Ear to the ground 8.30 rte2

greenpeter

There doing a bit on vermin control tonight.
RTE1

poulo6.5

greenpeter wrote: »

There doing a bit on vermin control tonight.

its on RTE 1;)

endasmail

yea ,impressed with that
viewed us in a good light
wonder did ya man shoot that fox at that time ? camera crew and all following

greenpeter

Was good for anyone that lamps alright,
Looked a bit staged but got the point across.

poulo6.5

greenpeter wrote: »

Was good for anyone that lamps alright,
Looked a bit staged but got the point across.

that was obviously staged the fox was as stiff as a board when the got over to it.
and i can just imagine a fox sitting there while a film crew followed them around;)

jap gt

agree with that, no way did he shoot that fox, no sooner had he the rifle to his shoulder he had fired, and the presenter was a pure fool with the lamp any fox with in shooting distance was well gone

johngalway

poulo6.5 wrote: »

that was obviously staged the fox was as stiff as a board when the got over to it.

Soon as yer man touched the fox on his back the entire back leg shifted, he'd been dead ages.

snipe02

http://www.rte.ie/player/#

greenpeter

johngalway wrote: »

Soon as yer man touched the fox on his back the entire back leg shifted, he'd been dead ages.

Were you working behind the scene:p

deeksofdoom

Who would have thought that someone would actually be staging something for the telly, next thing you know they'll have programmes with actors and everything on it.

What is television coming too? :rolleyes:

johngalway

greenpeter wrote: »

Were you working behind the scene:p

Packed him in ice and sent him North by courier last week :P

Eddie B

snipe02 wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/player/#

Thanks for that, i missed it earlier!

declan1980

endasmail wrote: »

yea ,impressed with that
viewed us in a good light
wonder did ya man shoot that fox at that time ? camera crew and all following

could you imagine if they actually filmed a fox getting shot. there would be war in the morning with the anti's

Birdnuts

johngalway wrote: »

Soon as yer man touched the fox on his back the entire back leg shifted, he'd been dead ages.

Nice lookin gun though;)

yessam

had to be staged alright, but all the same it showed the shooting community in a positive way, so we should hope for more of this kind of publicity..

Cass

Have to agree that it was a good report.

The lads on the programme were polite, mannerly, spoke well and not "gun-ho". The fact the shot was staged is of little importance, i think it goes better in our favour that they did not show a "graphic" kill shot. Shows how important a roll hunters play in vermin control.

poulo6.5

The lads on the programme were polite, mannerly, spoke well and not "gun-ho". The fact the shot was staged is of little importance, i think it goes better in our favour that they did not show a "graphic" kill shot. Shows how important a roll hunters play in vermin control.[/QUOTE]


I agree it did come across well. It's positive media. Nothing wrong with that
It migh even convince some of the anti's after all the telly said so.

Birdnuts

The Dept of Agriculture needs to get the finger out and provide every sheep farmer in the country the phone numbers of the nearest Gun club in their area - no one does vermin control better!!

Tackleberrywho

Birdnuts wrote: »

The Dept of Agriculture needs to get the finger out and provide every sheep farmer in the country a .223!!

:D:D

Jonty

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

:D:D

That would be doing us out of a job Tack!!

johngalway

I wonder did he cover the floor of that fox trap.

Tackleberrywho

Jonty wrote: »

That would be doing us out of a job Tack!!

No, I'd buy a few sheep and get a Free Rifle, Score!

johngalway

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

No, I'd buy a few sheep and get a Free Rifle, Score!

Price of sheep this year you'd be better off paying twice the price of the rifle, would work out cheaper!

Tackleberrywho

johngalway wrote: »

Price of sheep this year you'd be better off paying twice the price of the rifle, would work out cheaper!

A neighbor up the road just installed ~100 sheep in a 45 acre field up the road.

Might go for a ramble tomorrow night!

If Ear to the ground keeps putting up stories like this I will stop calling the programme "lug in the Muck"

kildare.17hmr

wonder if all the anti fox shooting crowed will still think the fox is cute and cuddly after seeing the little lambs who have such bother with them! Good bit all the same

johngalway

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

wonder if all the anti fox shooting crowed will still think the fox is cute and cuddly after seeing the little lambs who have such bother with them! Good bit all the same

They will come out with the same old tripe as always.

Foxes cause a minority of lamb losses - true. But this convientely avoids and distracts from the issue, which is rogue foxes. All foxes have the ability to become rogue foxes who can and will kill many lambs per week.

Farmers should house/pen up ewes for lambing. This is fine in a perfect world (or if you work for Teagasc ), except sheds, extra feed, hay, straw and carriage for all the above costs real money.

The farmer is to blame, bad husbandry etc. Again, this distracts from the issue at hand, rogue foxes.

They will use studies to show that foxes don't kill lambs. I can tell you that farmers - who are portrayed as extremely tight - will part with hard earned cash for me to shoot foxes for them.

If it's bad husbandry, that's a dumb thing to do