LGF,
Thank you for your views, obviously spoken from what appears to me an informed source.
BUT, may I take issue with you on a couple of points.
All of the scientific papers and presentations mention 'millions of dead birds from lead ingestion' but as of yet have never shown photographic proof or hard evidence.
The majority of waterfowl species are not dabbling birds and many do not feed in the margins, lead being a heavy metal does not fall through the water and lie on the surface of the silt awaiting the ducks to harvest it.
Please show me the hard facts and science and I will fall in line.
Water bailiffs tell me they have never found a dead waterfowl on their waters that as died from lead ingestion.
As for the NRA doing anything, forget it, the sole purpose of getting elected to any national board is self esteem, if you have any revolutionary ideas when you first get into office they are soon knocked out of you by the clique.
Our major sporting organisation in the UK the BASC said they would support a ban on lead shot when an economical, viable , efficient alternative with similar characteristics to the performance of lead was readily available.That as never happened but they now do nothing to fight the imposition of a total ban on lead.
If lead shot is such a bad thing why do we not see hundreds of dead ducks on the commercial gameshoots here in Britain where the owners breed and raise thousands of partridge and pheasants and hundreds of mallard in the same fields and coverts. Shoot thousands of lead shot per week over their land in the pursuit of the bag, yet we don't see Duck limping around emaciated and oosing green facaes all over the place?
Just my thoughts, I'd rather kill a bird dead with lead, than cripple with steel.
