However, there haven’t been any general bans on lead ammunition, just restrictions on when and where it can be used, thus not adding to the cost of target shooting, practice, or home/personal defense (or law enforcement/security). Please continue to fan the discussion and consider signing and sharing the petition.Very thorough and excellent reporting. So, who knows where I can find some deer?Is the Ruger Mini-14 rifle accurate?
Brown will soon weigh it for comparison with the remains of a lead bullet. All five are destroyed, and Yanke eventually retrieves the blunted piece of metal responsible for their demise.“This is textbook,” says Brown, a biologist and non-lead hunting education coordinator with the Oregon Zoo.
The all-copper projectile sports a pre-segmented front section that is designed to open into four sharp petals upon impact.
From lead .177 pellets to shotgun and pistol shooting the vast majority are mostly lead.In the bigger scheme of things, considering Monsanto Corporation’s millions of gallons of glyphosphate herbicides, massive applications of insecticide, Aspertame, Sucralose widely distributed into the food supply, along with wind mills killing millions of birds annually, massive bird kill-offs from microwaves, this discussion is barely a pin prick into the real overwhelming sources of environmental toxicity.
Stop pretending that man is having a bigger effect on earth than what we really are.We dig lead concentrations from deep in the earth, make it into products that get dispersed quickly around the world to degrade as pollution that is very toxic. (Photo: Jason Wimbiscus)My setup for this project consisted of a 5x5x8 inch block of Ballistic Technology’s Bullet Test Tube material backed by densely packed polyester fill material and softened paraffin wax blocks. In at least one case, they point out, condors were observed eating lead paint chips off an old fire tower. Variations of jacketed ammunition — typically a harder metal such as copper encasing a soft lead core — are among the most popular bullets used today.Those same Greeks who made some of the first lead ammunition may have also been the first to recognize the heavy metal as toxic. Our bullets are engineered to obtain maximum BC without becoming unpredictable so they are not difficult to tune. And when returning home from the range, they should immediately remove their shoes and clothing, and wash their hair.Problem is, things can go — and have gone — wrong, with tragic consequences, as The Seattle Times highlighted in their series, Health experts express great concern for members of the military and law enforcement, who probably spend more time than anyone at gun ranges. Undark uses cookies to analyze site traffic and to provide social media features. “One of my mantras is, ‘Control the things you can control in life,’” he said. In 2014, researchers from the U.S. (tin alloys yes, but those are more expensive than copper by a wide margin and poorly executed so far on top of that … but die-cast zinc should be pretty damn cheap and the only real special requirement would be sufficient lubricating coating or poly-coating to avoid zinc fouling the barrel … soft lead is also a problem for that, hence .22lr being heavily coated already, but different formulations might be required for the much harder nature of zinc, and poly-coating might be a better option to avoid barrel wear … then again, I’d think zinc-on-steel would wear less than steel-on-steel, which is what most cheap, FMJ ammo is in other calibers … I’d also expect Agulia to jump on the die-cast zinc bullet train first … possibly contracting to some Mexican Toy manufactuer for initial production, given … cheap, die-cast zinc toys made in mexico are fairly common)Use of certain types of bullets/ammunition should be more the point, that and re-examining existing restrictions that make lead pollution and contamination worse, particularly those aimed at minimizing suffering and maximizing clean kills. They were spreading a dangerous toxin! Shouldn’t the “traditional ammunition” supporters be responsible for supplying lead testing machines to every wildlife rehab center? Also, just because a bullet does have a high BC it doesn't necessarily mean it is more accurate. “Where does that end up?”Yanke proposes an answer: “That shit was in my cheeseburger last night.”Whether any particles of lead — a well-known neurotoxin when ingested in sufficient quantities — actually tainted Yanke’s elk burger is impossible to know.