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    LETTERS

    Apr 22, 2020 4 minutes

    LEAD-FREE IN GERMANY

    I am a new subscriber working in Germany. I have found the articles regarding the movement to lead-free ammunition most interesting. Here, such ammo has been mandated in all federal forest grounds and many state forests for nine years or so.

    Sennelager and Lüneberg Heide both have very well-managed populations of red deer, fallow, roe and wild boar and the federal foresters have been lead-free for some time now. In the south in Bavaria, the military training areas of Grafenwöhr and Hohenfels have been using such ammo for the same time and they manage to carry out their annual management plan using driven hunts and forester-guided hunts for capital red stags

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