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Eleanors38

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7. I talked with an employ of an ammo manufacturer

Reply to ManiacJoe (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 6, 2014, 12:58 PM

Feb 2014

a few yrs back, and he said that within a few more years, most hunting ammo would be non-toxic. I also read in F & S where copper bullets for big game performed similarly to lead-based bullets. Nothing new, here.

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