Ken Fortenberry wrote in
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Scott Seidman wrote:
rw wrote:
Cheney is a pig of a "hunter." He has a history of shooting scores
of farm-raised birds in canned "hunts."

Fair is fair. Game birds are alot fewer and farther between in NY
State, at least, than they were two decades ago. Many hunters enjoy
wing shooting in similar environments, as its the closest that they
can get to the real thing. It's not like it's a fenced-in deer
facility.

Yeah, but it's not like real wing shooting either if the ones
in New York state are anything like the ones here in Illinois.
Around here you pay for X amount of birds, X amount of birds
are taken out of their pens and planted in a field, and X
amount of birds are shot, one way or the other. They may as
well be fenced in for all the chance they have. I won't hunt
pheasant at one of those places.


FWIW, in NY many farms go by birds released, and don't guarantee a take.
There are plenty of escapes, no fences, and in many areas the escapees
help keep pheasant pops up in surrounding and public areas. Some farms
also help out with NY State stocking programs.

Is the farmed game hunt all that different from hunting for stocked
pheasant in a publicly announced Wildlife Management Area? Perhaps a
game farm is a good environment to train a dog in? I'd also think it's a
good way to get used to finding injured birds that have gone to ground,
which aren't always easy to find. Some might consider the farm hunt to
be a good way to involve young hunters (not me-- no attention span, no
hunt!).

Farms also play a role in distracting yahoos from the real wild birds,
and probably keep real habitat from becoming depleted.



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Scott
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