Lead Ban

[Liveonce]

This table is from one of the HSE studies. If you take away target shooting, where the lead is localised and has the potential to be collected, its staggering that live quarry shooting, produces 533 times more lead than live quarry with rifles.

Within live quarry shotgun shooting, I suspect the majority of lead is released by large scale industrial shoots for wealthy finance guys. At some of these days, one person will fire more shots than I do in two years of rough shooting. I get it that big shoots employ people - game keepers, beaters, picker-uppers and filling accommodation etc.

But I am hoping that someone sees sense and provides an exemption for the small scale one-for-the-potters. Frankly its none of the government's business if I shoot a bird on my own land and eat it, the lead released is inconsequential.

The finance guy's gun is probably new so steel proofed anyway, but if they have to buy a new gun its nothing compared to the total cost of shooting. However for some people buying a new gun or bismuth will be a huge outlay, not to think of the teenagers learning who won't even be able to source ammo for their 410s/28/20/16/2 inch 12 bores.

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why is even an estimate, not annual average for the last five years?

surly not that hard to contact the u.k. manufactures and importers and ask what lead ammunition they sold over the five years then take an average. It’s a poor estimate more like a guesstimate.

 

[enfieldspares]

I have been clay shooting today at Kingsferry Gun Club, using steel. No problems. I am going after squirrels and pigeons tomorrow, and will be using lead. No problems. Why did the shooting organisations rush us headlong into snatching defeat from victory ?

Because BASC funded the British Game Alliance to make the sham justification of big bag shooting that "it's not treating live birds as if they were feathered clay pigeons it's actually harvesting game meat for the food chain" and when supermarket chains started refusing lead shot game the BASC volte face followed pretty soon after. Also note that the CPSA did NOT sign up to the nonsense.