Complaint from neigbour

Call me self righteous on this issue if you want Tahr, but I draw no parallel between sharing my legal pest control war on obnoxious Plovers or any other pest on a special interest forum to flagrant disregard for all and every law those guys broke when they were spotlighting for deer from a vehicle on public land without even a DoC hunting permit who failed to identify their target and then had the insensitive audacity to plead not guilty to manslaughter while the husband and family were facing the horrific loss of their wife and loved one.

As for 'perception', I agree with you. As with anything and everything I post online, I do it with a degree of trepidation as I weigh up the prospect of people who perceive it in a way which may be abhorrent or offensive and how they might react. Or to put it a different way, consider the consequences. Which is why I made the comment about that incident in particular as it was very public on national media news

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Originally Posted by Hunt4life

Call me self righteous on this issue if you want Tahr, but I draw no parallel between sharing my legal pest control war on obnoxious Plovers or any other pest on a special interest forum to flagrant disregard for all and every law those guys broke when they were spotlighting for deer from a vehicle on public land without even a DoC hunting permit who failed to identify their target and then had the insensitive audacity to plead not guilty to manslaughter while the husband and family were facing the horrific loss of their wife and loved one.

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Are you commenting about the Mears case ? He pleaded guilty at the first opportunity. He did something unbelievably stupid, but every time he appeared in court, looked completely devastated, and took his punishment like a man. The other guys in the vehicle may have pleaded not guilty... not sure.

The "law" is not on the side of anyone using a firearm in a way that could be seen as a nuisance.

The simple solution to the issue above would have been some door knocking and checking that all the neighbours were ok with shooting on the property.

Yes the Mears case. Splitting hairs a bit and getting off topic, but if I'm wrong and that he pleaded guilty, then I retract that, but that's not the way I remember it happening.

As for asking all the neighbours... That would be a very PC thing to do and is highly likely, anywhere in the country/world, to get at least one neighbour say they don't want shooting anywhere near their property. What then? Say "oh, ok. I'll go and shoot somewhere else then." ??
Where?
It's a very difficult subject as people feel so passionate on each side. If you ask permission from someone you don't need to ask permission from, they object and decline permission but you go and shoot anyway, you're likely to get an extreme reaction. I totally support the notion we, as gun users, need to be highly respectful, safe and considerate of all others, but everyone else also needs to exercise tolerance for things they don't support, like or agree with. I am not about to ask for permission from neighbours to discharge my firearms on my own land in the country. Instead I have suggested they just need to ask that I abstain if they need me to for any particular reason, such as horses in the yards or stable etc. Works for us anyway.

He definitely pleaded guilty at first opportunity.

What's this got to do with beetroots scenario though? :D

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Originally Posted by JoshC

He definitely pleaded guilty at first opportunity.

What's this got to do with beetroots scenario though? :D

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Nothing!

Well it's been 3 days now and heard nothing.
I spoke to an ex police officer who said that the police CAN'T act on information that is a month old and there thoughts are if it was serious they wouldn't have left it that long.

Thanks for the opinions though, helped keep my head clear.
I usually try do everything I can to give shooters a good name, but I'll have to really think about it now. But some people will never be happy, so I won't get hung up on it.

If anything does come of it, I will keep everyone informed in someone runs into the same problem.
Cheers

Thanks Beetroot. Good on ya mate.

I shoot at a property where there is a border that is just trouble if I go anywhere near it. I'm so careful where I shoot, but some stupid asshole from over the hill decided to send a .22lr towards the landowner when She was up a ladder fixing Her roof. She's so worried about my target shooting now. Much harder to explain its safe when we have no real idea where the bullet came from but it must have been close. No report and then a 'buzzy bee' sound as it zipped past Her. Its not the first time its happened too.

She's got an arse-hat neighbour somewhere that's for sure