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    Has anyone experience of solid copper heads ?

    How did you get on with them ? Are they capable of comparable accuracy to conventional copper jacketed types ? Are they fussy to load with ?

    Also, long shot, does anyone have a dimension drawing of one in .308 ?

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    Is this for game shooting?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mag44uk View Post
    Is this for game shooting?
    Not by me.

    I'm wondering if there will be a ban on lead bullets and as I have a sliding head lathe, commonly known as a swiss automatic lathe, suitable to make this kind of thing by the thousands I was thinking of trying it.

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    Some dimension info you’ll find here

    https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig3_279961452

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    Quote Originally Posted by JB101 View Post
    Some dimension info you’ll find here

    https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig3_279961452
    Good find JB, thanks.

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    BTW not all ranges allow mono metallic bullets ,Bisley certainly has restrictions on their use but I’m not sure what other ranges do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JB101 View Post
    BTW not all ranges allow mono metallic bullets ,Bisley certainly has restrictions on their use but I’m not sure what other ranges do.

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    Not allowed on any mod range afaik. Massive ricochet hazard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Born Again View Post
    Not by me.

    I'm wondering if there will be a ban on lead bullets and as I have a sliding head lathe, commonly known as a swiss automatic lathe, suitable to make this kind of thing by the thousands I was thinking of trying it.

    Swiss automatic lathe:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zymiEXw6jZU
    Lots and lots of products already on the market, Barnes, fox, GS custom, Hornady, Nosler people will but what they know works or is recommended so if it’s a business venture may not be worth the effort
    Thanks for looking

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    Quote Originally Posted by mag44uk View Post
    Not allowed on any mod range afaik. Massive ricochet hazard.
    That's interesting, as a kid I used to search the rifle backstops at a local military range and found many .303 / 7.62 size heads almost undamaged. Many more were slightly flattened and bent like bananas. I wonder why a solid copper bullet would be worse.

    The metal target frames were all clad in wood, to stop splash, perhaps copper would be more dangerous to the butt crew.

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    I just looked at the latest range regulations on the NRA site, re Bisley.

    " Lead-free mono-metallic bullets may be used during specific events that are controlled and planned by the NSC. They are otherwise forbidden."

    So, perhaps things are moving in the direction of allowing solid copper bullets in future ?

    https://nra.org.uk/nra-bisley/ranges...%20items...%20

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    Solid copper bullets

    I do not understand why solid copper bullets would be more of a problem than fmj. What are the reasons for the restrictions? Copper in the soil would be less dangerous than lead...?

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    Quote Originally Posted by amc577 View Post
    I do not understand why solid copper bullets would be more of a problem than fmj. What are the reasons for the restrictions? Copper in the soil would be less dangerous than lead...?

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    Is it?

    Copper is phytotoxic I believe
    Thanks for looking

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    NRA ranges

    I assume all spent bullets are contained in the backstops and the lead or copper would not be a danger to the public, so I remain unsure of why the NRA do not permit solid copper bullets.

    amc577

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