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Future proof

Thinking of going on a BASC ‘Try Sustainable Ammunition Day’ to find out if steel shot breaks clay targets? Let me save you a car journey. It does.

I’ve been using the stuff on and off for years on shooting grounds that allow its use. It certainly dusts the discs. Then again, so would cement-coated popcorn if the targets were close enough.

“Is temperature key to the composition of degradable wads?”

It also kills birds, but in my somewhat-limited experience not as well as lead, a material

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