Rookhawk, I don't think a requirement to shoot nontox on state lands for doves necessarily means woodcock are next. There is a certain potential threat where woodcock are concerned, because the feds can regulate since they're migratory. But here in WI, where we also have to use nontox on state lands for doves, the natural resources board suggested nontox for EVERYTHING on state lands by 2015. Handily voted down by those who attended the DNR's spring meetings. Of course that's not binding, but people with a functioning brain realize that dove hunting and woodcock hunting are pretty much polar opposites. For the former, you've got a lot of people clustered around the same field, depositing a fair amount of shot. For the latter, you've got people being very secretive about where they find their birds, and as a result extremely low levels of lead shot accumulation. Not that logic always prevails, but woodcock hunting and dove hunting are about as far apart as they can get. Virtually the only common factor is that both birds are migratory.
