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[purdey]

There are native doves in Cyprus as well as migratory doves. Migration shoots are rare in Cyprus, not so in Malta, Italy and Spain, where they are shot, netted or trapped.

[Nikitas]

It is NOT against the EU birds directive to shoot doves, they are one of the 60 plus quarry species included in the directive's annex.

The issue is about spring hunting and here the EU wants to stop Cypriots, Maltese and sundry other Mediterranean wogs from shooting doves for a week in the spring, whilst they are decimated by poison in the south and kept off crops by noise guns in the north. This is the issue.

[Nikitas]

In the debate above someone said that cars are not like guns which have only one purpose, cars are primarily transportation tools.

Well, I sat last night and watched carefully the car ads on TV and went through the paper ads. The advertising of cars is NOT based on the assumption of a tool primarily intended for transport. The ads stress social prestige, aesthetics, POWER. Programmes like BBCs Top Gear go further and belittlle cars which are primarily transport tools while they keep a league table of "cool cars" and a table of fast cars.

Looking at the ads it is obvious that what is advertised is in fact a weapon, in the same manner that a cavalry horse was a weapon. However the training of drives does not take this aspect into account. No wonder people get killed on the roads in thousands!

By the way, gun adverts rarely use the same underhanded means to sell a gun. Perhaps the gun buying public are too knowledgeable to fall for such crap, which would also explain the very low accident rate among hunters. Prhaps the same safety rules should apply to cars.

[Jerry]

In the debate above someone said that cars are not like guns which have only one purpose, cars are primarily transportation tools.

Well, I sat last night and watched carefully the car ads on TV and went through the paper ads. The advertising of cars is NOT based on the assumption of a tool primarily intended for transport. The ads stress social prestige, aesthetics, POWER. Programmes like BBCs Top Gear go further and belittlle cars which are primarily transport tools while they keep a league table of "cool cars" and a table of fast cars.

Looking at the ads it is obvious that what is advertised is in fact a weapon, in the same manner that a cavalry horse was a weapon. However the training of drives does not take this aspect into account. No wonder people get killed on the roads in thousands!

By the way, gun adverts rarely use the same underhanded means to sell a gun. Perhaps the gun buying public are too knowledgeable to fall for such crap, which would also explain the very low accident rate among hunters. Prhaps the same safety rules should apply to cars.

I think you've lost your marbles Nikitas. Shell shock? You confuse advertising hype with the actual use of motor vehicles. Most people (except the silly boys who cruise the seafronts in Cyprus) use their cars for transport. They don't just leave them in the driveway as status symbols and never drive them.

Top Gear, it's a fantasy programme, most of the cars they test are beyond the means of Mr Average. Its nice to see the engineering achievements of the motor industry but all this kids stuff about 0-60 in 2 seconds and 195mph is a load of bollocks to most of us. Clarkson, what a prick, he parked a Range Rover on top of a mountain and buggered of with the keys leaving the production crew with a big problem. If I had my way he would be condemned to driving an Austin Allegro 1100 (colour brown) for the rest of his life.

[BOF]

lets not get sidetracked here please, the thread is about shooting doves in Cyprus...discuss. pray continue

[purdey]

We all do things that are not always agreeable with others. I hunt, not to feed myself but I enjoy the field craft involved in the process. I genrally eat all I shoot.
We had a great dinner last year in the mountains, hunters from all over gathered. Stories were told, we dicussed guns had a few choice drinks and eat very well.