Should the guns be put down? This question arises a little more every day and now that almost all departments have published orders for derogatory measures for big game hunting, hunters are wondering.

Indeed, never had such a measure divided the hunting world so much, which objectively did not need it. Today, small game and big game hunters find themselves head-on when neither has asked for anything. In the middle of these “2 camps” the departmental hunting federations which have for the most part followed the instructions of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, with a few exceptions.

These exceptions include the Gers federation which has announced that it will not grant any hunting exemptions, including big game, so as not to divide its ranks. A measure that only the Gers has taken (to our knowledge) but which also reasons in the Landes where the FDC has communicated to be in total disagreement with the ministerial directives. In Meurthe-et-Moselle, the FDC ruled on its side that since we no longer had the right to agrainer it suspended compensation for damage.

So we see here and there that a slingshot wind starts to rise, and it's nothing compared to the state of mind of the hunters who are very angry. Of course, it is mainly small game hunters who are frustrated at not being able to indulge in their leisure which, according to them, could be practiced in the strictest respect of health rules. Ditto for the waterfowlers who also demonstrated this weekend.

Unfortunately, many people confuse them by believing that big game hunters are privileged: “There are only big game hunters”, “It's still big game hunters and their hunt for money”. In reality they are not privileged, they are just “requisitioned” by the state, but no pressure or lobby from big game hunters has anything to do with the current situation.

From then on, those who have understood this are thinking differently and voices are beginning to be raised to encourage ALL hunters to lay down their arms, and a fortiori their rifles. Deprived of glue hunting, moratorium on the curlew and the barge renewed, more and more expensive game damage, the hunters are both cash cows on which Barbara Pompilli did not hesitate to hit but also service workers of the state who pay for their work. We are, it must be admitted, in an ubiquitous situation, but which does not date from Covid 19, however.

You will have understood it, at all levels the hunters of France wonder. From the president of FDC to the president of Chasse or ACCA, everyone can at their level make decisions that will have a major impact, but the question is and remains: stop or again?