Hunting with Bow: Umbria, AICA, the Italian Association of Bow Hunters, replies to the affirmations of the councilor Granocchia regarding the possibility of hunting ungulates with the bow.
We read with great amazement the declarations, released in the press, by the former provincial councilor of Perugia delegated to hunting Franco Granocchia, regarding the regional provision by which the bow hunting also in Umbria. We are really surprised by the fact that Granocchia shows all his ignorance regarding the various national laws that, over time, have regulated and regulate hunting in Italy. If Granocchia knew them, he would know that hunting with a bow has been a form of hunting permitted in Italy for 50 years now. It is also very strange, in our opinion, that his sudden interest in a typology of hunting that we can define as "niche", especially if it is put in relation to his almost total inactivity, at the time of his mandate in the Province, towards so many issues that concern the vast majority of hunters, such as the control of opportunist species, the buffer zones, the provincial wildlife plan and more.
Perhaps Granocchia, who today takes sides with the Lav in the collection of signatures against bow hunting, in the last five years was already engaged with the same anti-vivisection league ... This would explain everything, starting with his having done nothing for hunting. when he had right, duty and authority. Moreover, it should be remembered that the same Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Ispra), in its "guidelines for the management of ungulates", includes the arc among the hunting means useful for management, and that therefore the effectiveness of this tool cannot be questioned by personal and technically incompetent opinions.
And again: Granocchia talks about poaching, moreover nocturnal, linking it to selective sampling with the bow, The Italian Association of Bow Hunters, sectoral of Federcaccia, points out how all this is highly damaging to the image of the hunter in general , as well as not very respectful of the legislative principle itself, since poaching, in addition to being a crime, is notoriously practiced with firearms - a typical 22-gauge kipplauf carbine, not very noisy - or the crossbow, instruments totally different from the bow.
The latter, on the other hand, precisely because it is not very noisy, is already used in many situations in which the shot is not appropriate, for example in vineyards or near houses in the hilly suburbs, places very frequented by ungulates but impossible to handle with a firearm. In support of what we affirm, for years we have been showing public administrators technical-informative material, also used in teaching, where the set of certain technical-ballistic data and eloquent videos made while hunting, demonstrates the absolute effectiveness of the instrument and, at the same time , the total bias and inconsistency of the disputes advanced by those who are against it on pure principle.
Aica and Federcaccia are available to anyone who wants to examine the material.
Louis Farinelli
AICA contact person for the Umbria Region
Federcaccia Umbra Press Office
(13 August 2014)