But this is part of the problem - orgs such as the BASC, who should back the shooters and provide advice to the govt, have 'welcomed' non lead, despite them saying, prior to that no science no change.
Don’t ever rely on Wikipedia, literally anyone can contribute. Quoting it as fact just makes you look like you don’t know what you are talking about. If you want to research the mm research proper, published and peer reviewed papers.
I remove red offal in the field as well so there could be fragments in heart, lungs etc etc.
That's up to you. I don't. If you're worried about raptors, either do a green-only gralloch or use copper. Raptor lead-poisoning is not a sufficient risk for lead to be banned in the UK.
I do use copper.
The bit about lead shot in vegi's was about them absorbing lead from heavily lead contaminated soil. I don't think a lead shot rolling out of the leaves of a iceberg lettuce is going to kill anyone. There was a extensive trial done here of people eating lead shot game. No problem was found and they came up with the recommendation to clean the carcass well of blood shot meat and discard a 10cm area around the wound entrance and exit. Although mono metal bullets have improved trials have proved they are not as good as lead and the banning of lead will lead to less practice on the range. Shooting of lead was banned years ago on clay shooting grounds here in Sweden apart from a discipline called, jaktstig. This is because a metal target holder is used.
No, no, no Your bringing too much common sense to the argument. WW1 was a mere skirmish when you compere it to a days pheasant or pigeon shooting.Given the thousands of tons of lead in the soil in northern France and Flanders, especially those areas in which agriculture is practiced, which is most of it ,if lead, in the form we shooters use, were to be deleterious to health, surely we would have heard something about it by now .
The point put to me was about eagles on Scottish hills. The recovery can often be longer and dirtier than a lowland field-edge Therefore, the less one opens the carcass the better, in my experience.
Not just WW1 . WW2 had approx 300 million small arms rounds fired (in all theatres) A fair few of which would have been in the regions mentioned - eg Normandy
Well that's put me off my sprouts.
Me and a shooting friend had this very conversation more than 20 years ago .
Spot on, banning shooting is the ultimate goal, the lead ban will go ahead, the EU has already mandated that lead is unsafe so no point in arguing, it’s a done deal. It doesn’t matter what the science says, the decision to ban is irrevocable.
I'm not sure about whether or not monolithics are better on wild boar, perhaps someone who shoots them regularly would care to comment?
Not fighting wars at all would be a far better way of saving the environment!
