A study, then another ban? "Ingestion of Spent Lead Ammunition"

[Thin Black Line]

If you bagged your own buck, turkey or whatever with "lead ammunition", then heads up. (Bold by TBL)

Date: Wed 21 Nov 2007
From: The Peregrine Fund
Location: Boise, Idaho, USA
Venue: Boise State University
Dates: 12-15 May 2008


The goal of the conference [convened by The Peregrine Fund] is to promote a
better understanding of ingested spent lead ammunition as a source of lead
exposure and to reduce its effect on wildlife and humans.

Justification: evidence of the effects of lead on human health has led to
large scale restrictions on its use in the United States, including the
prohibition of lead in gasoline and paint. Bald Eagle consumption of
contaminated ducks and geese contributed to the 1991 ban on lead shot for
waterfowl hunting. Recent evidence of lead exposure in arctic subsistence
hunters, who continue to use lead shot, suggests that the ban on behalf of
eagles in the US may have benefited humans as well. Lead ammunition is
still used in America for hunting game other than waterfowl, and the extent
to which lead is secondarily ingested by wildlife and humans has been the
subject of recent investigation. This conference brings together experts in
the fields of human health and wildlife to consolidate this knowledge and
explore the potential health hazard of game hunted with lead bullets, which
may be significant in some sectors of society.

<snip>

As many as 80 contributed papers and posters are expected to provide new
empirical data on this subject. The conference will conclude with an expert
panel discussion of research needs, and appropriate responses to control
lead exposure from spent lead ammunition.

Flyer that includes caption "Radiograph of spent lead ammunition fragments in a rifle-killed deer":

http://www.peregrinefund.org/Lead_conference/Flyer March08.pdf

 

[ArmedBear]

The goal of this conference is to give a bunch of academics something to do, a foundation some excuse to beg for money to pay their staff, and a bunch of tie-dye-wearing idiots something to screech about.

We have too many people who need publications and conference participation in their RTP. Far too many.

 

[TexasRifleman]

Radiograph of spent lead ammunition fragments in a rifle-killed deer

I'll take my chances. I might even lick a Chinese made toy over the holidays.




Dear Government,
Please don't protect me, I'll take care of myself thanks.....

 

[Titan6]

Interesting. I wonder if they will study military bases where families live, work and play yet billions of rounds have been fired into the enviornment?

 

[mekender]

the interesting part about that original study was that it was the same reason used to ban DDT... bald eagle damage... since there was not a whole lot of proof in the 1970's im curious to see what proof there was in the 1990s

 

[eliphalet]

The goal of this conference is to give a bunch of academics something to do, a foundation some excuse to beg for money to pay their staff, and a bunch of tie-dye-wearing idiots something to screech about.

Never have I seen it stated better.
The surprise in all that is the amount of folks the screecher's manage to get to listen to them, and the sometimes ridiculous ideology that can come from it.

 

[wacki]

I'm curious why people find this kind of research offensive. If lead is *substantially* harming wildlife wouldn't you want to know? There are alternatives to lead:

http://www.hevishot.com/home.html

So it's not like it's putting the entire sport of hunting in jeopardy.

 

[LAR-15]

I can see them getting Feinstein or Schumer to pass a total ban on lead bullets in Congress, exempting the police and military of course.

 

[Gifted]

Don't bald eagles eat fish?

 

[Quiet]

They passed a lead ammo ban in CA earlier this year.
Something to do with saving condors.

After it passed in CA, antis around the country started gearing up similar legislation for the rest of the nation.

Microstamping, which also passed in CA, is also being exported to the rest of the nation via Senator Ted Kennedy.

 

[LAR-15]

Bald eagles will eat what they can take.

Usually they do eat fish but eating a deer carcass or catching a duck is not out of the question

 

[gc70]

If lead is *substantially* harming wildlife wouldn't you want to know? There are alternatives to lead:

An alternative to lead? How about depleted uranium!

 

[RobTzu]

All ammo should be made of ice. It is enviromentally benign.

 

[BlazingAngel01]

They passed a lead ammo ban in CA earlier this year.
Something to do with saving condors.

After it passed in CA, antis around the country started gearing up similar legislation for the rest of the nation.

Microstamping, which also passed in CA, is also being exported to the rest of the nation via Senator Ted Kennedy.

is that why when i get lead and it says it has a birth defect in California

this is so stupid my father lives there and he's a anti-gun. you should have heard him when i joined the NRA

 

[Robert Hairless]

When I began to learn many years ago that just about everything is harmful in the food we eat and the air we breathe, I determined that I would stop eating and breathing just as soon as a majority federal, state, and local officials set the example.

So far it hasn't happened.

 

[PavePusher]

Looking at the picture, *** is someone doing using frangible ammo on deer? And an immature deer at that (at least judging by what I can make out of bone structure...) Methinks 'tis much ado about nothing...

 

[cracked butt]

Propaganda is using 'science' to design experiments or data to get the 'intended' results. Environmentalist groups corrupt science just about every time they want to push the latest 'the sky is falling' crisis.

 

[brickeyee]

I would want to know the EXACT source of that x-ray.



It would appear to be an awful lot of lead for a varmint type bullet that COULD fragment that much, and larger calibers hold together better than that.