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Topic: As they claim; A NO BRAINER!
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Leonard
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posted February 06, 2022 12:27 PM
There is so much about this article that offends me, I hardly know where to start?
https://www.audubon.org/news/lead-bullets-are-stunting-bald-eagles-recovery
First of all, we all shoot game and then leave it laying out in the open where a raptor can spot it easily!
[ February 06, 2022, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
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Leonard
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posted February 06, 2022 01:50 PM
I’ve kept birds for many years. Some ingest gravel in their crop, these being seed eaters. Otherwise, most birds are very discriminating, and I’m not buying this claim that an eagle will just happily munch on bones and lead pellets when we know they prefer organ parts rich in iron, as a mineral, not metallic. But, getting back to exploding lead bullets left along the road in animal carcasses. And, yeah, an eagle is not above scavenging a roadkill, but now they tell us that hunters leave dead stuff scattered all over creation. I assume hunters make an honest effort to retrieve the game they shoot at. I know that I will spend hours searching for an inedible coyote and assume that rabbit hunters do the same, maybe not so much jackrabbits?
These people are telling the public that “hunters” are spending their free time just shooting anything they kick out of the weeds. Oh, and these bullets all explode inside a rabbit rather than passing through and plowing into the dirt 50 yards away.
It just sounds good but I honestly doubt that this is the rule rather than the exception. In my opinion, ANY lead found inside the digestive system would most likely be shot inside waterfowl. And that’s (what) a 5% number of cripples probably caused by being forced to use steel shot.
I got more, but I need to rest for a minute
[ February 08, 2022, 10:39 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
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