WITH regards to the letter from Neil Burke about the desecration of the countryside with bullets and cartridges on public footpaths, I do not know which paths he walks along, but bullets (rifles) are never used on shoots.

It is illegal to do so. Cartridges from shotguns are more likely to have been used by poachers.

The Church Commissioners’ shoot adjacent to me has shooters from a variety of jobs. One is a fieldsman, one a retired postman, one a retired cake factory worker, one a bin man, another an IT worker, not a land owner among them.

All my neighbours bar one are not shooters or so-called sporting enthusiasts, and he is a tenant and not an owner.

The cartridges are collected and not left on the fields for cattle, sheep or horses to graze, and neither are they left on arable fields.

Happy walking, Mr Burke, but please do not condemn so easily when you come onto the free footpaths.

Pamela Frankland, Hull Road, Dunnington, York.