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quixoticgeek

Joined: 23 Dec 2008
Posts: 296
Location: Canterbury

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 10 8:37 pm Post subject: First Shoot
A friend of mine has invited me to join her for a spot of rabbit shooting on her farm this weekend. It is the first time I have gone hunting on land. So was wondering if anyone had any advice to offer a complete newby? Thanks J

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 10 8:43 pm Post subject:
Make sure you point the end of the gun with the hole in it away from you.

quixoticgeek

Joined: 23 Dec 2008
Posts: 296
Location: Canterbury

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 10 8:45 pm Post subject:

Bebo wrote:

Make sure you point the end of the gun with the hole in it away from you. :wink:

I really did ask for that one didn't I?

:o)

J

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46362
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 10 8:53 pm Post subject:
quiet clothes to work in and dry ones for later good footwear that is both quiet and protective a "serious student"attitude

magnet

Joined: 05 Apr 2010
Posts: 41
Location: Northumberland

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 1:57 pm Post subject:
Remember the wind keep it in your face.

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 4:40 pm Post subject:
Don't eat the meat! Been reading in this week's New Scientist that wild-shot game contains enough fragments of lead too small to be picked out during a meal to poison regular eaters.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 5:13 pm Post subject:

oldish chris wrote:

Don't eat the meat! Been reading in this week's New Scientist that wild-shot game contains enough fragments of lead too small to be picked out during a meal to poison regular eaters.

The analysis was performed on pulverised meat. The problem with this is that if shot is still in the bird during consumption it is often detected before being ingested. Lead shot doesn't tend to disintegrate it remains largely undeformed as small lead balls. However, if the meat is pulverised the lead is as well meaning a greater proportion would be ingested and absorbed.

They claim red grouse, partridge and pheasant hit the limit (take a 70-kilogram person over the lead-threshold set by United Nations bodies for most farmed animals) with about 10 meals per week. That an awful lot of meals based on game.

sako

Joined: 11 Oct 2009
Posts: 37

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 10:32 pm Post subject:

oldish chris wrote:

Don't eat the meat! Been reading in this week's New Scientist that wild-shot game contains enough fragments of lead too small to be picked out during a meal to poison regular eaters.

That should be don't eat the head, i always head shoot the rabbit with a .22 rimfire.
Shotgun is a different matter but you can still see where the shot is before you cook it.
Cheers
Richard

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35082
Location: Devon

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 10:37 pm Post subject:

vegplot wrote:

oldish chris wrote:

Don't eat the meat! Been reading in this week's New Scientist that wild-shot game contains enough fragments of lead too small to be picked out during a meal to poison regular eaters.

Thanks for doing the looking up I was just about to do. Spitting out the little balls is half the fun of eating game.

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 10 10:46 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Spitting out the little balls is half the fun

Thank you. I think I may have a new quote for my sig.

KILLITnGRILLIT

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 894
Location: Looking at a screen in the front room

Posted: Sat May 01, 10 10:24 am Post subject:
There seems to be the occaisional pellet in our "U" bend so it seems to pass through OK

quixoticgeek

Joined: 23 Dec 2008
Posts: 296
Location: Canterbury

Posted: Thu May 06, 10 2:59 pm Post subject:

[quote="oldish chris"]Don't eat the meat! Been reading in this week's New Scientist that wild-shot game contains enough fragments of lead too small to be picked out during a meal to poison regular eaters.[/quote]

I would imagine this depends on what weapon you are using to despatch the bunny. With an air rifle, there is only one small pellet to deal with, not a whole host of them as with a shot gun, making it a lot easier to remove and not consume it...

J

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