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I do use flintlocks, they are great. Can't talk about bow hunting, it's illegal. But if it wasn't......

Taliban have signed a peace treaty Gav ,dont think youl need all them now 

According to that video it is a voluntary ban they are looking for. None of the shooting organisations are legislators which is a good thing. I am not going to volunteer, but will continue t

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7 minutes ago, timmytree said:

In part I agree with you, but if it becomes law rather than voluntary what can you do? Production of leadshot will be stopped eventually then we'll have no choice. The EU I've just found out is already implementing a ban which is probably why they have invested millions in a new factory in Italy producing alternatives. There will be a ban on UK game being sent over there.

This is a voluntaryy ban at the moment supported by all the shooting orgs, maybe it would be better to actually  try and work with it and maybe prevent a total lead ban?

Well err no because it's BOLLOCKS.

Bring it on I say, then we can have more out laws. Like the drug dealers, people traffickers, slave labour, child abusers, sex workers. We can all be branded the same, yippee.

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4 minutes ago, timmytree said:

In part I agree with you, but if it becomes law rather than voluntary what can you do? Production of leadshot will be stopped eventually then we'll have no choice. The EU I've just found out is already implementing a ban which is probably why they have invested millions in a new factory in Italy producing alternatives. There will be a ban on UK game being sent over there.

This is a voluntaryy ban at the moment supported by all the shooting orgs, maybe it would be better to actually  try and work with it and maybe prevent a total lead ban?

what planet are you on. Are some sort of anti Brexit merchant that's a load of nonsense.  Individuals don't export game or ducks to the EU its only big game dealers and since when did any ban stop people  doing what they want anyway. The troubles in Ireland were a good example of that.  For the individual weekend game shooter you can easily make enough cartridges in your kitchen.   back in my grandfathers day they shot everything with their homeloads and they shot a load and they made everything from the ground up.

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3 minutes ago, timmytree said:

If that's true it shows that a lot of duck shooters don't care about the laws. That's their choice, but maybe that's why we are now in the situation where all the major groups supporting shooting are now calling for a voluntary ban?

If that doesn't get support then we will get a total ban eventually. For us we should be looking at damage limitation, not hastening the end of shooting by getting arsey about it.

And maybe that's not the reason !

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"Calling for" that the latest bollocks that all the crap local tv station reporters come out with.  I think that we all should be  "calling for" the orgs to be disbanded.  Still I  exppct that their all a load of loveys anyway.

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17 minutes ago, timmytree said:

If you actually take in what I'm saying, you may understand that it's voluntary, you as an individual don't have to change anything if you don't want. Shoot whatever you like with whatever load you want. I'm just trying to explain that all the orgs that support shooting are suggesting we look at changing our ways. It's not law so don't get upset. You have 4 or 5 years to think about it.

Im getting upset because these orgs are paid by their members to represent them and their activities.  These orgs have taken it on themselves to sell those interests down the river without even questioning this.  All this so called evidence isn't even looked at.  The total nonse of it all is that if I shoot a pheasant flying over a river with lead that's ok.  But if I  shoot a duck flying over the middle of a 20 acre ploughed field with lead  then I've broken the law.  The fact that lead has been used for hundreds of years and is far more effective at dropping game and not wounding it doesn't even come in the frame. How dare the orgs claim to call for anything.  Their acting like the labour party did before the election.  Red rag to bull.

Still if the virus takes hold it might thin some of the world population out and things like this will become a non event.  If it got hold on that cruise ship just wait until it gets into some of these refugee camps with 60,000 people crammed into a postage stamp. It's getting bad out in northern Italy so there might be problems in getting any alternatives.

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1 hour ago, timmytree said:

Well at the moment it's voluntary, maybe there will be an exception for older weapons since the game shot with them is unlikely to end up in the commercial food chain, neither will they be shooting the hundreds of tons of pellets that modern shotguns use. Maybe if the wildfowlers had stuck by the law on lead shot we wouldn't be facing this now? I read earlier that 70% of ducks in this country are still shot using lead. The law hasn't been enforced and shooters have ignored it so now there's a crackdown.

Wildfowlers  have stuck to the ban on lead religiously. So much so that any member having a lead cartridge with him on a marsh will automatically be excluded from the club.

No the ducks shot with lead are from syndicates and pay per day type duck shoots. Wildfowlers are squeeky clean on this.

The ban is voluntary for now but the shooting orgs are asking mp's to draft legislation to ban it in law. 

Oh and the factory built with EU money is in Spain not Italy.

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Sod it all the keyboard has melted.  I'm off to do some paperwork and watch some porn.  Before they ban that.  Doing the paperwork late at night that is.

Edit.......  Be kind

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11 minutes ago, timmytree said:

You are correct, my apologies, so at the moment they won't be stopped by coronavirus.

Regardless of which individuals shoot ducks, 70% of those inspected were shot with lead. Syndicates and day shoots should have been stamped on then because that kind of irresponsibility doesn't do the rest of us any favours.

It's the same as people that drive without insurance, the rest of us end up paying for it.

No it's not "regardless of which individuals shoot ducks" you specifically blamed wildfowlers for it and they are certainly not the problem.

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27 minutes ago, timmytree said:

I would say that anyone who shoots wildfowl is a wildfowler. I shoot rabbits, does that make me a molecatcher?

If anyone shoots ducks with lead they are breaking the law. I think we can agree on that?

No a wildfowler is specific to shooting on marshes and foreshore.

People shooting ducks off ponds etc are not wildfowlers.

Yes shooting ducks with lead is breaking the law. 

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5 hours ago, timmytree said:

lets call them duckshooters then? 

Either way, we're all confronted with the same problem. Some people break the law and end up screwing it up for everyone. Dunblane and Hungerford ring a bell? Knives restricted because of idiots and criminals. 

 

Yeah, like how handgun crime went up after the ban, knife crime has gone up not down after dumb laws. Banning lead has not necessarily stopped duck shooters using it....ring any bells!

Yeah, banning stuff just makes more crims, it does not necessarily remove the problem.

And Hamilton of Dunblane has nothing to do with this issue.

He worked on the chief constable to get his ticket via the free masons after most his local pistol clubs turned his membership down after the probation period. He had to travel miles to a club that finally was cooled by him.

The chief constable had 70 recommendations to revoke his license but chose to do nothing. It was a total system failure, a system quite adequate at preventing arses obtaining firearms was screwed by the very one in charge of it!

Again, Ryan could of been stopped sooner than later but the chief constable at the time refused to give the one(!) firearms officer permission to use his firearm to stop the murdering.

In both cases the police actually aided the bloodbaths!

But we pay for their mistakes....and some want us to bow to them! ???

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Totally agree ,BASC ,boys association for Salmon and claret proposed this and got it accepted ,mm anyone asked to vote on it thought not.Basc say pay more and get a 10 year licence oh dear sorry we lied .

Basc come up with a crackpot scheme where doctors know you have firearms and so do all their staff and it wont cost a bean ,oh damn we all know how that went ,que the Chief constables rubbing their hands with glee another hoop for these pesky gun owners to jump through.And surprise the 120k a year G,P,s decide to charge an arm and a leg to say yes nowts happened since his last renewal or just say we object sod off we aint signing anything .

A little word of advise for BASC ,when no one can afford to shoot tungsten bismuth cheese cartridges or afford G,P,s charges do you think you,l have any members to pay subs or do you think the gravy train might be in the bottom of the ravine mm .

I voted with my feet last year as did  few dozen of my compardres , i do think the tap has been opened and you,l see a flood of ex BASC members 

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11 hours ago, terryd said:

The ban will only apply to shotguns.
They need to get exporting this stuff over here.

 

as for the old guns standard steel and bismouth I guess. Got few years yet so not an immediate worry.

You can get Hevi shot over here. I have some. 

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