Anyone up for a spot of red kite shooting?

Though I'm aware that taking pot shots at birds of prey is generally considered unsporting, there are so many in the part of mid-Wales I'm staying right now that I think they almost qualify as a pest. Plus, of course, it would really, really, REALLY annoy the RSPB. And annoying the RSPB, to my mind, is such a noble and worthwhile task it's kind of the modern equivalent of being a medieval peasant and doing the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella or dying of dysentry on the Crusades: it...