Hi Keith Im not taking your posts personally you are right to draw attention to our loss. What I am saying is we know a ban is coming and that the governments aim is to introduce legislation to restrict lead shot in the environment . To that end it has ,through the statement made by our shooting organisations here in the UK, expressed its intention to ban lead for all live shooting

The organisations which previously held the view that there would be no change from lead until there was scientific evidence to justify that change have u turned. The magazine writers in shooting times over the last year have been writing more positive articles on steel cartridges and some even writing that they had switched over to steel and how successful it has been long before this announcement If you look at the UK based pigeonwatch forum and read the reaction on the steel shot / voluntary ban threads amongst other things you will see shooters, yes shooters ,proposing a ban on game shooting and an adoption of simulated game shooting instead ie clay shooting over ground once used to drive pheasants commercially, all while they continue pigeon shooting ,wildfowling or deer stalking.
This self interest and inability by some shooters to pull together will encourage those opposed to any form of live shooting and highlights the divisions within the shooting world.
These attempts at appeasement when under so little pressure reflect badly on a section of UK shooters but in their eyes the availability of a Eleys 2 3/4 steel game load with a biodegradable shot cup wad is sufficient to warrant a complete ban on lead shot for live shooting.

I can only imagine that legal change was imminent, that the shooting organisations reasoned ,perhaps partly because our shooting community was so divided .that we would not successfully oppose it ,and opted to preempt a total ban by the voluntary ban this would give shooters time to plan their adoption of non lead alternatives and use up their lead ammunition and allow a transition period for ammunition manufacturers to sell off their lead game cartridge stocks and switch to non lead production for their game cartridges.
Clay pigeon shooting will continue with lead which unbelievably has resulted in a call on shooting forums for a total ban on all lead shot shooting ...........BY SHOOTERS.
And all this before we take in to account the work of the anti shooting brigade.
Phew.


Last edited by Konor3inch; 02/28/20 05:21 AM. Reason: Clarification