Would you go to jail for your Sport?

[Fox]

Another survey for you all and Saker-sucker.

http://www.countrylife.co.uk/stimes/survey.php

I voted yes Oh yes!

[OhMyGod]

Then what would I do with my birds and stuff, cant take em to norwich with me fox.
ps I see you live near bury, I'm about 3 miles away

[Hawkmaster]

73% say Yes

[Shaun Byrne]

73% of sportsmen putting their sport before their family, sad!!

[OhMyGod]

maybe their whole famalies are sportsmen too

[ColdZero]

i'm too sneaky to get caught. I wouldn't stop if they banned falconry, but i wouldn't risk going to jail.

[Hawkmaster]

I would move!

[OhMyGod]

yup, back to sa hawkmaster

[Ian Wileman]

I would not risk losing my liberty, my job, my family, or anything else for sport. I would simply find another way of enjoying the countryside.

[North East Harris Hawker]

i'd go to court, dont know about jail! :oops:

[Bones]

i'd go to court, dont know about jail! :oops:
Well said but if it had been 10 years ago then prison wouldn't have mattered neither got family now so diff out look on life

[Darren]

i wouldnt go to prision for it....my family & freedom means more to me. Maybe you should try Prision & then tell me you would like to go back

[Bones]

Maybe you should try Prision & then tell me you would like to go back
Take it your cell mate liked you eh DAZ :D :D :D :D

[Bubo]

i would do the same as HM, i would move.

[Hawkmaster]

The USA falconry community just got bigger!
Where else is there to go?

[Darren]

Maybe you should try Prision & then tell me you would like to go back
Take it your cell mate liked you eh DAZ :D :D :D :D

You dont half make me laugh.. :lol:

[Bones]

Don't mind going to prison as long as its local prison to me as they have there own falconry and raptor section for the inmates to go too where they breed certain birds and also man and handle certain birds within the complex
Anyways DAZ you not answered me question did he like you or not or was he just a forcefull sort of guy :D :D :D
PAUL

[Ian Wileman]

I think we need to remain within the confines of common sense on this one folks. We need to be careful that we dont go down the road of the manic 'anti's' that have caused the damage they have in the past, seeing prison as 'par for the cause.' It is one thing standing up for what you believe in....another going down the road of the 'extremists'. At the end of the day, its what matters most to you...and my liberty and livelyhood are for more important to me than coursing a hare with a hound! Especially when I can legally course the same dog at a rabbit without any problem at all. I think till the legal system has taken its full course on this issue, it is simply a matter of picking your prey species carefully and enjoying what sport you can.

[Kevin Massey]

you can imagin the papers !"falconer gets 6 mnts for hunting with a hawk" and maxine carr gets releast on a tag for being a sick ywisted ****H..................

although the uk laws are some times a joke...........i would have to say i could not put falconry above the well being of my family

kev

[Claire]

Its not gonna happen, although I expect things will go more the american way at some point and we will have exams etc before we can buy birds, and I wouldnt say it would be a bad thing.
If it was made Illegal to hunt with birds of prey I personally wouldn't risk prison, but I might consider emigrating

[KestrelFan76]

i would probably not go to jail but it would come damn near close a lot of my friends fly birds and if their going down im going down with them although we would only go to a young offenders institution
on a same sort of note does anyone poach?

[Hawkmaster]

Oh yes WE ALL poach and we all do illegal stuff! (NOT)

Are you mad? That is illegal, nobody here does that, are you an Anti?

[Claire]

even if your harris kills a rabbit on the farm next door's land, If you dont have permission you should leave the rabbit where it is.
Kestrelfan76 your attitude is worrying we must keep everything legal at times like this or we wont have a sport to enjoy for much longer

[KestrelFan76]

im not saying i poach or condoning poaching i was just curious as to if any of you did poach
and any way the surrounding arrea around my land is filled with cattle so unless i nick one of them im not going to

[Gary Timbrell]

Quotation from IAF:

"Falconry is legally recognised in most parts of the world. It is practised in over 60 countries, in many African countries, in most Asian Countries and the Middle East; it is legal throughout America, north and south, and in most of Europe, is accommodated under the Bern Convention and in the Wild Birds Directive of the European Union, where it is practiced in 20 out of the 25 members. It is recognised specifically under CITES/COTES."

There are plenty of places to go.

Gary.