HORNADY ANNOUNCES NON-LEAD AMMO. Jim Matthews

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HORNADY ANNOUNCES NON-LEAD RIMFIRES

Jim Matthews, Outdoor News Service

11/19/09

While it's looking more and more like lead from hunter's ammunition is not where California condors are getting all the lead in their bloodstreams, we've had a lead ban shoved up our collective hunting gun chambers in a big chunk of the state, and that ban is likely to be extended in the next few years. The good news is that excellent non-lead bullets and ammunition is starting to come from manufacturers scrambling to make non-lead products.

Hornady Manufacturing announced the first non-lead .17 HMR and .17 Mach II rimfire ammunition that would be condor-zone compliant, along with a non-lead .22 Magnum rimfire, .204 Ruger, and .223 loadings. The new bullets are called NTXs and are available in the Varmint Express line of cartridges. Hornady will also be offering component NTX varmint bullets in .204 and .224 for reloaders, and the company has expanded the GMX line of condor-safe solid copper big game hunting slugs and loaded ammunition to include everything from .243 to .338. You can find out more at www.hornady.com/new-products.

We're still waiting for a .22 long rifle rimfire non-lead round. It has been the hardest nut to crack from a design-performance standpoint. It's coming though.

 

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GET OFF YOUR BUTTS AND CALL YOUR REPS. FAX THEM. PUND ON THEIR DOORS, AND WRITE LETTERS, OR PROTEST. DO SOMETHING SILENCE IS APPROVAL TO A "UNREPRESENTING REPRESENTATIVE" WE ARE LOOSING OUR RIGHTS LIKE AN OLD MAN SITS ON THE PORCH AND WHITTLES A BRANCH INTO A PENCIL SIZE STICK.
STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS..................THIS LEAD AMMO THING IS CRAP AND THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS IT. ONLY REASON IT PASSED IS CAUSE THE STINKIN LIBERALS WILL LOBBY AND PROTEST AND THE "SILENT MAJORITY" IS BUSY RAISING THEIR FAMILY AND ENJOYING LIFE, BUT THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE. WE ALL NEED TO MAKE OUR DEMANDS KNOWN......BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE....