Condors or Lead Ammunition? (2015) • Hacker News Board

Re: Condors or Lead Ammunition? (2015)

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Post by _tulpa » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 1:31 AM UTC

buserror wrote: post #27

_tulpa wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This whole argument is pretty weaksauce. Learn to use the non-toxic stuff or stop doing it and just buy your meat. Either way don't go spraying a bunch of toxic heavy metal all over the show just because it's "humane" - lead poisoning is pretty inhumane. There's also no practical reason you can't have biodegradable plastic cups for steel shot. I grew up hunting, mostly bigger animals, I never bought meat until I move…

There are no biodegradable plastic cups -- ask McDonalds. No need to respond to the rest of your post, as you didn't bother reading mine anyway. Go back to hunting stationary target with 50mm rounds, it's perfect, you'll never find the carcass anyway.

My point is 'out of range' is different when you use steel. The subtext of the OP is that you'd totally use lead if it wasn't illegal. Which exactly the same backwards 'hurr durr desk-sitting city environmentalist ruining everything' mentality that nearly every single 'hunter' I know has now.

> There are no biodegradable plastic cups

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradable_plastic - Why not?

Re: Condors or Lead Ammunition? (2015)

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Post by blarg1 » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 2:31 AM UTC

just use depleted uranium

Re: Condors or Lead Ammunition? (2015)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 4:02 AM UTC

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Re: Condors or Lead Ammunition? (2015)

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Post by FireForce » Sun, Dec 08, 2019, 10:11 AM UTC

harimau777 wrote: post #2

It seems questionable to me that the article doesn't discuss differences in performance or other drawbacks of non-lead bullets. I'm not an expert, but a quick Google search suggests that they may be more expensive, less easy to find, and more likely to pass through targets. I found at least one article that claimed they may have greater stopping power since they do not break up in the target as easily. However, I hav…

It's worth noting that steel core bullets are often banned as "armor piercing" rounds, despite that fact that most worthwhile hunting cartridges can pierce body armor.