Thorny,
Lead was banned at 21 of Missouri's conservation areas for ALL shotgun hunting, including doves, rabbits, upland birds, squirrels and turkeys. For 2008 another lead free shot ban will encompass dove hunting on DOC lands statewide. So far, Minnesota is lead free only for dove on state lands. Which, leaves ruffed grouse, pheasants, sharptail grouse, prairie chickens, spruce grouse, (these are the birds Missouri, hunter friendly as it might be, is woefully lacking in) and small game as leaded stock here in unfriendly for hunting, when compared with Missouri, I guess, Minnesota.
Pigs will fly before lead is ever legally fired at a duck again in North America, or an 8 gauge is permitted for same. Liquid sunshine being piped into a body cavity, plain and simple.
There are quite a few clays course in the United States that are now, or will be, in the next five years, completely lead free. California, and Arizona, pushed by environmentalists, will be lead free for all hunting, California potentially being leadfree in 2008, with the bill to outlaw lead bullets sitting on Gov. Schwarzenegger's desk as we type.
So, explain to me, where is this time of which you speak?
Best,
Ted
