If they could just see how much lead shot is flung around at an English driven game shoot, and has been for the last 150 years, and then see just how healthy the bird life is then they might realise just how low the risk is. The same at our local clay club; the pheasants there even come out pecking around about fifty yards in front of some of the stands while the shooting is ongoing and they are all healthy. Lagopus.....