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mickey
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Woman loads Husband into Shotgun Shells.
      #9196 - 17/02/04 02:51 AM

Husband's ashes used for shotgun cartridges
By Auslan Cramb
The London Telegraph (England)
February 16, 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.

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Re: Woman loads Husband into Shotgun Shells. [Re: mickey]
      #9212 - 17/02/04 05:08 AM

Well, I want to be cremated. This would be a great way to spread my ashes!

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Re: Woman loads Husband into Shotgun Shells. [Re: mickey]
      #9238 - 17/02/04 11:25 AM

Will this make the shooting ground a "sacred site"?

If so I want to do this, claim some land for my ancestors to shoot one for eternity.


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Re: Woman loads Husband into Shotgun Shells. [Re: mickey]
      #9259 - 17/02/04 04:30 PM

Great story...thanks for sharing it!

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Hobie
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Re: Woman loads Husband into Shotgun Shells. [Re: NitroX]
      #9471 - 19/02/04 08:01 AM

To me, all shooting grounds are sacred sites.

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Re: Woman loads Husband into Shotgun Shells. [Re: Hobie]
      #9483 - 19/02/04 10:20 AM

intresting for sure... not sure if I'd like the same though...

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Re: Woman loads Husband into Shotgun Shells. [Re: Hobie]
      #19227 - 14/09/04 11:55 PM

That would be an awsome way to have ur ashes scattared

Ive got a long time before i die tho

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Re: Woman loads Husband into Shotgun Shells. [Re: mickey]
      #19431 - 26/09/04 12:10 AM

There was a guy in my dept. who was really into pyrotechnics, so at his wake he was scattered in a fireworks display.

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Re: Woman loads Husband into Shotgun Shells. [Re: AdamTayler]
      #22688 - 26/12/04 09:14 PM

Dear all,


In any case, probably the only time his wife gave him a blow job. Di scuss.


regards

K

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