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Old 12-23-2013, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by "W" View Post
Read this yesterday, liberals
We've been studying lead free primers for several years and started studying terminal performance of lead free bullets in 2012 with Joe Caudell.

The lead free technologies have not yet caught up with lead-based bullets and primers, and they may never catch up. Even when/if the performance gap closes, there may always be a significant price gap.

Most of pressure is political and not tied to sound science showing that the lead free technologies really solve or mitigate legitimate environmental problems, just the PC sense that "lead is bad" so "unleaded must be better."
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