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2004-12-22
The Lead Ban of January 1, 2008

From January 1, 2008, it will not be possible to sell hunting and sporting ammunition, containing lead, meaning with bullets containing lead cores.

We could load bullets of any kind of material, but we feel that there is no good substitute for lead as of today, and that metallic lead does not cause any environmental problems. The latter opinion is also shared by Björn Gillberg and Ulf Qvarfort, among others.

The present, existing â€alternatives†are nearly all based on copper. The copper is toxic and being as hard as it is, the copper bullet only expands acceptably at a very high velocity. You could load these bullets in a 7 mm Rem Mag or a 300 Win Mag, but hardly in any of the slower European calibers. If the velocity at impact is not high enough, the bullet does not expand, but goes right through, like a full metal jacket. The consequences are long escapes, tracking and unnecessary suffering for the wounded animal.

Therefore, we fully comply with the official letters of the SVA* and the Swedish Hunting Association to the Swedish Government, in which both organizations express their opinion of postponing the lead ban to a time when reasonable alternatives exist.

To be able to continue hunting at all, it must be guaranteed that the killing of the animal is done in an ethical way. Therefore we need to keep the lead – at least for the time being!

PS At hunts for roe deer, moose and wild boar , 6 tons of lead is used every year - at practise and sporting, another 50 tons.

PPS Attemps that the American Army have made, using bullet cores of nickel and tungsten, have been terminated, since this material turned out to be carcinogen.

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Posted 12 April 2007 20:48 Hide Post
Nosler is looking forward as there will be many lead bullet bans coming up in the next few years.



Frank

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Originally posted by El Deguello:
This is certainly going to affect those of us who shoot round lead balls!

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Originally posted by fredj338:
This isn't about protecting the enviroment, it's about erroding our ability to shoot/own firearms. They can't ban guns but they can make them useless by messing w/ the ammo.

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Originally posted by .366torque:
Yep! The sumbeaches. Sounds like a new approach to slow down guns. The funny part is, they're organized. If we banned together the way they do, our voices would be heard. As Hogkiller says "Ignore your rights and they'll go away".

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Originally posted by CCCP:
The Swedish lead ban January 2008 is postponed. Most likley will lead in rifle bullets be allowed in the future according to the current proposition from the departments for the enviroment and chemicals. Lead in shotgun shells will only be allowed when hunting mammals like hares, foxes and roe dears. Clay shooting is limited to steel or alternative
pellets, not a big problem when you have a modern 2 3/4" or 3", but a bit awkward when you like me love old british damascus barrels with 2 1/2".

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Originally posted by KSTEPHENS:
lets see 'em ban wheel weights.

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The present, existing â€alternatives†are nearly all based on copper. The copper is toxic and being as hard as it is, the copper bullet only expands acceptably at a very high velocity. You could load these bullets in a 7 mm Rem Mag or a 300 Win Mag, but hardly in any of the slower European calibers. If the velocity at impact is not high enough, the bullet does not expand, but goes right through, like a full metal jacket. The consequences are long escapes, tracking and unnecessary suffering for the wounded animal.

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The bullet is designed for longer ranges and high speeds that can be achieved with large cased 7mm Calibers. It will be at it's best when used in barrels with a twist rate of between 1:9" and 1:10.3". Speeds of 3900fps are reachable with calibers such as the 7mm STW with 26" barrels. The bullet will mushroom reliably from impact speeds as low as 1600fps with 100% weight retention and at impact speeds of 4000fps weight retention of better than 50% is expected.

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Originally posted by Jagter:
Apparently according to Norma's website:

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The present, existing â€alternatives†are nearly all based on copper. The copper is toxic and being as hard as it is, the copper bullet only expands acceptably at a very high velocity. You could load these bullets in a 7 mm Rem Mag or a 300 Win Mag, but hardly in any of the slower European calibers. If the velocity at impact is not high enough, the bullet does not expand, but goes right through, like a full metal jacket. The consequences are long escapes, tracking and unnecessary suffering for the wounded animal.

Re the bold part above:

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The bullet is designed for longer ranges and high speeds that can be achieved with large cased 7mm Calibers. It will be at it's best when used in barrels with a twist rate of between 1:9" and 1:10.3". Speeds of 3900fps are reachable with calibers such as the 7mm STW with 26" barrels. The bullet will mushroom reliably from impact speeds as low as 1600fps with 100% weight retention and at impact speeds of 4000fps weight retention of better than 50% is expected.

Learn more about the best premium copper bullets on the market here.

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Originally posted by DPhillips:
California is currently awaiting their Dept of Fish & Wildlife's (or whatever their Fins and Feathers Dept is called) recommendation from studies on the lead ban issue in the condor's range. There is likely to be a ROD issued sometime early to mid summer. I don't think anyone is anticipating positive results in that state for lead containing bullets.

I suspect bullets are much like cars, as California goes, so goes much of the rest of the union. As it stands now, Barnes has a huge corner of the market share, Nosler is playing catch up. I can't see where others will just stand still.