big ears
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So following your arguments it’s the cost rather than the ammo that is affecting clay shooting.sounds easy just shoot steel in the 12ga short term may allow most to continue but ask yourself in the long term how does the next generation enter the sport, most young will start with a .410 or 28ga.
Club insurance will probably go up, as steel shot is seen as a greater risk of ricochet than lead shot.
But I believe clay shooting is about to start declining from its current popularity, due already to the very significant increases in the cost of clays and cartridges and that’s before the ban on lead, RC put their prices up yet again yesterday I have been told, which probably means the rest will follow soon.
And if anybody thinks that their is enough steel shot manufacturing capacity present to replace all lead shot across the EU and U.K. (all made in china) or that it will magically appear in the next few years, given the global shortage of steel production (Ukrainian and Russia were big exporters of steel) then they are living in a different universe.
I’d agree. It is an expensive sport that fewer and fewer are able to afford. That is independent if what is shot.
Thanks to this government the rich have got richer and the poorer poorer. This perhaps is the biggest risk to shooting not the lead shot ban.