Roestalker39
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Heard today the “ voice of shooting” has accepted a voluntary lead ban by 2024 .... can anyone confirm ?
Basc voluntary lead ban
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Hook'N'Bullet
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Ex-squeeze me?
Roestalker39
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A ban on lead shot on game shoots that’s what I heard
Hook'N'Bullet
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Not just ducks?
Roestalker39
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Nope
MackayRSA
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I was half expecting to hear they're pushing it to clay shooting too
Roestalker39
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It’ll come
It ought to come to clay shoots sooner, really, due to so much shot being concentrated in one place.
Roestalker39
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If the BASC had any backbone what so ever, they should use their not inconsiderable Membership fees to make a legal challenge in a court of law and challenge on the basis of scientific evidence, not regurgitated so called scientific reports that wouldn't stand up to proper scrutiny.
It's been said before, BASC has already let shooters down by previously rolling over on the use of lead shot for wild fowling without even bothering to submit a defence by way of a legal challenge.
This latest news if proved to be correct, shows how ineffective this organisation has become in defence of its members and fellow shooters!
It's been said before, BASC has already let shooters down by previously rolling over on the use of lead shot for wild fowling without even bothering to submit a defence by way of a legal challenge.
This latest news if proved to be correct, shows how ineffective this organisation has become in defence of its members and fellow shooters!
reloader54
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AN DU RU FOX
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If it was on PW it must be true, myself i believe in fairys at the bottom of my garden.
Roestalker39
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Would you get a straight answer if you did ?
reloader54
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Potential lead ban?
So, possibly a how long is a piece of string question but.. folk seem fairly certain that a ban on lead bullets is likely,(given how wildfowling went I wouldn’t be too surprised). But what I do wonder is whether this will likely only impact meat going into the game dealers? Or do you think...
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Voluntary wouldn't work. I bet an awful lot of game shooters (who, remember will go bang with their shotgun many more times that a deerstalker's rifle) will have quite a store of lead cartridges. Also, whilst the difference in price of rifle ammunition is minimal when you shoot off at best a few dozen rounds a year, a game shooter might shoot off maybe a couple of slabs of cartridges and will have to pay a good wedge more.
BASC already worries that many shooters of wildfowl don't always use lead free shot. And it is difficult on a driven day that generally should have pheasants flying over you when some duck come. Obviously you don't have the time to unload and load again, so you either have the choice of shooting with lead or giving them a pass. There's always some that can't resist...
I know that when it freezes over a certain period, we have a voluntary moratorium on shooting wildfowl, which does seem to work, but this would be different.
BASC already worries that many shooters of wildfowl don't always use lead free shot. And it is difficult on a driven day that generally should have pheasants flying over you when some duck come. Obviously you don't have the time to unload and load again, so you either have the choice of shooting with lead or giving them a pass. There's always some that can't resist...
I know that when it freezes over a certain period, we have a voluntary moratorium on shooting wildfowl, which does seem to work, but this would be different.
