Hunting Bunting, Tracking Dogs and Total Carnage

Firing line debate.

This episode is, should we change field sports to country pursuits and drop the whole sports part of it.

What do you think? There's a lot of uproar, isn't there? 'Cause people say, "Oh, it's not a sport, it's..."

Well, also, as soon as you say the term sport, people forget the, the element of the pursuit and presume that the entire thing is done purely from a sporting, fun-

Yeah

... non-management element.

And you could use that for anything.

I mean, c- field sports, underneath that comes obviously you've got your traditional hunting with hounds, you've got your shooting element, you've got your rifles as in driven shooting, rifle shooting, working gun dogs.

All of it sits...

Or fishing, to be honest.

Yeah.

Everything sits under that field sports bracket.

But as soon as you put sport in, is it viewed...

Does, does that element negatively affect us when viewed by an outsider looking in? 'Cause if you say sport, people just think, "Oh, well, they're just doing it for, for the crack of it." And people say, "Well, you wouldn't shoot that bird 'cause it's not sporting."

Mm-hmm.

That's als- like, but you wouldn't because it isn't sporting.

Yeah.

And you want the bird to be a better bird, but does it then also throw a negative shade on us because people think, "Well, they're only doing it for the sport."

Yeah.

It's really, I-

It's-

I think the term sport just does not, not necessarily help us.

It doesn't help it, no.

Because like you say, for the people that are naive and not in country life, they, like you say, it does give it a bit more of a bad name, I think.

Because they just assume that it is all just for fun and all about killing and just numbers, numbers all the time.