CA Lead Bullet Ban

[14427H]

Another major source....

I was thinking about this as they have been using "guilty till proven innocent" line on condors and bullets...I know it was mentioned in studies but how much road kill do they find to eat that may be contaminated with this major source of lead? How much lead does the average highway contribute to the ecosystem from the wheel weights?

Some of this anti-hunting findings they propose have as much science behind them as proposing no driving zones and wheel weight inspections.

 

[R.W.Dale]

Being as how I spent 20 years next to the condor reserve I will agree with Snapping Twig. Besides the condors should be extinct. Their food supply is gone and the "goody-two-shoes" have ranchers kill a beef and leave it in the condor reserve so they can eat...They are a very large prehistoric buzzard and rely on large dead animals...Not many of those left...By the way...We pay for those beeves out of our tax dollars...

The Condor is much like the Panda bear in that they would have gone extinct all on their own if it weren't for the intervention of mankind. Why does the lead issue only effect condors? Turkey buzzards seem to have no such problem.

In the words of GM's president Bob Lutz when asked about Global Warming

Total crock of ......

 

[ChristopherG]

The DFG website does not indicate that lead bullets have been banned:

...the DFG and other agencies involved in the California Condor Recovery Project are asking hunters in condor range (parts of the counties of Tulare, Kern, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, and San Benito) to remove lead from the area by following a few simple steps:

* Retrieve all killed animals (including coyotes and small game) from the field, or
* Hide carcasses or gut piles by burying them, covering them with brush or rocks, or placing them in an inaccessible area, or
* Remove bullets and surrounding impacted flesh when leaving carcasses or gut piles in the field, or
* Use lead-free ammunition, in which case none of the above is needed.

Here's the site:

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunting/condor/

 

[Slamfire]

From what I read, when I followed up within the URL, was that the lead ban is not state wide.

It will be an inconvience.

I am surprised to read that the condors require human placed carcasses to survive. Vultures, big and small, do us a good service by eating decaying dead animals. Now we don’t have as much of a problem that India has with dead animals all about, but India has lost 95% of their Vulture population due to industrial chemicals, and it is not a good thing. http://www.indiatogether.org/2006/apr/env-vultures.htm

Trash pickup is a health issue. Vultures do it for free. Be nice to them.

 

[627PCFan]

So being from Md/East coast and not familiar with your prehistoric birds, your supposed to use non-lead bullets and shot, like for Candian Geese, for the condors? And then when you get your 300 Condor limit, you can shoot more lead?

 

[kimberfan]

copper? find old pennies and melt them down and make solid copper bullets.

 

[kimberfan]

copper? find old pennies and melt them down and make solid copper bullets.

 

[scrat]

ok i live in California. yep.

i cast my own too.


pure lead and wheel weights. The ban for now is just for hunting. Thank god. as i shoot black powder as well. So shooting at the ranges for now is perfectly legal.

 

[jeepmor]

So is this a boon for the Barnes all copper bullets? Drat, just the other day I was considering a 45-70 because I could shoot lead bullets.