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Thread: The end of lead shot in 410's

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quackers View Post
    Yeah I'd like a smaller shot size like a 6 or 8 for tss.more pellets than a 4.at 70bucks a kg it's pricy.i did buy some of there 12 gauge bismuth last year after using up all my bismuth shot.but haven't tried it yet . I did see some on a Chinese market website where you can buy the bismuth shot much cheaper.
    Has anyone seen any .410 bismuth cartridges for sale?? It seems since F&G banned the use of
    Lead in .410 there is nothing available to shoot in them for the daffys.

    .410s are fantastic way of encouraging younger shooters into the sport….

    The entire national F&G Council and the CEO obviously live on another planet and obey their DOC masters. It might be worth raising this with Nicole or David S as another example of a dumb bit of regulation/green tape to be done away with from the last government.
    I thought F&G were supposed to support and uphold our sport. There is some BS in their newsletter/PR Comms at the time about some bismuth ammo being available but it sounds like it’s not gunna happen.

    I will now have to go down the deeper rabbit hole of hand loading some. Either that or I write and ask for an exemption. I think they used to issue them for muzzle loaders that used
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    Quote Originally Posted by 300CALMAN View Post
    Your not. The people doing this have no grip on reality or desire to keep the sport going.
    perhaps thats the point no messy duck hunting and hunters to worry about just a nicer class of human who fish

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    Quote Originally Posted by gsp follower View Post
    perhaps thats the point no messy duck hunting and hunters to worry about just a nicer class of human who fish
    Unfortunately it's probably right. No politicaly annoying guns and no irrational frightened Karens either.
    ‘Facts don’t care about your feelings’


 

 

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