Letters

TIME TO SPEAK OUT

My patience is exhausted. With small but vociferous groups getting all the headlines I must take to task the Countryside Alliance and BASC, of whom I have been a member for many years. With their supposedly media savvy PR departments I cannot understand why they are not promoting more strongly our side of the argument and all we do, and getting headlines in the national press.

The world is changing fast, we cannot stand still. Traditional hunting has gone, shooting is going the same way and angling will be next. Country sports as we know them will be finished within two or three decades unless our PR becomes more proactive and aggressive.

M Randell Rugby, Warwickshire

I read with interest the letter jointly signed by Ian Bell (BASC), Teresa Dent (GWCT) and Tim Bonner (CA) [October issue] regarding the continued use of lead shot. I am disappointed with their response to Waitrose’s embargo on game killed with lead shot. I suspect that this is its way of avoiding the purchase of any game as currently little, if any, will be shot in this