California bans all lead ammo for all hunting

[10 bore]

Originally Posted by King Brown

Kensal, provide sources recent research and save me worrying, please. I killed a couple skunks with the .22 last week and went to work on the property. When I came back to dispose of them a bald eagle lifted powerfully with a skunk in its claws. I'm one of the idiots who believe lead in the diet isn't good. I'm leery that all the anti-lead papers were written by liberals!


PS---Following Sherman Bell's injunction of finding out for myself, I googled "ingested lead and raptors." Every source, state and federal, cited mortality from ingested lead in raptors in Arizona, Virginia, California, Minnesota, Montana, France, Spain, including "death from one lead shot" in bald eagles. I'll leave to you the identity of which sources are liberal or conservative but I'm a new convert until shown evidence otherwise.

Regards, King

changed my mind on my post , so I deleted it

[King Brown]

I grew up in a Nova Scotia fishing village of fierce gunners. Most of the duck hunting was done in the harbour from rock blinds on perhaps a dozen woody points with hard bottoms. Blinds were made where birds "tended."

For generations lead shot has fallen in tons within gunshot of these blinds. It didn't disappear in the muck. It's there in skeet and trap club concentrations. Ducks were a central part of our village's subsistence living.

[Dean Romig]

A bird's gizzard is a strong muscular organ which can not grind a bird's food solely by itself. It requires the bird seeking someplace where it can find grit or gravel to fill the gizzard. This is where the lead shot comes from... not necessarily from mud but from sandy or gravelly areas in somewhat shallow water. The lead shot will not sink away as readily in these areas as it would in mud.

I believe lead shot is a far more serious concern to waterfowl than lead ingestion is for any other creature, including man.

[Brad Boyer]

Socialist state of California?? Get serious!!!