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Message: <blockquote data-quote="captaincarot" data-source="post: 2243454" data-attributes="member: 80825">it's entirely different in europe, probably because america isn't old enough to have developed practices like persecution of endangered species, which they can then call cultural traditions.we also have people involved in hunting over here who would happily poison, shoot and trap every bald eagle in america in order to make sure there were plenty of prarie dogs for them to shoot.  obviously the species aren't bald eagle and prarie dog, but it explains the principle perfectlyas for any hunter turning in someone who damages the land or ecosystem, the standard response from the vast majority of european hunters would be along the lines of, what crimes, nothing happened round here, people don't do things like that it's not a problem, obviously hunters don't do such things so it must be the conservation association which works for (insert species and country here) who are doing it to give us a bad name and cause trouble.if a crime actually does manage to get to a court then the barristers in charge of prosecuting the case and the judges in charge of presiding over the case are then likely to be the people who actually own the shooting estate which is being prosecuted, and if not then they've probably been their fag while they were at eaton or harrow together.</blockquote>