I was listening to the Deercast podcast episode with Ben Heath of Deerbox which was, in parts at least very interesting.
He talked about the fact that he imports the Neilson bullets, copper with a brass wedge, has anyone had much experience with the brand in the field?
Discussing this with a stalking pal
@JH83 we thought it was interesting that a venison dealer was voting for a round that is design to fragment petals. It seems contrary. Obviously lead is the most poisonous of metals used in bullet construction but is there no toxicity associated with copper and/or brass we wondered?
Ben did say he head or neck shoots most of his deer.
I’d add the fact that in my hill rifle, a 30:06 I also use biometal (versus monometal) bullets via factory non lead Geco Evo rounds that are copper with a twin tin core. This because they reviewed top in the Fieldsports Britian research piece, my Sako 85 liked them and they were the least expensive brand my dealer said they were getting a relatively consistent supply of.
These rounds I have used on around 20 reds and 20 roe in the last 14 months and they seem to create a bigger wound channel and exit wound than the lead I was using previously in that calibre.
However, associated with the above another stalking colleague who is also a vet
@Selous also mentioned that the greater fragmenting nature of these biometal bullets was slightly at odds with whole non toxic drive. Incidentally some years ago he put a deer shot with lead in the chest through his MRI scanner and the image showing the sheer amount of very tiny lead fragments over such a large area was at the very least enough to make you sit up and listen to the whole non lead subject.
It has made me seriously consider moving away from the Geco rounds.
Interested in people’s thoughts.
