OXFAM’S GAIN

Shoot tieless (Editor’s letter, 6 September)? Oh Patrick! I agree totally with your stance on the sporting shot and clean kill that respects the quarry, but there is respect too for tradition and for your host and fellow Guns. All those with whom I am privileged to shoot observe the dress code, as do many of the beaters and pickers-up.

Shoot tieless? What will

I do with those shooting ties I have accumulated? What total of such ties must hang in the wardrobes of your readership? The charity shops won’t want them. And what down and prevent the lynx from “munching sheep”. Can you imagine how well that will go down with the anti-everything brigade? The Eurasian lynx has the cuddly factor of the fox and badger in spades… p. Fraser, northumberland will our young grandchildren give us for Christmas? I am not supposed to eat chocolate.

Well, at least you wore a tie for your mug shot at the top of your editorial column. If you need to replace that blue one, I have a couple you can have. i. Morton, shooting times contributor the parapet to support shooting, but I fear we must be far more proactive in general.

If respected — by some, at least — charities attempt to spread untruths and inaccuracies, we must get there first and explain how things work to the uninitiated. This summer you reported that school children were invited on to grouse moors to educate them (News, 19 July). Bravo to BASC for helping to fund that project, but we must do so much more.

J. Mercer, nottinghamshire

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