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Company touts tungsten as greener metal for lures, bullets
http://www.headwatersnews.org/stories/redirect.php?id=59607The chief executive officer of North American Tungsten Corp. Ltd. said tungsten is an environmentally friendly alternative to lead, making it the perfect metal to make fishing lures, bullets and buckshot.
Toronto Globe and Mail; March 5
Ben, you'll never replace Paul Harvey, for sure--because you conveniently leave out "the rest of the story". We're already well aware that tungsten, in loads such as Kent's Tungsten Matrix, is not only "green" but also a good choice for those guns in which one shouldn't shoot steel.
But the "rest of the story" would be . . . price. How many guys would give up hunting if they had to pay $3/shell? And if the only gun you have happens to be a non-steel safe older double, or even a more modern gun such as a Belgian Browning (the company recommends NO STEEL in those guns), you're pretty well shafted when it comes to clay target ammo if lead were to be banned. That's "the rest of the story", as the late Mr. Harvey would have said.
