Getting the most bang for your buck

With a hurried need for copper ammunition, Will Pocklington turns to Corinium Rifle Range for professional assistance on a bespoke load

I knew the time would come eventually; it just so happened to be a few weeks before my annual trip to stalk fallow in South Lincolnshire. “Oh, by the way, we’ve switched to copper-only,” the keeper told me as we firmed up a date. I’d been intending to move away from lead for a while; it was a case of waiting for the last of the soft-points in my cabinet to disappear. What I hadn’t anticipated was the difficulty in getting hold of lead-free factory ammunition in fairly short order. The price hike was unwelcome but expected; fruitlessly canvassing not-very-local gunshops to find something suitable was a tedious pain in the haunch. It would be quite easy to get tangled in the detail of how this limited sample of shiny Cu performed,…

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Shooting Times & Country (Digital) - 1 Issue, 14-Jun-2023

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