Preacher, it is amusing to see you are concerned about repetition concerning the lead ban threats that have the potential to negatively affect both our vintage doubles and future participation in the shooting sports.
The lead ban threads might not get so contentious if it wasn't for easily refuted garbage like LGF posted, that the anti-lead advocates are afraid to answer. For instance, if lead shot was truly killing vast numbers of waterfowl before the ban, then why did the damage stop so abruptly? Large numbers of ducks should still be dying slow deaths since thay are still feeding in the same shot contaminated waters. All of the lead shot deposited in lakes, ponds, estuaries, and swamps over a couple hundred years should still be there. There was no Super Fund cleanup. Many of these migratory birds are wintering in countries where lead shot is still legal too. And they almost totally ignore all of the other environmental sources of lead that is/was in much more bio-available forms, and deposited in far higher quantities.
How about the highly questionable data in all of those non-peer reviewed studies that have been posted here by the anti-lead guys? Most come from rather anti-hunting and very agenda driven sources. We've seen great disparities in what supposedly constitutes lethal blood lead levels in both waterfowl and various raptors. The differences are so stark that you'd have to be blind to accept them as factual and credible. One study these fools cling to cited a sick eagle that had blood lead levels that were said to be so high they were far beyond lethal and literally off the charts. Yet this bird was miraculously strong enough to be found perched in a tree. I'd be embarrassed to believe utter bullshit like that.
In one Thread, our ex-CIA Intelligence Analyst posted a dishonestly edited version of the Audobon Society's position on restrictions on bird hunting. He went on to deny his own quoted post, and got highly pissed when craigd called him out on his edit of the truth. Is it any surprise that civility goes out the window when people pull crap like that? What is even more pathetic is that a few exceptionally thin-skinned guys then whine and cry to Dave Weber in order to get the threads locked or deleted
I’m really sorry to see some say that lead ammunition bans are inevitable. The best way to have that happen is to simply give up the fight, or to vote for the anti-gun Democrats who are behind it.
