Hey Larry:

Bag limits have nothing to do with fair chase. That sounds to me like some sort of ethics argument on what is enough killing. What is enough killing for you isn't necessarily what is enough killing for me. Don't try to regulate my ethics, you one-worlder. If I want to go to Cordoba and shoot a flat of shells a day, then give away the pile of pigeons for hog feed that's my business. Don't try to cram your ethics nonsense down my throat.

Neither is restricting cock pheasant harvest to the non-breeding season a fair chase issue, say allowing hunting in February, March and April as well as the fall. Any pheasant with enough color to identify as a rooster is flying well enough to make a sporting target. I shoot pheasants from winter cover in December... why not in March too? I say "if it flys, it dies!" Just what statistically valid studies can you site proving such extended season harvest would have population level impacts on pheasant? Just where, exactly, has such harvest been proven to be the sole cause of a pheasant population crash? I want studies from wild populations. Otherwise you are just a patsy for PETA.

Here are some more studies on lead and birds:

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Bloom, P.H., Scott, J.M., Pattee, O.H., Smith, M.R., 1989. Lead
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range of the Californian condor (Gymnogyps californianus). In:
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Campbell, H., 1950. Quail picking up lead shot. J. Wildlife Manage.
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marsh birds: relationships of feeding habits and grit
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in nestling American kestrels (Falco sparverius). Arch. Environ.
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Hoffman, D.J., Franson, J.C., Pattee, O.H., Bunck, C.M., Murray,
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Iwata, H., Watanabe, M., Kim, E.-Y., Gotoh, R., Yasunaga, G.,
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California condors. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 189, 1115–1117.
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on reproductive characteristics of ringed turtle doves (Streptopelia
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Kenntner, N., Krone, O., Altenkamp, R., Tataruch, F., 2003.
Environmental contaminants in liver and kidney of
free-ranging northern goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) from three
regions of Germany. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 45,
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Kenntner, N., Tataruch, F., Krone, O., 2001. Heavy metals in soft
tissue of white-tailed eagles found dead or moribund in
Germany and Austria from 1993 to 2000. Environ. Toxicol.
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