Might be old news, just saw it today.

https://sportsmensalliance.org/news/biden-administration-moves-to-ban-lead-ammunition/

Another move to make ammo unaffordable to most.

Put this in the same category as banning lead wheel weights.

In the meantime, the more you know about rolling your own the better off you will be in the long run.

If we ever come-up with a surefire, non-corrosive, way to mfg our own primers it's game over for the anti-ammo libtard gameplan.

There are already 3x more reloaders out here than there were just five year ago according to the NSSF.

We're recycling lead acid batteries (to cast boolits) ... which is good for the environment btw.

And, eventually, you'll see more and more home press and lathing operations doing our own home pressing and spinning off copper wire and jacketed boolits.

You cannot stop 2A loving American ingenuity.

It’s worse than that DD, bans the use of lead ammo of any kind for any purpose.

Senate Bill 4157

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-06-09/pdf/2022-12463.pdf

It's just an attempt to harm hunting culture. They see this as a generational fight and they are winning incrementally.

I’ve been breaking lead down last few afternoons. Old roof flashings and lead water service

It’s very dirty, initial melts just to get the tar and asbestos separated





I like quench my lead with a Tennessee temper

Damn I though I could move away from this bullsh*t smh 🤦‍♂️

I said long ago the Feds would one day ban all hunting and fishing on all Federal lands. USFWS has long been anti-hunting and anti-firearms.

After all, if you can't hunt, you don't need any firearms, right?

Inch by inch by inch by inch.

L.W.

Got about 180 pounds of reclaimed wheel weights

Stuff's hard to cone by.
I designed a lead dripper and a buddy built it for me.
It only makes #8's.

Sadly, again, I have a 12 and 20 gauge MEC. I only shoot 16 gauge! 😖

Fuggin Californians....

Leading the charge

CA has had a ban on hunting with lead ammo for years. The used lead poisoning in condors as an excuse. Now that people aren’t hunting with lead you think that they would study this issue again and cancel the lead ban if the lead in condor blood hasn’t changed.

I think, some people may forget that lead comes from the earth.

Well, let's not forget.

So does arsenic, cobalt, uranium, radon gas, and a whole host of other nasties.

But, that's not really the issue.

Amen! 👍👍

I didn't shoot the deer cause I was hunting it sir, I shot it in self defense. It charged me and those were self defense rounds. Since it was dead I figured I'd just put my tag on it, rather than shoot another one with these here all copper bullets.....

Have used only Barnes for 30 years.
Never lost an animal.
Have yet to use a box of bullets.
One animal took 2 shots.
The real issue is lead birdshot. not bullets but you cannot expect government drones to be intelligent.

Been that way for years water fowling on our local refuge.

They can have my bullets, one at a time...

I had to pull back on all my torch smelting

My fingers are tingling and im shîtting blood

Sheesh

Have you ever shot 700+ rounds in a weekend prairie dog shoot? That’s a lot of Barnes copper bullets.

How's the coughing?

Coughing ? i ain’t had none of that. This aint ass pox

Could be that 35 gallon concoction I was spraying yesterday.

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Gly4
Dawn
Cypermethrin

For now, that's not an issue as you're likely talking about private land.

For now, the rule they're trying to pass is for National Wildlife Refuges. As 1minute noted, the rule has been in effect for them for years for waterfowl. But not for upland birds or game animals. The majority of refuges are primarily waterfowl hunting only.

When/if the feds try to outlaw ammunition containing lead on ALL fed lands, then it will be a real issue. As others have pointed out, nose under the tent thing.

Perhaps, someday in the future, they will attempt at banning it on private lands also. Maybe under the claim that the game and non game animals belong to the People (except perhaps high fence operations).

Well, breathing that Mt Dew/lead vapor steam takes awhile to kick in.

Coughing will probably start next week or so.

So Barnes cost 2x Sierras.

How much are your truck payments ?
How much did the gas cost to get to the hunt ?
Food, Lodging ?

If you can't afford bullets, try a crossbow, far more sporting.

BTW what was the last time some official checked your ammo ?

Copy that.

What basic lathe would be necessary for one to turn/produce his own solids? What would be necessary to accurately transition the solids to HP’s?

Could do it on a Hardinge second operation lathe if set up right using bar stock.

If this dumbschit carry,s over to hunting on FTCKY
I will just switch over to federal trophy copper sabot slugs for the Savage 220
Bout 6 clicks down and 6 clicks left from the rem accutips zero.
Have to look at my pic if the time comes.


Honk for Joey....
And his enlightened lackeys who love their power in their little utopian dream world.

😠😠😠

X bow is for fatt fuggs with Vietnamese pot bellied pig belly,s like Barnabus/ Bill Stallings who cant draw a bow and release it without getting string slap on their gut or moobs....

Just in case your out their lurking Billy...
You fuuucked up homes last Sept.

🤗🤗🤗
🤣🤣🤣

Won't comply.

Lol!!!!

70 pd draw weight bow and string slap on a moob nipple is probably one painful mofo...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Federal game warden checks my shotshells

Every time, we dove out there. Get a ticket just for having #6

Here's a thought.

Suppose the bill passes and of course, is signed by Beijing Biden. How can it be enforced with millions of hunters out on Federal lands? Well, it is easier than one might think ... so long as you adjust your mindset to that of a good America hating Democrat. Here's how they think.

As millions of hunters' firearms and ammunition would have to be constantly examined every day of hunting seasons throughout the United States, it necessarily would require hiring hundreds of thousands more Federal employees to enforce the "Hunters' Lead Free Bullet Possession Act."

There are hundreds of thousands of unemployed welfare cheats who would jump at the chance to be a sworn Federal officer carrying a gun and the authority to use it if he or she felt threatened by a right wing reactionary red neck running dog capitalist pig lead ammo carrying hunter, and be able at a moments notice to gun down the "resistor." Maybe a starting salary of $95,000.00 per year with possibility of rapid advancement, 20 weeks of paid vacation time, free medical and hospitalization, a nice, free 4x4 to drive, and the comradeship of fellow peers... which would include free beer. Not bad duty, huh?

That is how Democrats would enforce the "lead free ban."

L.W.

Probably every second or third time I duck hunt on a WMA.

LOL, what happened to the dog shoot ?

What a nozzle you are

Dude.

What happened to, America The Free?

What the heck is this place coming to?

[quote=slumlord]Could be that 35 gallon concoction I was spraying yesterday.

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What was your target.....interesting tank mix!

That's a lot of lead shot onto and into the ground. Hang your head in shame.

One lead core bullet used will have a devastating environmental effect here.