Pond Plinking?

[Barryg]

It seemed like a fun idea as it's so remote and private land as you can see by the pics but if there is any doubt about breaking any laws I won't bother

[Dornfelderliebe]

Steel bbs won't harm the environment.

[Neil54]

They do make a funny sound when they ricochet of water.
Different sound to shooting ice on a pond.

So I am told.

[Bellycrawler]

Mainly old powder burner advice to avoid Rick O'shae's. Shotgun legislation for lead shot.

[where's it gone]

If lead is banned by angler's then it's banned in water. Sure it's the wildlife act of sorts same as wildfowlers using steel. Come to think of it, it could be an EU directive.

[Anothermiss]

I think the legal wording refers to "lead shot" so pellets would potentially be a bypass of the legal issue but the moral, ethical and environmental issue remains - don't shoot lead into water.... Even though we've all done it in the past.

[Segata]

Well like I said you could still do water plinking using a decent Watergun, you can get ones with enough oomph and big enough for Adult hands (also not looking too toy like) that can knock targets over etc, can't harm anything or cause a legal issue and the Ammos near infinate.

[Jacklurcher]

I think the legal wording refers to "lead shot" so pellets would potentially be a bypass of the legal issue but the moral, ethical and environmental issue remains - don't shoot lead into water.... Even though we've all done it in the past.

Pretty much my take on it. There's been enough environmental pollution over the years, no need to keep adding to it. Just because arsenic in wallpaper and asbestos in everything was all the rage in the past doesn't justify needless pollution in the present.

[ToniD]

If lead is banned by angler's then it's banned in water. Sure it's the wildlife act of sorts same as wildfowlers using steel. Come to think of it, it could be an EU directive.

Lead banned by anglers!

Mind you, I've not fished for 55 years.

I still think I should have informed

[Black Beard]

Lead split shot was banned because of Esther Ransom's "dying Swan" campaign.

[Muskett]

Yup, and no Swan died of lead poisoning. Any that died did due to the nylon leaders attached to the split shot weights, or from the hooks attached to leader and split shot.
Modern angling have changed a lot since those days. Few fish with a necklace of spit shot under a whopping big float. No polite fisherman would leave piles of leader material on the bank either.