This might be of interest to some. It is the William Powell 2023/24 Winter news letter.

https://www.williampowellsporting.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/JMORS-Winter-Newsletter-23-Online-Spreads.pdf?utm_source=William+Powell+Sporting+-+The+Ultimate+Sporting+Agency&utm_campaign=1da64f9ce4-SPORTING-NEWS23-181223&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-1da64f9ce4-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&ct=t(SPORTING-NEWS23-181223)&goal=0_30fe3b3df2-1da64f9ce4-26456634&mc_cid=1da64f9ce4&mc_eid=a2e84a78a5

Permit me to fix that link for you.

well done fudd...

how did you do dat?

Thanks, I just copied it off the header. I'm not all that confuser savy.

Thanks for the link ! The report gives an honest insight into the state of game shooting around the UK...it doesn`t make good reading sadly.

Thanks for posting. Having 2 friends that found they had Lymes, but too late to really stop the damage, I was interested to see they have tick issues as well. Also shooting old SxS I am always concerned when people start talking banning lead. What my outfitter said is, the lead ban was being pushed by restaurants not wanting to buy game with lead pellets and since they sell the majority of the game it would be a big impact to lose that option. OK, then explain why lead can't be used on the target range? To me it smacks of the old death by a thousand cuts, anti's trying anything that will make shooting more expensive more restrictive etc.

Yep,they keep chipping away following the strategy they used in Holland 25 or so years ago.....

In the mid-1990s, the fabulous pistol and rifle club I'd just shot two consecutive Canadian Pistol Nationals at was suddenly closed and condemned due to concerns about residual lead from spent bullets leaching into the groundwater and contaminating the local water table, from which potable tapwater was drawn. Offering this simply as an example. I don't have the data to defend or rebut the verdict.