Probably not an issue for UK paddlers

[gasserra]

http://www.cpakayaker.com/forums/viewto ... f=1&t=6810

[maryinoxford]

Using the butt end of a loaded semi-auto rifle as a paddle blade to roll up with is to be discouraged by all safety-conscious paddlers.

[Erling]

I'm just being curious; are kayaks not being used for hunting in the UK? Over here, outdoor people will occasionally combine kayaking and sea bird hunting (ducks, cormorants etc).
http://www.nettavisen.no/friluftsliv/article771509.ece

[Jim Tait]

I'm just being curious; are kayaks not being used for hunting in the UK? Over here, outdoor people will occasionally combine kayaking and sea bird hunting (ducks, cormorants etc).
http://www.nettavisen.no/friluftsliv/article771509.ece

Wildfowling over here is done with shotguns and usually quite heavy loads- I wouldn't want to be in a kayak at the same time!
Only a few species of ducks and geese are legal quarry, and then between 1st september and 20th Feb.

Jim

[soundoftheseagull]

Those weapons would be handy for the Jet ski season

[mark62]

What does cormorant taste like? Or are hey hunted for other reasons?

[Erling]

I have to confess I've never tasted it, but according to the article I linked to it tastes more like beef than like sea bird. The meat is claimed to be dark, coarse and juicy. Got to try it if I get the chance, personally I don't hunt though.

[Jim]

I'm just being curious; are kayaks not being used for hunting in the UK? Over here, outdoor people will occasionally combine kayaking and sea bird hunting (ducks, cormorants etc).
http://www.nettavisen.no/friluftsliv/article771509.ece

Most hunting in the UK is not done by outdoor people, but by rich people (plus culling by farmers)

Our cissy attitude to firearms probably means that most normal people will never get a chance to try it beyond shooting clays or paintballing friends, and so the younger generations lose the link to where food really comes from....

[shep8361]

What does cormorant taste like? Been there, done that - and not in a hurry to do it again.

On the way home from Iceland in the mid-80s, I stopped over in the Faroe Islands. There I met a guy who had crewed the Brendan, a traditional hide boat that had been used to test the theory that Irish monks could have crossed the Atlantic in the 5th century. Anyway, I was invited into his house for a roast dinner of freshly-caught puffins, kittiwakes and cormorants. As I recall, the puffin was actually quite tasty, like a fishy-tasting quail; the kittiwake was so-so; the cormorant tasted pretty much like they look. I'd have to be hungry to eat one again!

[ian the badger]

Most hunting in the UK is not done by outdoor people, but by rich people (plus culling by farmers[quote][/quote]

That's bollocks

[EK Sydney]

Wear the Foxs Hat....?

[jmmoxon]

Coypu (nutria is Spanish for otter) used to run wild around Norfolk, so it used to be an issue, but they were apparently all culled before 2000...

Mike

[Gareth Plas]

Fabulous,this has made me chuckle......well said Badger.....having said that, I am considerably richer than Yao, Americans....amazing, the few left that can actually fit in a kayak are now shooting critters from them..you could use a magnum round to roll your boat if needed, just rely on the recoil, no need to be a cissy and roll with the rifle butt. God bless America, especially those happy and charitable guys at Orlado airport home security, who arrested my 11 years old daughter last May, and kept us detained for 2 hours....bless them.....

[Owen]

. God bless America, especially those happy and charitable guys at Orlado airport home security, who arrested my 11 years old daughter last May, and kept us detained for 2 hours....bless them.....

Only two hours you were lucky, I spent 36 hours under arrest there once.