Lead in your pistol?

I carry lead projectiles in my pistol while hunting

  • Always

    Votes: 36 63.2%

  • Never

    Votes: 8 14.0%

  • Sometimes

    Votes: 13 22.8%
  • Total voters
    57
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If you carry a pistol while hunting does you pistol bullet contain lead. With more states requiring non lead projectiles while hunting whats in your pistol?
 
Woops; I voted wrong. I voted "sometimes" before I read the original post, and "assumed" it was about "lead bullets" VS "jacketed".

All of my bullets contain lead; some are jacketed, and some are cast.

Daryl
 
I misvoted. I don't hunt, so I clicked "never", and then remembered that the heavy .357 bullets I carry in bear country are hardcast. I assume that the OP was asking about unjacketed lead vs. jacketed, not lead vs. copper or some other material used to make a bullet?
 
I have one case of 38 spcls that are lead free I use for target practice, otherwise its either lead or jackets lead. I figure that one box qualified for a sometimes answer.
 
I don't hunt any longer.
So all my handguns will have lead based bullets in them.
If I were to hunt here in California,
Either I would avoid hunting in the so-called "Condor zones"
or use all-copper ammo like Cor-Bon DPX for hunting.
Given that I don't hunt though,
I can still legally carry lead in the Condor zones.

The entire lead issue is well over-blown.
Considering the amount of lead bullets and shot expended over the last 225 years, versus how little (in comparison) is expended today in hunting, if lead were to be a significant problem for the Condor (or other animals) we would have seen them die off around 1910-1930 instead.

This is becoming a crusade, not for public benefit, but to benefit the crusaders so they can point to "progress" against something. It's the same with auto pollution. Today's automobiles -- all the cars in the state combined -- put out less engine pollution than the 604,000 cars in California when the first state highways were paved. Yet the crusaders want even tighter emissions restrictions.

The same applies here. The "science" involved in the lead issue is sketchey at best. The so-called "micro dust" of lead found in game meat shot with lead bullets has been around since the first guns were used.

Since the Condor is a carriorn eater the appropriate tactic would require hunters to gut their animals to remove lead bullets and/or sack the gutpiles for removal. This would greatly reduce lead exposure in varmint animals killed by sportsmen without having to ban lead shot or bullets.
 
Always lead. I do not think there are any non-lead bullets launched from a handgun that are capable of punching through some of the things we have to shoot up here.
 
With the exception of my SD pistols, the only thing any of my revolvers see is lead SWC's. Now if I get a place in CA I'll load up some Barnes and at least put 'em in my pocket.
 
I only use non lead stuff if it is the only thing available at the time. I do use JHP ammo in my sidearm if I am hunting in an area populated by livestock. Not for worry of lead contamination, rather for overpenetration. That is a very rare occourance for me. Usualy if hogs are raiding the livestock feeders, and I am having to eradicate them, without being able to move the livestock.
 
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