Sergei Gotsmanov

Hursley and Hambledon I think.

Proper country types are dieing out especially where we are in the south as houses in villages get bought up by commuter types and villages are no longer working villages. It is a great tragedy. We are losing the people that really know about the countryside; I can never claim to know as much as they do but I will try to make sure my children do. Part of it is just being out. To be honest I love stalking but not that fussed about pulling the trigger. I like just being on the hill or in a wood. What people do not understand is that today stalking is all about taking out the old stag, the smaller nobber or the scruffy hind to make sure that the stock is healthy.

243 but to be honest normally out to get on top of the rabbits. You must be quite confident of a fox arriving to where you are waiting because whenever I have been lamping you are mobile. To be fair if you are waiting then a .22 would do the job but I would be amazed if you never wounded one - should you be training for 2012?

It is far more complex than that. My assumptions are based on watching people like Simon King and Bill Oddie who often show a naivety in their subject. If you commute to the countryside to look at widlife you will know less than people who live and work in the countryside. Those people are actually quite rare. A lot of the people who hunt are pretty awful but in the main they are not. These are tight knit communities and have rights as well, you have to understand it is a way of life. It is part of your identity and probably why so many turned up to protest in the big CA marches. Whay upsets me is that they are portrayed as not being compassionate.

Well I go lamping twenty or thirty times a year and would never use a .22 for foxes. I can only base this on my own experience. Your motor must have a very quiet engine to get that close to a fox.

Then that really is barbaric. You are not going to kill a fox with a .22 unless you are within twenty-thirty yards. Ask yourself why it is illigal to shoot a deer with a .22?

Do you think BTF that if you grew up with a family that hunted and all the people around you hunted and much of your everyday life revolved around hunting you would feel that people who are totally disconnected from the hunting scene have the right to tell you that you and your community they are barbaric? Speaking personally, although I have hunted since childhood I have more knowledge, understanding and respect for the natural world around me than any of you lot. Death in this world is a daily experience and so inevitably I have a different attitude to it.

awful. Looks like a lottery ball.

Very sad. Puts things into perspective.

It is not about what you think it is about whether people should enforce their moral believesonto other people. I say no and no again. One day somebody will decide they do not like something that you do. It is about the right to choose to live your life how you like.

What sort of gun did you use VFT?

People involved with livestock do not see animals in the same way as you might because you have become detached from the reality of slaughter. I think you devalue the cause of liberating people from apartheid, the advances of gay rights, slavery etc by putting a ban on fox hunting on the same level.

I think there is a big gap between animals and humans. If you eat meat then so do you.

I am not trying to persuade you that killing for fun as you crudely put it is acceptable. I just find it strange that you are so interested in what other people do when in reality it has no impact what so ever in your life. This is a common theme of the left, this instinct to interfere and to meddle.

I am sure you are a good bloke Fuelgirola Saint but I just cannot understand why you and others have to judge everybody and what they do? If you do not like something then do not do it but why are you so 'vehemently opposed' to something that you really have no understanding of. Read Hemingway and at least educate yourself before jumping to such strong views.

As I expected. As with others on the left you are motivated by chippyness and hatred. I bet they love you in Spain when you go about telling them their bull fighting is so wrong. Actually I suspect you rarely leave the confines of your little world to sample the culture that surrounds you. Broaden your mind mate and be free.

A fox is not tortured to death. Another person who falls into the trap of not bothering to see a fox hunt and meet the people involved before making passionate statements about something they are not qualified to talk about.

Well they were split when they voted in 2005.

He would be very unwise too. Actually he would probably get it through as a lot of the liberals are against banning things that is why they are called liberals.

The tedious self righteousness of the left. Always preaching tolerance unless they do not agree. As I say freedom is a very precious thing.

I think you are right, it will be a healthy check on less savoury Tory ideas. Will ultimately collapse when they have to debate the far more unsavoury offerings from Europe.

So you have not been on a fox hunt. What then gives you the right to have such strong opinions or is it prejudice? It is about a respect for people and their culture. I highly reccomend you read Siegfried Sasson's diary of a fox hunter. Anyway we are straying from the point of civil liberties and how Labour have no regard for our basic liberties.

I expect to develop these strong views you have been on a fox hunt. Typical attitude of people who want to ban the burka becasue they do not understand somebodies culture.

You must live in a different world John. Have you not seen the CCTV watching your every move. The fact that the government now keeps enormous amounts of data on you. The end of the jury. The right to hunt foxes, the right to smoke in somebody business. The right to freedom of speech, the rright to emploty who you like etc etc etc