Whats the latest with the lead/copper debate?
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Pine Marten
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Copper is shinier, but lead is softer. Depends what you like.
Yes....the only copper in the house/workshop is the water pipes and a Thor copper/hide hammer for on the mill.
timbrayford
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Mind numbing boredom I believe!
maximus otter
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It’s irrelevant if, like me, you don’t sell your venison.
The whole copper/lead (non)issue is just the next click of the garrotte around shooters’ necks anyway. The ultimate object is what it’s always been: A total ban on private firearms ownership, much less shooting animals.
maximus otter
The whole copper/lead (non)issue is just the next click of the garrotte around shooters’ necks anyway. The ultimate object is what it’s always been: A total ban on private firearms ownership, much less shooting animals.
maximus otter
You're a bundle of joyous optimism, aren't you?
maximus otter
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Much of my optimism vanished with my AK, my £7,000 of handguns (together with my chances of representing my country at pistol shooting), sensible pricing, my REACH powders etc. etc.
52 years of FAC possession gives one perspective.
I now hear that the next government is going to charge what they decide is the full cost of FAC issue/renewal. Obviously they’ll base that on the price quoted by the cheapest and most efficient police force…
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shakey jake
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no wiring then?Yes....the only copper in the house/workshop is the water pipes and a Thor copper/hide hammer for on the mill.
Fork candles
MAH
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Hi Homer.
I was hoping someone might have answered your question, as I'd like to know too.
My understanding is it's a mixed bag, in that some organisations, like Forestry Commission and estates that supply the food chain insist on no lead. Likewise with game dealers. Its thier business and are free to make restrictions.
Legislation has not been passed to ban lead bullets.
So if you keeping the carcass for yourself and the landowner is happy, you can still use lead.
And I don't see that changing and time soon.
Happy to be corrected
M
It’s a load of pandering nonsense that will get punched through regardless of the responses, the same as electric cars, windfarms and the other green pandering nonsense when really we should be helping other countries to stop them burning tyres and clothing and plastic waste…
shakey jake
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do you mean four candles or fork handles?
I really don’t think it is, provided it’s restricted to stuff that goes into the food chain. Which is actually further than the current proposal’s go.
I was very much a sceptic of copper bullets but use them now in 4/5 different calibres and they do work well, so how is it a restriction?
maximus otter
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a) Lead has worked just fine for hundreds of years with no issues.
b) lf copper works fine in your rifles, wonderful. lt may well not work in others, or some shooters may not be bothered to try, and simply give up. (Result! as far as the Greenies are concerned.)
c) Copper is more expensive.
d) Does anyone really believe, when we’ve all been good little boys and changed over to copper, that the next step won’t be to have some compliant scientists announce that copper is even worse for the environment than lead, so we’ve all got to switch to bismuth, or tungsten, or whatever is less available and more expensive? And so on…
Anything that limits our choices is a restriction, and limiting our choices is a ratchet that only turns one way.
maximus otter
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