BioAmmo cartridges

With shooting increasingly under the microscope and all of us needing to reinforce the conservation credentials of our sport, any advance in environmentally sustainable ammunition is to be welcomed.

“BioAmmo can be buried or added to the compost heap”

Alternatives to lead shot have been available for some time now but, more recently, matters have moved on with manufacturers starting to look seriously at truly biodegradable wadding. The problem of cartridge cases remains, though, and the only option available to shooters who wanted an alternative to plastic cases –which needed to be recycled if they were not to go straight to landfill — was waxed paper.

This is prone to swelling, so wet weather sportsmen and wildfowlers in particular have been understandably reluctant to revert to it. Now, though, BioAmmo has made a giant leap forward