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    Readers’ letters

    Feb 27, 2020 4 minutes

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    What of older guns in a lead-free world?

    I detect a convergence between recent articles in Shooting Gazette about lead vs lead-free shot and comments about how older guns, which are not steel-proof, either are not selling or their prices are in decline. Are shotgun shooters futureproofing their acquisitions and giving up on older guns? Is the move from side-by-sides to over-unders independent of what may happen to the material used as shot? What is the future for older guns that are not steel-proof?

    Could you persuade Donald Dallas to analyse the trends and possible scenarios, and then draw some

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