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MY LEGACY: Gas Prices, Cold Fee, and a Leadless Life |
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--By Jim Matthews
Optics Quest, Day Three: News and….Running out of gas, blisters on the feet, and a cold coming on, the optics quest was winding down.
I spent too much time in the Legacy Sports booth www.legacysports.com, my friends from Reno, but they are the new importers of Kahles optics. My old buddy, VP Andy McCormick, insisted he was going to be selling these top-quality Austrian riflescopes for less than Leupolds. European optics makers have a tendency to tell Americans what they want in a scope, instead of listening to our needs. Kahles, the world’s oldest riflescope maker according to Legacy, finally started listening and has American-themed scopes in a one-inch line. The retail pricing starts at about $800 for the 3-9x42 models, which means you can sell them on sale for less than $700. Beyond cool.
Non-Lead Ammo, Day Three: A Tangent. Walking through the ATK booth I was diverted. There was CCI’s TNT Green .22 Win. Mag. ammo www.cci-ammunition.com. Whoa! I had to know more. CCI's Brett Olin told me he got the project in December and product was going to be on the market by spring. That might not mean much to you, but for those of us in California who are being forced to shoot non-lead ammunition for big game and varmints in the range of the California condor, this was big news. Olin said that regular .22 rimfire and .17 rimfire stuff would soon be available, but it was likely to be more expensive than lead-based loads. The turn-around time from a lead ban in December to new product on the shelves is remarkable.
The CCI discovery got me looking at non-lead products in factory loadings. I did a quick survey of Winchester’s www.winchester.com non-lead Nosler E-Tip loads, Federal’s www.federalpremium.com TNT Green and Barnes X and MRX non-lead loads, along with Black Hills Ammunition’s www.black-hills.com and Weatherby’s www.weartherby.com Barnes-based non-lead loads, and there’s no one loading .30-30 ammo—and about half of the other big game hunting calibers used in California—with non-lead bullets. Imagine that. California guys are going to have to buy new rifles or take up handloading. While it happened for all the wrong reasons, this is merely a sales opportunity.
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