Letter from an incredulous Managing Director on the numerous hunting accidents that are affecting the hunting community ...
Dear Hunting Passion Readers, due to the continuous hunting incidents that occurred in the last hunting days, this Newspaper was not visible on the internet for a weekend and the user of the Portal had in response a blank page on his pc, because WHEN EVERYTHING ENDS, IT ENDS FOREVER..
For some time we have been raising awareness of the attention to the handling of firearms, the use and action of hunting which must always take place responsibly and in compliance with the basic, ordinary and extraordinary rules in the handling of firearms.
Today, after more than a decade of work and efforts in informing you every day, we as our colleagues, who together with dedication, ethics and love for hunting, carry on the hunting journalistic information in Italy, Today, we realize that all this it didn't help ..
The efforts of the doctors in trying to save a young life hanging on a faint hope were useless, the advice of the Capo Caccia in setting up the wild boar hunts, because they, like the other participants in the hunt, remained involved in fatal hunting accidents.
Hard is the fate, which at times cynical and cheating, takes away a person who is not a hunter, a hunter, a colleague or worse still a child, and even harder is our editorial reaction in knowing that the greatest number of accidents of deadly hunts are taking place in Sardinia, a land that binds me of origin and that I have in my heart, where I keep Dear and Friends and I can only observe in a distinct and absent way the unpleasant "primacy" in serious facts such as the news that is making a passion a means of death.
For two days we decided to obscure ourselves, against our interests, our business and our information duties, and our readers well know that when they accessed Caccia Passione, on the other hand, they found a blank page, and no more than two million and a half of pages that you consult a month on our newspaper, because when everything ends, everything really ends.
I do not want to believe that we hunters do not have the foresight to always verify that a moving bush can be a wild one, because it certainly is not, as it is synonymous with that it only hides something inside that we are not able to see. clearly and it is INSANE to shoot you inside.
Afraid of losing the moment?
No !, it can't be true, we don't want to believe it, because we miss the moment we have been waiting for, see the wild go away and not catch fire, it is not a bad thing, but a good thing, if there was no certainty of the shape or that the shot could guarantee the taking only of the wild and in total safety, because, “balentia sarda”, traditions and adrenaline have nothing to do with it e one cannot make the unconsciousness of one make the collective pay.
Even crazier, the unpleasant boar hunting ritual, the use of staves, banned, banned and extremely dangerous and with devastating effects, both in range, pattern, radius of action and in the certain bounce on earth and rocks, since nine of them are contained in a lead cartridge, they immediately change direction, becoming insidious towards posts, beaters, dogs and strangers to the beat, this happens in Italy, but with greater custom in Sardinia.
We do not want to believe We who have fought so much, with continuous requests to the Region of Sardinia, to grant the Sardinians the use of the Canna Rigata during boar hunts, instead continue to load their shotguns with, first shot at single ball and second or third buckshot. Very serious, unacceptable and that the Capo Caccia, should immediately exclude from the hunt the hunter / unconscious and without love towards the community, who violates the Laws and report it to the competent Authorities.
But even the individual Hunter MUST report it, because it is INSANE to have such an irresponsible batting partner and even more INSANE is not to make those who have the sanctioning competence adopted.
This editorial team, so because it does not understand but realizes that hunting accident can happen when firearms are used and therefore mistakenly thinks that "the show must go on" (the show must go on), but realizes that it is not, because the show of hunting, of love for nature, environment, dog lovers and the outdoor world, can only go on if there is responsibility and love for what you do.
If the weapons are not to be used immediately, they must be left, not only on safety, but OPEN in case of side-by-side or over-and-under shotguns and unloaded in case of semi-automatic. (At least cross the first cartridge on the bolt, making it impossible to shoot). The safety locks only the trigger, in the event of a fall, the weapon fires.
All rules that we all know. But all rules that few observe.
Confident that at least these words and facts in having obscured our newspaper, have sensitized your hunting habits and behaviors and that they can stop, or at least limit, the Hunting Accident,
because when it all ends, everything really ends..
Pierfilippo Meloni.