Thanks for the clarification craigd ,I agree we seem to always be on the back foot and not proactive in the face of attack from the anti fieldsports community.
The divisions here among shooters does not help either and our lack of access to common ground to hunt on is a disadvantage as we lack that opportunity to normalise our hunting instinct and make it more inclusive to the general population .Instead we are prone to be seen as an elitist group characterised as toffs on the moor on the twelfth or hooray henrys blasting away at pheasants at a covert side and I think it is those generalisations which make it easy to polarise opinion.
It appears now that there was no consultation with the cartridge manufacturers who have now issued a statement to that effect and contradicting the statement by the fieldsports organisations. The whole issue has turned into a bit of a farce