[TheForge] Sighting in Rifles

Andrew Vida osan at netlabs.net
Mon Jun 18 10:46:05 EDT 2007



Grant Marcoux wrote:
> Andy:  I must respectfully disagree. Actually, the KTW was designed to
> reduce airborne lead contamination and to be a less costly alternative to
> gilding metal jacketed bullets.  S&W introduced the Nyclad (nylon coated)
> pistol ammo for the same reason.

	Well, then a pretty large contingent of the shooting community has been 
under this misconception for a very long time.  This had been discussed 
at length in rec.guns at least 15 years ago... maybe I left the thread 
prematurely.  Still, I find it hard to believe that the people over 
there got sucked that far into an urban legend.




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