The Spanish Agency on Food Safety and Nutrition has looked at the human health risks associated with use of lead shot in hunting. I guess Spaniards eat quite a bit more game than you and I, and that hunters eat more than non-hunters do. If you are an Andalucian game-hunter (and I guess you are…
Category: Lead
A condor lead moment
American nature conservationists are campaigning to remove lead ammunition from the environment because it poisons species such as swans, eagles and California condors. They argue that non-toxic shot alternatives should be used. They also say that use of lead ammunition risks the health of people, particularly children, if they ingest tiny fragments of lead from…
Firing blanks
When I worked at the RSPB I got a media summary every day. I would look forward to Thursday as the Shooting Times would always deliver a few laughs. You could tell that when there wasn’t anything of great interest to write about in the shooting world they would fill their pages with lurid stories…