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Lead shot is prohibited for waterfowl hunting, but is still the preferred
shot for all upland hunting. The reasons for the different treatment (as I
understand it) is two-fold. First, waterfowl hunting tends to concentrate
the shooting (as resulting ammunition deposits) into small areas, and tends to
involve much more shooting (and missing) than other types of hunting.
Secondly, and more importantly, lead shot falling into the relatively shallow
water where duck hunters tend to shoot was entering the food chain more readily
than is likely to occur in upland hunting situations.
Where the use of lead shot continues to be a management problem tends to be
at shooting clubs, where lead shot is concentrated.
Ken
>>> "Alex J. Sagady & Associates" <ajs@sagady.com> 10/30/03 04:09PM >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enviro-Mich message from "Alex J. Sagady & Associates" <ajs@sagady.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- At 03:18 PM 10/30/2003, you wrote: >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Enviro-Mich message from Rane Curl <ranecurl@engin.umich.edu> >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >It is really very simple. The mourning dove is a songbird, and people do >not think songbirds should be gamebirds. If you understand why songbirds >are protected, you have the answer to your question. > >--Rane L Curl Can someone please verify that lead shot is still commonly used in ammunition for hunting.....?? I was under the impression that there were controls on lead shot for duck hunting but not upland hunting. I don't have strong feelings about hunting of doves either way. What rankles me is the continued use of any lead shot at all....anywhere, anytime under any circumstances at all. I don't care about hunter arguments about lead shot not having the "killing power" of steel shot. As far as I'm concerned, hunting/sport dissemination of lead shot over the countryside in the name of "sport" is completely unjustified, broadscale lead contamination of the environment with no redeeming benefit at all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alex J. Sagady & Associates http://www.sagady.com Environmental Enforcement, Permit/Technical Review, Public Policy, Evidence Review and Litigation Investigation on Air, Water and Waste/Community Environmental and Resource Protection Prospectus at: http://www.sagady.com/sagady.pdf PO Box 39, East Lansing, MI 48826-0039 (517) 332-6971; (517) 332-8987 (fax); ajs@sagady.com ========================================== ============================================================== ENVIRO-MICH: Internet List and Forum for Michigan Environmental and Conservation Issues and Michigan-based Citizen Action. Archives at http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/enviro-mich/ Postings to: enviro-mich@great-lakes.net For info, send email to majordomo@great-lakes.net with a one-line message body of "info enviro-mich" ============================================================== |