LETTERS
Dec 15, 2021
4 minutes
LEAD — A SOLUTION?
A move to steel at the expense of lead will have the single most damaging impact on both clay and game shooting in my lifetime. At one stroke it will render redundant the UK’s finest lightweight game guns and significantly impact employment.
The shooting organisations that joined and signed up to ban lead did so without sufficient consultation with their members, cartridge manufacturers and without positive testing trials to determine energy comparisons with lead at all ranges. The signatories capitulated without resistance, in effect letting down the shooting community without good reason. Five generations of my family have regularly eaten lead-shot game in
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