You need to look carefully in the Bushcraft Survival DVD extras. Ray carves a skateboard from a length of cedar wood using a crook knife. Apparently the technique was used by aboriginal tribesmen in the Exeter area for hunting feral pigeons.
Personally I find scooter works much better, you can get a great swing using the handle. Needs a length of hazel to fashion the handlebars though.
Has anyone had any hunting luck using roller skates carved from pine?
Ha.. ha.. ha.. ha .. that sure has cheered me up after a day of watching kids doing on screen ALAN tests. Someone with my sense of humour
On a more serious note, are pigeons in the towns the same species as the wood pigeon so beloved of farmers?.
They're OK curried. As were the Baron's birds we found in the dovecote of a schloss when on exercise in Germany one time.If he's found a way to make flying rats taste good then I'd like to know it.
A shotgun is a lot quicker, but discharging one in the city center wouldn't of been a good idea either.
Dear oh dear While I don't think its a great idea for teenagers to go battering pigeons with their skateboards, with rays `Wild Food` book under their arm, the response is well over the top.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ath-skateboard-busy-city-centre-home-eat.html
How come its illegal to kill a pigeon in the town centre but legal to shoot one in the countryside, if it is an offense to kill a wild bird?
Still, not bad, to get a hit with a skateboard, the pigeons normally fly when you get within 2 feet, walking distance.To be fair, anyone who goes round belting birds with skateboards deserves a slap themselves. It clearly wasn't a clean kill, and I can't condone that, even for a flying rat.
thanks for clearing that up Red. But one more question -
How come its ok for the bus drivers to run them over then?!!
Just one more example to me, as to why i head to the woods so often, to get away from these sub humans.
Thousands of years of evoluion and what have we developed into - an intelleget species who has clearly used all his brain power available to him and come to the conclusion that its ok to bash an innocent birds brains in with a skate board.
Call them what you want - flying rats ect ect - it just doesnt make it right....
I see too many of these stories these days, hardly a day goes by where you cant find a story about some kid setting fire to a cat or sticking a firework into some helpless family pet where the sun dont shine, I sometimes really am ashamed to be a human being, no other species acts in this way out of shere spite......
No wonder these so called "townies" were upset at seeing this, if you saw this happening and took enjoyment from an act like this, in my opinion youve got serious issues in your life......
Colin.....
I recently sat an exam on countryside law and I paraphrase...
An act is not unlawful if it occurred by accident whilst a person was engaged in a lawful activity
(ie driving a bus on a highway)
There's a fair bit of talk on the thread about how it wasn't a clean kill, wrong tool for the job etc.
But I'll tell you what if you flatten a pigeon with a skateboard it'll be dead quick smart, might not be elegant or 'proper' but it'll be no more or less humane than most methods.
But some buses actually swerve TO hit pigeons, Ive seem `em do it!
I have to agree with you on that one.I see too many of these stories these days, hardly a day goes by where you cant find a story about some kid setting fire to a cat or sticking a firework into some helpless family pet where the sun dont shine, I sometimes really am ashamed to be a human being, no other species acts in this way out of shere spite......
No wonder these so called "townies" were upset at seeing this, if you saw this happening and took enjoyment from an act like this, in my opinion youve got serious issues in your life......
Colin.....