Sir, – What a peculiar bit of headlining on the piece about deer hunting in Co Kerry (Go magazine, October 22nd): “Game on as hunters meet their match”.
A picture shows a man with a high-powered, sharp-shooting rifle with a telescopic focus and also binoculars. The “match” has only what evolution provided from a wholly different environment than its man-made habitat – the picture of the “match” shows a nose, ear, eye and antlers.
I imagine the deer would very much like to have the rifle, telescope and binoculars for meeting its “match”.
A match? Are we not a seriously confused, dangerous species? – Yours, etc,