Things are moving slowly in shooting, but in the right direction it seems.
Fifty million biodegradable shotgun cartridges this year – that’s enough to replace just those used in Pheasant shooting in the UK in a normal year where about 15 million Pheasants are shot but that takes between three and four cartridges per downed bird. Now get rid of the lead…
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So 50 million cartridges have to be left lying around the countryside to break down? Or are we expecting shooters and game keepers to take them home to put in their compost bins? It seems like if they’re taking them home then recycling the plastic and brass would be better than using plant materials and farming/mining resources for a single use item. I’d be interested to know how many of those 50 million cartridges will contain lead shot though.
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We’re forever picking up spent cartidges on our reserve in Spain even years after we took it out of the hunting coto. In some places there are literally piles of cartidges, beyond me why they’re left there when it would’ve been so easy to put in a pocket and taken home.
Better no hunting though – these extreme conditions make it hard enough for the wildlife as it is.