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    Oct 17, 2019 6 minutes

    BITING BACK

    Having read the letter concerning the shift from using lead shot to steel shot [October issue] and a certain supermarket sourcing all its game shot using steel only I wonder how future sales will be affected when people eating game shot with steel find that they are having to make an appointment with their dentist to repair broken teeth? I speak from experience, having demolished three molars while eating duck shot with steel and not the softer lead. I have eaten game for 60 years, all shot with lead, and haven’t been poisoned yet.

    Tim Clarke, Chichester, West Sussex

    MAGNUM LOAD

    I purchased a semi-automatic, 3in magnum, 12-bore recently for the destruction of vermin, at which it is singularly effective. However, it could be far more effective if I could find 3in magnum cartridges loaded with No 6 birdshot (or smaller). As rats scatter the more lead I can distribute the more effective the gun would be. I can only get BB or larger in 3in magnum shells, which for

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