I knew the time would come eventually; it just so happened to be a few weeks before my annual trip to stalk fallow in South Lincolnshire. “Oh, by the way, we’ve switched to copper-only,” the keeper told me as we firmed up a date.
I’d been intending to move away from lead for a while; it was a case of waiting for the last of the soft-points in my cabinet to disappear. What I hadn’t anticipated was the difficulty in getting hold of lead-free factory ammunition in fairly short order. The price hike was unwelcome but expected; fruitlessly canvassing not-very-local gunshops to find something suitable was a tedious pain in the haunch.
It would be quite easy to get tangled in the detail of how this limited sample of shiny Cu performed, so let’s just say I hunted down a single box of 20, which grouped fine and performed well enough on 15 fallow, roe and muntjac shot in the chest at modest ranges over the next
