11th generation English Gunmaker with a passion for innovation.
The HSE consultation period here in the UK has ended. They have made some revisions to allow certain athletes to continue to shoot lead ammunition for target shooting. One has to ask, which manufacturer will continue to make this ammunition in such small quantities? To produce it will no longer be commercially viable surely? Air … More Why is lead ammunition being banned
Those of you who haven’t been living under a rock will know that the UK, Europe and the US (7 states) are or will be banning or restricting heavily the use of lead ammunition. Here in the UK, the sporting organisations such as BASC, Countryside Alliance etc are pushing ahead with a voluntary move away … More Hortonium on Fieldsports TV
As it says in Aesop’s fable, the Crow and the Pitcher, necessity is the Mother of invention. When the ‘voluntary’ lead ban was announced many years ago now, many in the industry thought it would never happen, yet it is. We at Horton & Sons knew it was to become an inevitable conclusion, to be … More Hortonium latest, International patent pending
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