non-toxic shot and parkers

[Kensal Rise]

Travis:
If your Parker is nice, I'd handload lead for it. Then shoot wherever and wait until the Enviro-Gestapo stops by to cut open one of your cartridges. If they find lead, claim "oops, musta grabbed the wrong shells!"
Scratches in your barrels aren't worth risking non-tox shot. Although some seems to work.

Best, Kensal

[J. A. EARLY]

Does anyone have any experience with getting caught with lead for waterfowl? Each year I go to the annual hunting show and there is the Department of Game just as proud as peacocks standing over a box of guns that have been cut in half, showing how hard they are on criminals. Never mind that there are $10,000 worth of over/unders, rifles, etc. cut in half, and it could be daddy's family heirloom gun that the outlaw kid used at night to spotlight a deer. I asked the Director why in this day and time of tight budgets would you not sell those in a lot to the highest bidding FFL holder and use the money to pay a game warden's salary, and he looked at me dumbfounded. So, do they confiscate guns when you violate Federal non-toxic shot only rules? I would not lose a Parker over $3 each shells.

[10 bore]

Originally Posted by Kensal Rise

Travis:
If your Parker is nice, I'd handload lead for it. Then shoot wherever and wait until the Enviro-Gestapo stops by to cut open one of your cartridges. If they find lead, claim "oops, musta grabbed the wrong shells!"
Scratches in your barrels aren't worth risking non-tox shot. Although some seems to work.

Best, Kensal

yes, but do they have a right to take my own shells and cut them open. i would think you would need a search warent.

[Duckman]

Around here they have an electonic device that they stick a shell in and get a reading on whether it's nontoxic or not. No cutting open. The wardens all know me and never check me but interestingly, a couple of years ago I gave the warden a Nice shot load I had made up and it failed the test. He didn't take me to task on it but it showed that the machine wasn't ready for some of the new nontoxics. It wasn't a magnetic issue either. I don't know if they have modified it yet to accept Nice shot.