So here in Britain, deer hunters are in varying stages of panic/resignation/frustration because the deer processing industry, having sold barely anything to anybody during the covid pandemic thus far, how now fallen on their knees in front of the major supermarket chains to pledge that all venison to enter the food chain will, after 2022, be lead-free.
Show me evidence of anyone anywhere having their quality of life adversely affected by ingesting lead in the form of either lead shot or bullet fragments. Don't people chew their food?
As is their wont, the shooting associations don't seem to have put up any kind of resistance at all and, consequently, there is currently a scramble going on to find non-lead substitute loads which comply with firearms licensing laws which differ between England & Wales and Scotland. In the case of the Scottish law minimum energy requirements for roe deer which is framed around .243 the law will simply fail to provide a product. Some shooters are hoping that this particular law will be amended but there is zero evidence of most politicians having either understanding or interest in anything which doesn't bring in urban voters so I don't hold my breath.
There are several ironies at play here, one of which is that a significant percentage of pre- and immediately post WWII housing stock has drinking water supplied through lead pipes. Further, in the scramble to claim "all lead bad, all copper good" we neatly overlook the fact that copper was banned as a marine antifouling material some years ago. Go figure.....
I'd love to hear from any of you guys who shoot deer or other "eatable game" using non-lead bullets.
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