A government rendering personal property useless without compensation may have happened in this country but it has never happened to me. I don't plan to stand around and let it happen without voicing my concern and putting up a fight.

As far as a low cost substitute for lead as a projectile, have you checked the periodic table of elements. There are no equals to lead for characteristics vs. cost.

"I have watched videos of guys shooting...." That is a real qualifier for an opinion! "you cant shoot geese and turkeys in the chest and expect them to die", what do suggest wait for the geese to land? You can not shoot geese on the wing even at close range and guarantee pellets in the head and neck every shot. Fact is steel pellets are so hard they go through the bird, exiting and leaving a wound like an arrow. Lead pellets are more prone to not fully penetrate and thus impart the full potential of each pellets kinectic energy on the animals nervous system. Lead kills with body shots far more than steel shot and one can not count on broken wings with every shot to stop them.

Hunters have lost too much over the years and if you have been at for several decades you'd know. Hunter's have made compromises and it seems to be the case of cooking the frog by turning up the heat slowly. Those of us who have felt the water boiling so "no more".

We are losing open land to hunt but we have also lost hunters and much of it due to over regulation (and I have worked at a Wildlife agency so I know). Right now it's a drag race to see if we are going to run out of hunters before we run out of land.

In your posts I am reminded of so many people who embrace liberal political positions. They put themselves out there and say 'I care more about the issue" and "I am doing something". It doesn't seem to matter if what is being done is really doing a bit of good, it makes the person feel better for doing it.

I have no idea how old you are but I suspect your relatively young. Don't be so quick or willing to give up any of your present freedoms, they will be taken away from you sooner or later by our Nanny state government mentality.

Last edited by nhcrowshooter; 01/28/08 09:21 PM.