That's the point. There is far more harmful substances out there than lead but they don't seem to worried about our health with them.
It's hypocrisy and prejudice to a minority sector.
Personally I doubt it will be enforced.
Fox hunting was banned decades ago, still goes on. Hunting with archery was banned, still goes on.
I can see swaging equipment sales going up. Black market demand for bullet molds doing nicely.
Scrapyard lead sales up 1000%.
Interesting times ahead for sure.
Here’s how I see it going.
I’d start my monitoring at the dealers, game containing lead will be condemned, incinerated and traced back to the estate, shoot, date and team. This traceability is already in place.
Shoots offering lead shot game will be fined and face loss of their licences, in very short order, game shoots will fall into line and adapt their drives to non lead performance.
That leaves hedgerow ramblers and deer stalkers. Provided you are not selling what you shoot into a licensed dealer, you’ll probably get away with what you’re doing, but I bet that the penalties for being in possession of lead ammo post transition will be financially severe and involve loss of certificates. One nosy copper at a traffic stop or called out to a report of an armed man in a field is all it would take.
I personally wouldn’t chance it, it’s just not worth losing my shooting and my firearms so I’ll fall in line.
I suspect that most people will.
I know that you use muzzle loaders, you tell me that steel doesn’t perform at black powder velocities. So why not use Bismuth or Hevi shot?
Personally I take the view that shooting a muzzle loader is not a high volume sport, therefor I’d take the financial hit and use some other projectile, but if you dump the shot flask, the only evidence is in the barrels, and a squeeze on the triggers gets rid of it.
