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buddy bradley · Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Location: The Beyond

Has anyone gone bird-hunting on Cheju Island? I'm sure I saw an ad on Arirang TV where it showed that one can rent rifles and go shoot some birds.

I'm just curious if anyone has done this as it looks like a ton of fun.

tommynomad · Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Location: on the move

Brace yourself for Rapier, Kermo and/or Gwangjuchicken in 5....4....3....

burnin rubber · Joined: 16 Feb 2005

yeah, I'll get in on that one. I miss bird hunting back home. Even running around the neighborhood whacking chickens in the head with sticks was a blast. (Man, they have some thick skulls!) Be prepared to pay a lot though, I thought about shooting at Lotte World one time but the bullets are damned expensive.

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

It may surprise you to know that I am a former hunter myself, a poacher turned gamekeeper you could say....started with a catapult as a toddler, then graduated to air rifle as a teenager. (Nice try B.Bradley:)
It is only justified in traditional societies that live in balance with nature and have long depended on harvesting birds etc for their livelihood, or where the birds are shot for sport in a controlled quotas, where the habitat is protected.
The average macho man who just wants to kill something is an idiot...however, many such people actually start to appreciate what they are hunting and thereafter become enthusiastic conservationists.
And of course, due popularity of wildfowling in the U.S, large areas of habitat are set aside and protected. Likewise the Moorland/heaths that Grouse depend on rapidly vanished with the demise of shooting in N.England. Generally speaking, if you preserve the habitat, the wildlife will always be there.

Perversely, many people are against hunting per se, but happily welcome development that totally destroys the habitat and places where wild birds live.

Its a complex issue: it certainly shouldn't be allowed in somewhere like Korea where every last scrap of wetland is in the process of, or about to be trashed forever by careless development projects..not to mention that certain species are very sensitive to disturbance.

Nowadays I would never go hunting: and I hope people seek to protect nature & birds simply because they are an important and incredibly beautiful part of the web of life, the ecosystem.

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

At my high school in Bundang, we've got those big, ugly white/black birds that are nearly as big as crows.

Oh, how I'd love to shoot those things with my little single-shot 20 gauge from back home... fun, fun, fun! Cool

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

W.T.Carl · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

The magpie is the national bird of Korea, hense it has been and always will be protected. Korea used to have some of the best small game hunting in the world, and probably still does in the more remote areas. Koje Island was (and maybe still is) excellent ringnecked pheasant country, as is the Haman Valley.

coolsage · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:00 am Post subject:

So, as a vistor in this land, you think that you can feel free to shoot down any migratory bird that appears in your general direction? Do you have any sense of the fragile state of the wild bird population in this country? If you feel the need to kill something, join the seal hunt in eastern Canada, where sentient mammals are being clubbed to death as we speak. Or, go fishing. At least the quarry has a fighting chance.

W.T.Carl · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

The ringnecked pheasant is not a migratoy bird. And if you are licensed to hunt, what is wrong with it? And maybe if you got out of the city you might just find that Korea isn't the industrial waste land you make it out to be. Only an urban soddomite would class what is done to baby seals a hunt or even compare it to wingshooting a pheasant.

The Bobster · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

W.T.Carl · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

The last tiger was killed in the 1920's. However, there were reports of snow leopard up along the Yalu river. I take it you have never been wingshooting? Don't knock it unless you have tried it.

The Bobster · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

GUNS GUNS GUNS! KILL KILL KILL!

KILL THE BIRDS, KILL THE BIRDS!

AHAHAHHHAHAHHHAHAHA!

Twisted Evil

There, I feel better now.

I hope one craps on your car.

W.T.Carl · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Why would I want to kill a tiger? Are they good to eat? I think not. However, if there were many in my area and they were eating my friends and their children, you bet I would. Wouldn't you? By the way, last night I helped a neighbor knock off a coyote that was raiding the area and killing small dogs, cats and the odd chicken. Anyway, what does killling tigers have to do with wingshoot pheasant, which by the way, are quite excellent to eat and not an endangered animal?

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Birds and wildlife everywhere are under severe threat now. We are rapidly losing the diversity, the wild places where they can live, because of mankinds destruction and alteration of the natural environment.

Hunting birds is a selfish and pretty unfulfilling hobby- when you could be getting much more enjoyment from working to try and protect our nature for future generations. Try it!