Veem
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Post by Veem on Sept 12, 2021 8:48:38 GMT 1
I just heard the first two shots from a hunter's gun. I hope the animals will soon get used to hiding again. 6 months to go.
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Post by lapourtaider on Sept 12, 2021 9:56:09 GMT 1
Only just? Here it started 15 August.
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Post by houpla on Sept 12, 2021 19:33:52 GMT 1
Very little activity here and never had a problem with hunters. The paloumayres are something else, though! Being surrounded by little parcels of woodland, it's like living in Beirut between October and January. I suspect that there's a Freudian connection with the size of the guns they seem to feel necessary to blast a pigeon out of the sky  On the bright side, they frequently fall out of their Wendy houses after 6 pastis too many, and break their necks. |
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Post by Veem on Sept 12, 2021 19:39:25 GMT 1
I don't understand what 'paloumayres' and couldn't find a translation either. I assume perhaps it's some type of independent hunter?
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FFS
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Post by FFS on Sept 12, 2021 19:56:29 GMT 1
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Post by Polarengineer on Sept 13, 2021 6:13:02 GMT 1
I'm in two minds about this hunting business. From my track camera film, it is clear there are a lot of wild boar about and the farm next to my field has already had boar plough up the fields. I have to spend a lot of time maintaining an electric fence to keep them off of my bit of grassland. The boar need controlling, but not the way it is being done here. The hunt actually feed the boar to entice them to their area and keep numbers up for their own "pleasure". Judging by the number of shots ringing out, I would guess that the hunter's aim is a bit off, or they are there just for the bang. The ruined grassland next to mine belongs to the hunt president, so some come-uppance there. It is French, it is the culture and that is part of why I'm here.
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Post by houpla on Sept 13, 2021 7:48:19 GMT 1
I don't understand what 'paloumayres' and couldn't find a translation either. I assume perhaps it's some type of independent hunter? Sorry, Veem! I couldn't think of a direct translation. It's a regional thing. Old frenchmen who build Wendy houses high up in the trees and live in them, partying and enticing, then blasting blue pigeons. |
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Post by Aardvark on Sept 13, 2021 9:40:18 GMT 1
I guess they're safer up there, less likely to shoot each other like they do when they walk around below shooting each other and random dogs, cats, mushroom pickers.
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Post by houpla on Sept 13, 2021 18:53:15 GMT 1
Don't you believe it! I've been menaced (nonchalantly, it's true) for walking through the nearest little wood looking for mushrooms. They've got signs up all over the place 'SILENCE - Palombière', but they've got TVs and stereos in the huts FCS! As for the detonations.....no rules re. hours or days, unlike the chasse. Strangely, every year one or two Wendy houses go up in flames. Gascon rivalry, apparently |
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Post by Veem on Sept 13, 2021 18:56:44 GMT 1
So when they do actually hit a pigeon, they presumably come down from their Wendy house to pick it up. What then? They can't cook it in their treetop accomodation surely. Or are they truly that stupid ...............?
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Post by ibis on Sept 13, 2021 19:04:59 GMT 1
So when they do actually hit a pigeon, they presumably come down from their Wendy house to pick it up. What then? They can't cook it in their treetop accomodation surely. Or are they truly that stupid ...............? Maybe that is why "they go up in flames"...
You could also say the same about people who go into the woods looking for fungi during hunting season...
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Post by FFS on Sept 13, 2021 20:07:58 GMT 1
So when they do actually hit a pigeon, they presumably come down from their Wendy house to pick it up. What then? They can't cook it in their treetop accomodation surely. Or are they truly that stupid ...............? Maybe that is why "they go up in flames"...
You could also say the same about people who go into the woods looking for fungi during hunting season...
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Post by houpla on Sept 13, 2021 20:54:21 GMT 1
So when they do actually hit a pigeon, they presumably come down from their Wendy house to pick it up. What then? They can't cook it in their treetop accomodation surely. Or are they truly that stupid ...............? We're talking in the hundreds, if not thousands, depending on the flight paths. They cook and eat them (yes, all mod cons in the Wendy houses...in every sense of the words ) then they sell them, conserve them etc. When you consider how much of the poor bird is actually left after being blasted with a b***y great rifle, I suppose they need a lot of them to make a meal This ties in neatly with the recent discovery that the French have a colossal taux of heavy metals compared to other European countries. And yes, I think it's safe to say that they are truly stupid! But, who am I to criticise the habits of the French? It's only between October and January that I really wish I lived in Paris  |
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Post by houpla on Sept 13, 2021 20:56:54 GMT 1
Maybe that is why "they go up in flames"...
You could also say the same about people who go into the woods looking for fungi during hunting season...
Miaow! Scratch! Aren't there some nice, American ex-pat forums out there just waiting to be discovered?  |
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Post by Veem on Sept 13, 2021 21:28:55 GMT 1
I imagined these Wendy houses to be tiny - like a child's Wendy house. But you're giving the impression that they're pretty sizeable. Big enough to eat, sleep, cook, do ablutions (?) and that there's a market for them? Can you post photos?
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On the bright side, they frequently fall out of their Wendy houses after 6 pastis too many, and break their necks.
