Husband's ashes used for shotgun cartridges

[Kellanved]

The widow of an expert on vintage shotguns had her husband's ashes loaded into cartridges and used by friends for the last shoot of the season.

Joanna Booth organised the shoot for 20 close friends on an estate in Aberdeenshire after asking a cartridge company to mix the ashes of her husband James with traditional shot.

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Julian McHardy, of the Caledonian Cartridge Company in Brechin, Angus, said it was the first request he had received to put ashes in shotgun cartridges. "He was loaded in our Caledonian Classic, a 28 gramme load, No 6 shot with degradable plastic wadding."

Before the first drive, the cartridges were blessed by the Rev Alistair Donald, the Church of Scotland minister from the nearby village of New Deer, who 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."

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/16/ncart16.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/02/16/ixportal.html

[Burma Jones]

1. OK, I'll start, "He's going out with a Bang"

[ronnykmarshall]

2. You're quick!

I was just gonna write that.

[Deja Q]

3. Seems logical if not perverse; in death he's used to commit more death.

Disgusting. On multiple levels.

Sounds like he's an accessory to murder if somebody shoots another human being with his bullet...

Unless it's skeet shooting, they can whollop as many little ceramic discs as they please. Nobody gets hurt and his remains get scattered all over the ground, to be used as birdseed no doubt.

[mobuto]

4. Yuck

One would think it'd give pheasant or quail a bit of an aftertaste.