Cranfield Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 From the Daily Telegraph. Husband's ashes used for shotgun cartridges By Auslan Cramb (Filed: 16/02/2004) 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. A total of 275 12-bore cartridges were produced from the mix and were blessed by a minister before they were used to bag pheasants, partridges, ducks and a fox on Brucklay Estate. Mrs Booth, of Streatham, south London, said it was a marvellous day out and her husband would have loved it. "It was not his dying wish, but I remembered that he had read somewhere that someone had had their ashes loaded into cartridges and he thought it was very funny. "One of our friends, a woman who had never shot before, got four partridges with James's marked cartridges." Mr Booth, an independent sporting and vintage gun specialist for Sotheby's in London, died two years ago, aged 50, after 18 months in a coma following severe food poisoning. 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." The special cartridges accounted for 70 partridges, 23 pheasants, seven ducks and a fox on Jan 31. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vermin Dropper Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Fantastic. That would do Me nicely when I'm gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new to the flock Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Vermin Dropper: After sending a close friend on his way in this manner 10 years ago, out at Long Point Bay a major duck hunting area on the Central Flyway, I requested to be sent off in the same manner. No visit to the undertaker, straight from the morge to the crematoriam, to the reloading bench and then on to the hunt field with some close friends....hope I can find some between now and then.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vermin Dropper Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 NTTF, I'll leave a request with my next of kin, if I go first, to have a couple of "My" cartridges, sent over for you to spread Me a little further afield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Pieman Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 NT, don't upset Trix or she may 'forget' you have to be dead first!!! :look: :look: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 That would be excellent dieing save in the knowledge that your ashes were going to stop a few pheasants and charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 I,ve just noticed that the chap died of, "severe food poisoning". Now, I could have a suspicious mind but,.................................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 craners are you trying to suggest that his wife could of had something to do with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 No, surely not. What Wife would poison her husband and then have him shot out of the end of a gun ? Do we know any Wives like that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_stag88 Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 No, but then i'm not married! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 I know one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new to the flock Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 Not me...mine loves me :look: :look: Or so she says... Teah she must or she would have left me with the kids long ago.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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