Shooting Times & Country Magazine
How can we stop this waste?
I agree with J. Hollow regarding recycling spent cartridges (Letters, 14 November).
We must demonstrate our credentials for respecting and improving the environment.
Our shoot is collecting spent cartridges for the first time this season and it does raise awareness for the need to remove them from peg or field.
For the purists, confirming their day’s cartridge-to-kill ratio or the opposite is valid. When removing pegs at the end of the season, cases will be found, sometimes in foliage where it is difficult in a busy drive to find them. We have found that Agri Cycle in Lincolnshire (www. agri-cycle.uk.com) provides various packages for collection of spent cartridges. c. stables, edinburgh This is a photo taken by my son William, 12, of his gundog in training, Bess, aged one and a half.
She is pictured up the woods on Remembrance Sunday, sporting her poppy that William bought for her at school, to remember the animals that also sacrificed all in the past conflicts of our nation.
William and Bess are progressing with “their” training very well, though sometimes I am not sure who is training whom. It is a great journey to watch and I hope that they will have many, many years ahead of them in the field together. Bess’s favourite pastimes include uprooting all my soft fruit bushes and rhubarb in the garden; very gently removing apples and pears from the trees and retrieving them neatly to the kitchen; finding random things while out on walks; and chasing her red setter sisters with plastic tree guards.
She is also very fond of lying around William’s neck while he is trying to watch TV. Bess is Drakehead lines, but we do think she may be part mountain goat.
M. renwick, by email Shooting with Britain’s oldest syndicate. A day run by keepering students for lady Guns. What does Brexit mean for the game market? Big-bag days seen through the eyes of a picker-up.
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