Game shooting is nasty pursuit (From Times Series)

Game shooting is nasty pursuit

11:27am Tuesday 23rd January 2001

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I WAS pleased to read Gillian Lock's letter in Freetime about shooting pheasants for pleasure.

I have always thought this was a nasty thing to do. Gamekeepers are employed by a syndicate of gents to carefully rear the birds and at the same time kill animals in the area that might damage the maximum number of young birds.

Then beaters are employed to flush them out to be shot. Some are wounded and die wretched deaths.

Penn resident

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