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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: TAB on October 20, 2013, 11:44:14 PM
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So gov brown signed a law based on crap studys banning lead for hunting in ca, so what options are there( not that i plan on hunting ca any time soon) i know steel, tungston/bismoth for shot. What about for buck and slugs? then there comes center/ rim fire. I know barns makes copper and some manufactors make 22 in copper. Does anyone else? bronze is out for pistols by federal law.
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Frangible ammo doesn't have any lead in it. They make it for rifles and pistols. No alternatives that I know of for slugs and buckshot. There are solid copper pistol bullets too. I haven't seen copper .22s, just copper washed lead.
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The manufacturers are too numerous to list.
Go to Midway's site and search "lead free ammo", there is a bunch listed. In stock right now is a different question.
Do a Google search and see the 1.6 million hits.
Remington and Winchester make copper slugs, Federal makes non-lead buckshot among others.
I feel sorry for our brother shooters in CA but in all honesty, they need to move out of that $h!thole of a state and quit supporting it.
I wish the WHOLE firearms industry would do a Ronnie Barrett and quit selling ANYTHING in CA.
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Leave it to Kalifornia to ban ammo made out of a naturally-occurring substance because of environmental concerns. ::) ::) ::) ::)
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The liars are here in NH as well.
The Gov recently signed a bill banning lead sinkers under 1 Oz. because Loons have eaten them.
Thing is, they will eat what ever the lead is replaced with as well.
And I doubt the lead is nearly as bad for them as the hook on the end of the line.
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its the condors actually, atleast thats what they are using.
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The Gov recently signed a bill banning lead sinkers under 1 Oz. because Loons have eaten them.
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THats how they became loons....
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After I posted to this thread I remembered that Remington made a copper shotgun slug. I still haven't seen buckshot made of tungsten or bismuth, etc. but I haven't been looking for them either.
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After I posted to this thread I remembered that Remington made a copper shotgun slug. I still haven't seen buckshot made of tungsten or bismuth, etc. but I haven't been looking for them either.
For hunting, I would stick with a slug over buckshot most of the time anyway. I know at least Hevi-Shot makes some lead-free #4 buckshot for coyotes.
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about the only thing buck or slug would really be used for in ca is pigs( maybe deer if all you had was a shot gun, but not likly)
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A while back someone manufactured .22's that had Tin bullets. I don't know if they're still around.
I found this:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2008/12/11/winchester-announces-lead-free-22lr-and-22-magnum-and-223/