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Tim Watts wrote:
On 03/05/15 11:36, Nick Maclaren wrote:

There are plans to release bears and wolves too.

I take it you jest?

Because if not, I'm getting a shotgun license.

As someone who has lived in environments with dangerous predators,
and who has experience with shotguns, that is, at best, clueless.
If you really want to **** off a large animal, pepper it with shot.

Yebbut the law prevents me from carrying anything much more substantial.

That'll be why in parts of Canada my relatives will take a gun on a walk
into the woods.

There are only two dangerous wild animals the bears and moose.
If they are such wimps as to be afraid of the infinitesimal risk,
and such idiots as to believe a gun is useful protection, then
they should be carrying at least a 0.3" calibre high-velocity
rifle. Anything less will simply enrage those animals and, even
with that, all of the evidence is that carrying a gun INCREASES
your chances of being killed by one of them!

However, most Merkins and many Canucks ARE idiots, and Brits
are deliberately kept pig-ignorant about guns :-(


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.