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Heavyshot..is whOre'rendously over priced here and useless in a fine gun.
Remington is fix'n to put a wupp'n on Hevi'shot...maybe they'll step to the plate and buy Bismuth shot company.
We really need to get the NRA behind us on this lead shot issue.
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What is the problem re Kent marketing: availability, advertising, low demand, price? I live in the sticks and it is available here. The price has gone up 80 per cent.
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Hevi-shot has the ballistic statistics that are better than lead and kills as or more effectively then lead, the only drawback is it's price!!! And we are only talking about a small number of hunters that want to hunt with older shotguns, I don't think the firearms industry is going to cater to that small of a market because there are plenty of shotguns, doubles included, that are built to handle steel and Hevi-shot.
All the best
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That's probably it re tungsten. Treblig. I'm the only guy using it within 50 miles. The other doubles guys are using steel. Good duck habitat is within an hour's drive in Nova Scotia so I don't consider the cost of hunting at tungsten prices a factor in the experience. What: the price of a movie, a few in a bar?
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King B, Amen to that brother!!!! A good day hunting is priceless!!!
All the best
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Heavy shot..is whOre'rendously over priced here and useless in a fine gun.
Remington is fixin to put a whuppin on Hevi'shot...maybe they'll step to the plate and buy Bismuth shot company.
We really need to get the NRA behind us on this lead shot issue. Please don't ask for that, the less we do to expose what goes on in the NRA hierarchy the less the general membership will know how we've been ripped off. Goodness, How I miss NEAL KNOX!
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In Missouri there are small game permits, you would need a resident(or non-resident) small game permit(no deer, or turkey) + Missouri migratory bird hunting permit.
These permits have gone wanting for years.
Missouri is very pro-hunting, that and also with the largest turnout for an NRA event this last year in St.Louis.
...and still!
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Sidelock
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Trying to get this thread back on line.
If lead is increasingly under fire as being unsuitable for wildfowling what pray do the Scientists recommendas a suitable alternative?
Tom Roster and CONSEP seem to indicate that the REAL problem MAY be inefficient marksmanship.
That apart what is the feeling about alternative shot?
Kent don't seem to be marketing Tungsten very well.
Bismuth?
Heavyshot isn't all it was cracked up to be and is horrendously overpriced here in the UK.
Zinc?
Tin?
Soft Iron? ( Steel)causes environmental issues.
What do we need to use that is economical, efficient, readily available?
Lead?
This is a blast from the past..........good read and opinions for the dull late summer....... Cheers,
Doug
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Returning to the original topic . . . Iowa's Natural Resources Commission added a requirement for nontox shot only to that state's (first ever) dove season this fall. The state legislature's Administrative Rules Review Committee removed the nontox requirement, and Governor Branstad scolded the NRC because "an issue of this magnitude of public policy should be decided by the legislature, not by an unelected commission".
Score one for lead.
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Once it is banned for one type of hunting, then it will only be a matter of time for the rest and most likely a short one.
David
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