

I have an interest in hunting and it did'nt arise from an urge to kill but rather a choice. I wanted to know what it would be like to get your own food. taking its life is not enjoyable nor unenjoyable it just is and yet I still have a respect for the very meat it gives. Everyone should be able to enjoy this privelige but they can'nt, because the world is unnatural the way we live today.


Hopefully that will change, in our uncertain future. I hope our future generations will still be able to give thanks for the meat they receive.

Seriously, I started this as a fools day prank, i really didn't expect it to continue on. I posted it on the Animals and pet issues forum too and it was all taken as a bit of a wind up and if you read the entire thread it is very obvious. I do agree with you on your ethics of hunting though as most of the lads here would. Good to have you on board(s):):D Its was fools day! you have to take the p1ss!:D Roll on 1st april 2009;)

It wasn't me!

You're going to have to up the ante next year it would seem NoNameRanger, you set the bar high this year.

pullandbang

maglite wrote: »

Ahunter

have you seen a seal?

try taking the ears of this



note that lack of them, it was a joke

Oh thats a seal?
Sh1t, what have I been bashing on the head with my Lidl hammer then?:eek:

ancienthunter

I like seals to be honest, I was diving with them a few times their like the dogs of the sea.
"tuna is the chicken of the sea" quote from that dimwit what's her name

they are very intelligent, and they are protected, seals that is and they are guarded by our navy.

So I hope no stupid person who is mad with them does anything bad.
And I think studies have been done to prove that the seals acuatly benefit the local ecosystem by hunting the larger predator fish which kill alot of the staple catches by fishermen. Besides the point.

I've found a few of them on our local beaches shot, if only I found the person who did it, I'd bend the barrel around their necks.
Anyway! good one you lot had me going!!

Thanks for welcoming me to boards

pullandbang

ancienthunter wrote: »

I like seals to be honest, I was diving with them a few times their like the dogs of the sea.
"tuna is the chicken of the sea" quote from that dimwit what's her name

they are very intelligent, and they are protected, seals that is and they are guarded by our navy.

So I hope no stupid person who is mad with them does anything bad.
And I think studies have been done to prove that the seals acuatly benefit the local ecosystem by hunting the larger predator fish which kill alot of the staple catches by fishermen. Besides the point.

I've found a few of them on our local beaches shot, if only I found the person who did it, I'd bend the barrel around their necks.
Anyway! good one you lot had me going!!

Thanks for welcoming me to boards

Don't think you'll find anyone here would harm them. From what I've seen everyone is genuine and passionate about their hunting and their quarry and their love and respect of wild life.

You just happend to join in on the wrong post!:)