How about these ;-)
I can see the product advertisement:
"It takes brass balls to hunt with a flintlock in these parts!"
I can see the product advertisement:
"It takes brass balls to hunt with a flintlock in these parts!"
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Non-Toxic Round Balls
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Why round balls? If you had to switch over to a non lead projectile, i'd use a conical.
This one is copper.
Those bad boys kick butt in our cabelas hawken with 110gr pyrodex rs.
This one is copper.
Those bad boys kick butt in our cabelas hawken with 110gr pyrodex rs.
Guys,
I read and learn from all of you.
Some I agree with, some I don't.
But when are you all, going to kick ass out of the dumb ass liberals, who promote this no lead zone. Muzzleloaders have been using lead balls for over 300 years, now they want you to use cotton balls........what next arrows without sharp points?
Give me a break!
Old Ford
I read and learn from all of you.
Some I agree with, some I don't.
But when are you all, going to kick ass out of the dumb ass liberals, who promote this no lead zone. Muzzleloaders have been using lead balls for over 300 years, now they want you to use cotton balls........what next arrows without sharp points?
Give me a break!
Old Ford
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just use lead free solder to cast in a mould. expensive but is the right size. or very close.
do you all really think the lead police will check each and every hunter? will they have a way to test the balls of each hunter? the balls for the gun I mean. :surrender:
thats why this old man does not live in the state of califorina .
do you all really think the lead police will check each and every hunter? will they have a way to test the balls of each hunter? the balls for the gun I mean. :surrender:
thats why this old man does not live in the state of califorina .
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If you're going to do that (the solder casting - not the ball checking) you might do better to order lead-free casting pewter from Rotometals.com. Close to the same composition as lead-free solder and about 1/3 the cost.
PS CJoe - you might be sorry when she holds them up to the light and turns them all around for a careful look and thumbnail test! :shocked2:
PS CJoe - you might be sorry when she holds them up to the light and turns them all around for a careful look and thumbnail test! :shocked2:
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Old Ford said:
The answer to the first question is never.
Game wardens here definitely DO check what ammo a hunter may be carrying. Of course they only look at the outside of the cartridge so I guess one could reload a steel shot shell with lead. For muzzleloaders they will look at your shot or bullets. They can't tell what is in the barrel but you'd better not have sabots in your pouch. How they could tell if a ball is lead or tin I don't know but I think it's pretty funny that even though most of us are not yet subject to the non-tox restrictions we are already talking about how to sneak around them. :haha:Norinco said:
Hmm, never had that happen around here to either me or my friends. Then again, the limited hunting I do is on private property.
They could carry around devices to check for lead. Every element has a unique spectrum when hit with light. All they have to do it hit the ball in question with the laser beam and the device will read off the chemical composition. The analysis of the light from the sun is how humans discovered that helium exists. The light spectrum from the sun didn't quite add up to what was expected from hydrogen.
They could carry around devices to check for lead. Every element has a unique spectrum when hit with light. All they have to do it hit the ball in question with the laser beam and the device will read off the chemical composition. The analysis of the light from the sun is how humans discovered that helium exists. The light spectrum from the sun didn't quite add up to what was expected from hydrogen.
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Norinco said:
Lots of lead pellet checks here, basically every time you encounter a warden. And based on reports from friends who hunt there, in Missouri too. I hear that it varies a little from place to place with state wardens, but the folks from the US Fish & Wildlife service always check.
Here's another factor I've run into up here. The staties that have checked me on deer and small game hunts are really curious about our sport and ask lots of questions having nothing to do with laws, just to get better acquainted with it. One seemed personally fascinated with traditional muzzleloaders, and I've invited him to shoot with us and try the guns for himself. Busy season for him right now and it's yet to happen, but come this winter I really hope to put a smile on his face and make another convert.
There is a marker pen that tests for lead in paint and on porcelin. Rubbing a ball on a piece of ceramic and then testing the rub mark would indicate lead.
Apparantly not, as it can tell lead solder from lead-free solder. At least the one I just Googled.
http://www.leadinspector.com/
http://www.leadinspector.com/
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I don't picture the wardens driving up in a remote lab vehicle with a gas chromatograph so the test kit was just pure speculation.
Go ahead and ask your local fish-cops what they plan on using if the need arises . . . and perhaps get the Eye of Sauron looking in your direction. Not me.
I am CERTAIN they will not want any added duties like this, anyway. I've never had anyone measure my broadheads . . . though I did have to present all my shotshells once when grouse hunting on state lands during deer season.
"Would you place one of your balls on the HAZ MAT spatula, please?"
Go ahead and ask your local fish-cops what they plan on using if the need arises . . . and perhaps get the Eye of Sauron looking in your direction. Not me.
I am CERTAIN they will not want any added duties like this, anyway. I've never had anyone measure my broadheads . . . though I did have to present all my shotshells once when grouse hunting on state lands during deer season.
"Would you place one of your balls on the HAZ MAT spatula, please?"
