GILES Bradshaw criticises the Hunt Saboteurs' Association's recommended tactic of flushing animals out of woodland to empty it of wildlife before a hunt arrives, Pre-beating' tactic is just hypocritical, Letters, October 31.

He claims that the HSA is hypocritical in lambasting hunts for allegedly breaking the law when pre-beating occurs on private land.

Hunt saboteurs do not lambast hunts for breaking the law — they lambast hunts for hunting wildlife in the name of sport — whether that hunting is legal or illegal. They always have. They always will.

Hayden Macey

Newton Abbot