Forums.NitroExpress.com

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact NitroExpress.com: Boycott Barnes Bullets!

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies

*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

You are not logged in. [Login]

Main Index · Search · Active Topics
New user · Who's Online · FAQ · Calendar

Double Rifles, Single Shots & Combinations >> Double Rifles

Kalunga
.333 member

Reged: 16/06/06
Posts: 328
Loc: Germany

Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!
05/03/09 09:38 AM

As I told earlier on this forum, lead containing bullets were banned in one part of Germany because it is proven that eagles have been killed by eating dead animals that contained bullets or part of bullets made from lead. It had nothing to do with lead contaminating the soil, which obviously doesn`t happen to a degree worth mentioning. But in Germany there are only very few eagles and I think it is a good idea to protect them, even if we hunters have to adjust our equipment. I have killed buffalo with Barnes X and TSX bullets so it should be no problem to use lead free bullets (any brand) for shooting wild boars, deer etc. Also it is proven that lead particles from conventional bullets contaminate the meat of the animal shot with it and that is another reason to think about lead free bullets.
That the lead free bullets were banned at a later time had to do with an accident where a ricocheted bullet killed a person and the authorities quickly acted although it is still not clear if a conventional bullet would have been safer in that particular case. As far as I know there is still some research going on to get reliable data on ricochet behaviour of bullets. Here in Europe there is a lot of competition going on with lead free bullets and many hunters use them with good success.
BTW, I use Lapua Mega in my 9,3x62 and Woodleigh SN in my .470 but I admit that lead has some disadvantages and may cause a health risk to animals and humans under certain circumstances.

Kalunga

Post Extras

Print Post

Remind Me!

Notify Moderator

Entire topic
Subject	Posted by	Posted on
Boycott Barnes Bullets!	bonanza	05/03/09 03:03 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	mickey	05/03/09 04:21 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	DuggaBoy	05/03/09 03:52 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	9.3x57	05/03/09 04:28 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Tatume	05/03/09 04:38 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Tatume	05/03/09 04:44 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	9.3x57	05/03/09 05:02 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	450_366	05/03/09 05:35 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Tatume	05/03/09 08:53 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Kalunga	05/03/09 09:38 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	NitroX	05/03/09 01:36 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	9.3x57	05/03/09 01:57 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	450_366	05/03/09 05:34 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	500grains	05/03/09 01:44 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	mickey	05/03/09 04:43 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Kalunga	05/03/09 05:49 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Kalunga	05/03/09 06:05 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	450_366	05/03/09 09:35 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Kalunga	05/03/09 09:56 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	450_366	05/03/09 10:21 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	9.3x57	06/03/09 12:53 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Ripp	06/03/09 02:13 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	bwananelson	16/03/09 08:26 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Bramble	06/03/09 07:09 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Tatume	06/03/09 08:03 AM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Ripp	06/03/09 01:07 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	450_366	06/03/09 07:14 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Tatume	05/03/09 12:28 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Bramble	05/03/09 12:47 PM
Re: Boycott Barnes Bullets!	Der_Jaeger	05/03/09 01:05 PM

Extra information

1 registered and 45 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator: CptCurl

Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Thread views: 7211

Jump to

NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact

Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved