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| Going Out With a Bang | ||
| 2004-02-17 | ||
An English widow has commemorated her gun-loving husband by having his ashes loaded into shot cartridges for use by his close friends in the last shoot of the season, the Daily Telegraph reported Monday.
PETA will have a fit. Mrs Booth, of Streatham, south London, said it was a marvelous day out and her husband would have loved it. Any day hunting is a good day. Julian McHardy, of the Caledonian Cartridge Company, said it was the first request he had received to put ashes into shotgun cartridges. "He was loaded in our Caledonian Classic, a 28 gramme load, No 6 shot with degradable plastic wadding," he said. Humm, wonder who I’d have to see to get my ashes loaded in a JDAM? Alistair Donald, the Church of Scotland minister from the nearby village of New Deer, who blessed the cartridges, said he had no qualms. "It was a perfectly normal scattering of ashes, a few words and prayers. After all, he had a lifelong interest in ballistics," he said. "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #17 Getting in really, REALLY late tonight. Gave up hunting the year I came back from Vietnam - got caught in the same hunting area with two absolute idiots, and came very close to deliberately blowing the head off one of them. I miss it. Now I just go for long walks in the mountains (when and where I can) until I can get my own piece of land to walk on. Can't wait until then, and until I can get a decent bow. Shotguns make too much noise, and rifles are nasty to arthritic shoulder joints. Adding a hundred pounds of venison or elk to the freezer makes life even easier! The best hunting dog I ever owned was an American Foxhound. Would tree anything, chase anything, and usually catch it. She'd even retrieve game when I missed..... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-2-18 12:04:47 AM |
| #16 Crazy Fool: I think there should be an automatic deduction because he forgot to mention juche. |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-2-17 3:49:52 PM |
| #15 I hear ya Sporting Fan, half the time I flush by accident (the Goldies not known for paying attention) but if I do my part, they usually find the bird and bring it back. (With a smile of course). |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-17 3:18:29 PM |
| #14 A good friend of mine who sells fine antique arms was present at this event, as James Booth is an old acquaintance of his. He even fired off one of the cartridges containing the old fellow's ashes. I've had the privilege of spending some time rabbit hunting in rural England, the inhabitants of which have a different (and IMAO superior) attitude toward life than their urban counterparts. It's a shame that Londoners now totally dominate the social and political landscape of that nation. They're all the worse off for it. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2004-2-17 3:03:55 PM |
| #13 Pheasants and woodcock - my spaniels are (the original, English) cockers. Great for heavy brush ... & they're show dogs too. Birds, brains, beauty as the Gordon Setter folks say. Don't have a problem giving rights to Pointers too, but I enjoy having a dog that will put the bird up and bring it back as well as telling me where it's hiding ..... (smile) |
| Posted by: sporting fan 2004-2-17 2:11:07 PM |
| #12 Muck4doo is right on target with this chainey thing, even my Goldies know Haliburtons' ruined the environment. Sporting Fan what kind of upland birds ya hunt? I favor the Southern Quail or partridge if you're sensitive. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-17 12:30:34 PM |
| #11 Lets not forget Pointers have rights too! :-) |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-2-17 12:23:43 PM |
| #10 muck4doo, you might be reassured to know that many shotgun shells have been using steel rather than lead pellets for years. I do support animal rights - in particular, the right of my flushing spaniels to find and bring back upland game birds in accordance with their inate skills and instincts. And the right of my sighthounds to course and catch, if they can, rabbits and hare. And both of them to eat the meat-rich diet that they evolved for over many millenia, along with their canid brethren the wolves and foxes. Me, too. |
| Posted by: sporting fan 2004-2-17 12:20:34 PM |
| #9 The answer my friend is blowing in the wind. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-17 12:11:53 PM |
| #8 bush didnt lie. he stated what may possibly be bad information that he and others received. that is not the same as lying. also saddams sons ruined the envirement in iraq and drained the marshes and deserved what they has comin to them. sorry just cuz i believe in animal rights doesnt mean you should paint me with a broad bush. so i support bush. there is no excuse for chainey thoughh. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-2-17 12:01:41 PM |
| #7 I think somebody's having some fun with us. Nobody can be as bag of cement dumb as muck4doo on purpose. I don't think he's a troll, but he could play one on TV. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-2-17 11:56:51 AM |
| #6 muck4doo, I give this a 3.6 on the troll meter. No mention of bush lying about it. While there is a cheney reference no haliburton or blood-for-oil reference. Not even a spittle. You did earn .6 for the spelling errors :) Over all a very disappointing troll..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-2-17 11:43:30 AM |
| #5 WTF is this drivel ? cymbals = a brass percussion instrument led = light emitting diode chaineys = people made of chains, I guess degradable plastic = not degradable envirement = the state of being envired muck4doo = doo4brains indeed |
| Posted by: D-Kaff_247 2004-2-17 11:11:46 AM |
| #4 Where have all the good trolls gone? |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-17 11:10:10 AM |
| #3 Not to muck4doo, but to "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." This is indeed a good idea. I not only see Kim du Toit doing this, but I wouldn't mind being part of the load that'll blow away asshats like doo4brains, er, muck4doo. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-2-17 10:59:06 AM |
| #2 Amen! |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-2-17 10:57:26 AM |
| #1 time to break out the ole check book again. did he get the food poisining from the animals he murdered? birds are the greatest cymbals of freedom and even america has an eagle for its mascot and would you like to see someone shooting them and making them dead? i cant believe this was blessed. nice to degradable plastic while spreading led through the envirement! this family is probably friends of the chaineys. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-2-17 10:57:23 AM |