If a particular Eagle or large fish-hawk, or whatever you wish to call it, is dumb enough to eat a lead fishing sinker or an entire 30-30 slug and croaks because of it, its no evidence that the lead is a danger to the resource overall. I quit shooting lead at waterfowl when it became the law and when I became convinced it was a danger to the waterfowl population (not neccesarily the same time), not because I was afraid a particular member of the population might be harmed.

If we worried this much about everything that might harm a buzzard or a raptor, we'd have to take down all the power lines and close all the highways. The Condor is a perfect 'poster boy' for the anti lead guys because there are so few of them to begin with, and anything that harms one of them might well be a danger to the population. There probably would not be any left outside of zoos anyhow if it were not for the interest and support of conservationists, led by sportsman...Geo