Nope—this is a deregulation I disagree with.
Leads to indiscriminate killing of wildlife.
Leads to indiscriminate killing of wildlife.....How so?
“Leads to indiscriminate killing of wildlife.”
Seriously? Can you back that up?
I’m guessing that lead shot for waterfowl is still banned as it has been for years. And I think the studies on the ill effects it has on waterfowl and the food chain is well-founded.
It sounds like this is for bullets - usually used over land, and hopefully most of them get stuck in the critter anyways! And for lead weights for fishing. Not too many of them get stuck in the mud - at least not compared to lead shot.
Using Solid copper bullets requires a different way of thinking than with jacketed lead core bullets. Since copper is lighter and less dense than lead, it is not practical to make very heavy bullets without making them extremely long. Very long bullets require a much faster twist barrel to stabilize them, which are not standard on factory rifles, and become unstable quicker. Thus, the use of lighter bullets requires "thinking faster" instead of heavier. A lighter bullet with a high ballistic coefficient shot at faster speeds has less drop at all ranges than heavy jacketed bullets. Energy is slightly less and wind drift is virtually the same.
Most lighter bullets suffer from low ballistic coefficients and therefore are not a good alternative to heavier bullets as heavier lead core bullets tend to have a higher ballistic coefficient due to their density being greater. Also, just because a bullet does have a high BC it doesn't necessarily mean it is more accurate.
no it doesn’t
the regulation applied to wildlife preserves where there can be no indiscriminate killing of wild life. Any wild life killing will be carefully discriminated