Bill to ban "captive hunting" passes the RI Senate: 2024 update
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The Preserve in Richmond to which IM referred has 3500 acres. It appears as though it offers bird shooting. Not sure what else. Never been there- never would go there.
PS A lot of people new to RI are surprised to learn that you can buy homes here that come with 4 or more acres of land. We are far from wall to wall- praise the lord
The Preserve in Richmond to which IM referred has 3500 acres. It appears as though it offers bird shooting. Not sure what else. Never been there- never would go there.
PS A lot of people new to RI are surprised to learn that you can buy homes here that come with 4 or more acres of land. We are far from wall to wall- praise the lord
I actually have been to The Preserve. I went to a whiskey pairing event at the Double Barrell steakhouse last year for part of a bachelor party (we didn't hunt). Not my speed, but it's a five-star family resort that offers a couple of traditional bird hunts per year as one of many resort activities. It's not a "hunting retreat" like this.
In any case, the whole property might be 3,500 acres, but it's not even remotely similar to the "high fence" hunting TaxPhD is referring to which are thousands of acres dedicated specifically to hunting. The vast majority of The Preserve's 3,500 acres are divvied up amongst normal resort activities like golf courses, hiking trails, an equestrian center and trails, off-road vehicle courses, fishing areas, etc. The bird hunting area a a small fraction of that (just 12 fixed shooting stations). They do 5 hunts per year. Thousands of acres of private hunting land isn't something that's going to happen in RI.
The Preserve in Richmond to which IM referred has 3500 acres. It appears as though it offers bird shooting. Not sure what else. Never been there- never would go
A bill to ban captive hunting In Rhode Island. “Captive hunting” is defined in the legislation as a hunt that occurs within a structure designed to restrict the free movement of animals and prevents the animal from escaping. The bill has passed the senate this year & the prospects look good for Slater's bill in the house. Thank you Defenders of Animals. The news article is from an earlier failed legislation attempt in 2021.
A number places still do traditional fox hunts too (I think mostly without the actual fox hunting now). My wife has done several with a group in Vermont (horses, traditional attire, hounds, but no actual guns or fox hunting).
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with Rhode Island? It's the smallest state in the nation and one of the most densely populated. "Thousands of acres" of enclosed land for hunting isn't realistic in Rhode Island regardless of what the laws are.
The point isn’t to quibble about the size of various operations, but rather to make it clear that such hunting operations, even in states like RI where such large land holdings don’t typically exist, aren’t like what most people envision when they hear “canned hunt in a fenced-in area.” You can easily have a hunt that is for all practical purposes “fair chase” on pretty small parcels (think a few hundred acres). Are there operations that are akin to shooting Bessie the cow in her two acre pasture? Sure. But they are few and far between. I believe you’d be hard pressed to find many in RI that even remotely meet that description.
Weren't captive hunts on reserves a Royal tradition in Britain?
To the best of my knowledge, high fence, captive hunts have never been a tradition with British royalty. Instead, they would hunt large estates that were actively managed for wild game production, and actively protected from poaching by game keepers.
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