| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Frewen Feltmaker |
First rabbit (proud wife moment)Chrispystix shot his first rabbit
Rabbit for tea tomorrow then  
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| Penny |
Well done!! |
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| sean |
In your kitchen? Doesn't seem very sporting.
Congratulations Chrispystix. |
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| Mary-Jane |
Excellent. I love rabbit! I was quite a bit younger when I shot my first...and burst into tears sobbing "Oh God - I've just shot Thumper" 
Didn't last long though. |
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| Jonnyboy |
Good work, enjoy! | ||
| gil |
Nice work. Well done
Mmmm..... rabbit casserole |
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| chrispystix |
Anyone care to hear the tale......Grabs popcorn.
After several trips out and a few rabbit sightings I was pleased to see dark skys and a bit of wind to disguise my heavy feet. I walked across the field to my regular starting point. After attaching the lamp and loading the subsequent "lucky" pellet I started out. I have a favourite clearing not a few minutes walk and made for it directly. Nervously, I took one step after another until I reached a point close enough to where I thought the rabbit would be. With a flick of the switch I cast red light into the clearing and.....Nothing. 
Just as I decided to move on I sweeped the light left and OMG. A bunny. Up on its back legs and side on!!!! Needless to say I hit it. A little low for my liking but still in the head and it died very quickly. A call to my neighbour has the skin and cleaning done and he (as I now know) is ready for the pot. Feel a little mixed. Mostly proud and excited. Its the first animal I have intentionally killed so that is a bit wierd but not without good cause and I have said I will take care of the Christmas Chickens so good prep. Thanks for listening.... |
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| Jamanda |
Well done. You'll enjoy that casserole! | ||
| Penny |
It's an odd feeling isn't it  I must admit I don't like the killing bit at all, but I'm quite happy skinning and gutting the little lovelies
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| kevin.vinke |
Congratulations!
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| vegplot |
Re: First rabbit (proud wife moment)
"And to avoid all that messy paunching business, we're just going to pop it in straight into the oven?" Well done. Hope it tastes good. |
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| Brownbear |
Congratulations. Nothing tastes quite as good as one's first quarry. | ||
| marigold |
Excellent . It's too long since I had bunny casserole...
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| happy |
Channel 4: do you live off the land to save money?To all you brilliant hunters out thereFirstly to introduce myself - my name is Claire Braden and I am a first-time director who has just been commissioned my first half hour film. I am making it about people who are very good at saving money and being frugal. The reason I have come on this site is because I want to find someone who can show me how they largely survive without going to spend money in supermarkets etc. Do any of you know of anyone who largely lives off shooting their own meat and possibly growing their own veg? I want to find a true country man or woman who can take me in to the countryside and show me how to live off the land. I am featuring 4 or 5 people in the half hour film - so it is just a 5 minute portrait of someone who has achieved this way of living. I would love it if you could put me in touch with them. My contact details are tel: 0207 482 5885 or email claire.braden@zkktv.com Thanks for your help - please do let me know about anyone suitable and then they can decide if it is for them or not. Claire |
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| lettucewoman |
Well done!!
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| Frewen Feltmaker |
It made a very nice rabbit pie, crust done with some "ethical" Dove's flour and lard rendered out of Nick's half a pig (thank you Nick) some onion from the allotment and some foraged sweet chestnuts
..and no Vegplot - he knows how to paunch and skin a rabbit - he doesn't see a crate of milkbottles and think its a cows nest
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| Cathryn |
 I managed to persuade my children that rabbit was rather nice after all. Slow cooked with sage. Now got to persuade daughter to take time out of busy social life and come shooting with me. She is a much better shot.
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| Slim |
I'm jealous
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| Rob R |
Mine was gritty. |
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| Brownbear |
Re: Channel 4: do you live off the land to save money?
And of course, it would never cross your mind to lampoon your subjects as savages, would it? I am suspicious - you talk of a 'first film' which makes you sould like a film student or similar, but use an email address that leads to a half-finished website that refers to all manner of TV programmes without giving the reader any idea what connection, if any, there is between them and ZKTV. |
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| Mrs Baggins |
Well done! ANy reports on how that bunny tasted?? | ||
| Frewen Feltmaker |
It was lovely thanks
...and he drew and plucked the pheasant that we had last night (that's normally my job you see). He's becoming rather handy to have around
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| sean |
How's he getting on with the compost heap?
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| Frewen Feltmaker |
We are still working on that one 
He does want to keep ducks though
Not that the two things are related - before you ask
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| Mrs Baggins |
Sounds lovely! Well done! I so want to start living off the land like this too... we have bunnies galore in our garden... and pheasant... and I have just learned that there are wild deer and wild boar in the area too. I have just been invited on a shoot. I can't wait but I confess to being a bit nervous cos the last time I held a gun, I was 10. I shot a fox. And to this day it remains the one thing I have ever killed. Good on ya. Must taste a million times better 'cos you went out there and caught it yourselves! 
Good luck with your next quarry! |
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| nettie |
Ooo lovely, congrats! I love rabbit
We really ought to get ourselves sorted with suitable firearms and training, there were 4 of the fattest partridges I've ever seen trotting around in the field right outside our house yesterday, and not a damn thing we could do about it. We get loads of hares mooching about as well. |