Teething troubles
I pick up and shoot on a number of local farms and always take birds home to eat if they are offered. Now, and especially in the near future, I won’t know whether these birds have been shot with lead or steel. While I am not keen on any shot in the game I eat, it is more likely that steel will break one of my ageing teeth. As such, do you know of any commercially available and cheap metal detector that I could use to scan the birds/cuts of game so that I can be sure this does not happen?
Jon Bellamy, via email
Ed – The only thing I can think of, Jon, are the digital detectors used for searching for nails, pipes, wires in walls. I’m not sure they would work, however. Readers, please write in if you have any other suggestions.