A FITTING MEMORIAL FOR ATTILA THE GUN

An Englishwoman has had her dead gun-loving husband's ashes mixed in with normal shot in shotgun cartridges and used them to go shooting with her friends. 275 cartridges were made and they accounted for 70 partridges, 23 pheasants, 7 ducks and 1 fox (never heard of fox shooting before!).

Surely this has to be the way that my gun-obsessed colleague Attila is put to rest when the time finally comes for him to hang up his AK47. Of course he would need to have his ashes somehow fitted into one of the depleted uranium armour piercing bullets that are apparently necessary in the States for shooting (you never know when you may come across a man-eating kevlar-reinforced rabbit after all). It would be a fitting finale I think. Just as Vermont's wildlife starts to relax, one of them gets Attila through the brain at a zillion m.p.h.