Originally Posted By: George L.
I may be here by myself but I am glad to see someone standing up for the environment. No-Tox and Bismuth loads are readily available, although they cost a little more. If everyone would do a small thing for the environment, perhaps there will be an environment left for future generations. IMHO

Best Regards, George


George, lead is a naturally occurring element. We mine it out of the ground. It's not radioactive, like uranium. We've been shooting it on ranges much older than Foxhall for a very long time. The only potential damage I'm aware of from accumulated shot fall would be if it were to drop into water, where it might be ingested by waterfowl. Or perhaps it might be picked up as grit by certain other bird species--although that does not appear to be happening often enough that biologists can demonstrate via population decline (as they did with ducks, back when we still shot them with lead) that any specific SPECIES is suffering harm.

We have to be very careful that what's being sold to us as "protecting the environment" does not have a strong ulterior motive behind it--like intentionally taking aim at hunting and the shooting sports.