To all,
As an avid sportsman, I have read many articles on the impact of lead
shot and lead fishing sinkers. Many of them were well written, provided
excellent scientific data, including the numbers of bird, duck, eagle,
loons, tern, etc. fatalities directly attributed to lead pellet
ingestion. The loon population is especially sensitive to this.
The Minnesota DNR and other state's natural resources departments do
attempt to record every single animal that is found to have died of lead
poisoning, or nearly so. They have compiled excellent statistics on the
impact of lead ingestion in birds, fish, and animals, and excellent
reports and articles.
Unlike electronic lead, where the theoretical danger is leaching of
extremely small amounts of lead into the groundwater, which most of us
believe is statistically insignificant, direct ingestion of lead is a
real problem for the critters. The efforts to ban lead in shot and
sinkers is well-justified and should be respected.
-----Original Message-----
From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James, Chris
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:33 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [LF] Lead-free bullets
Also bottom feeders ingesting shot landing in shallow water - same
argument went for lead line weights "split shot" used as float weights
Regards,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frank W
Sent: 28 September 2006 16:18
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [LF] Lead-free bullets
From what I understand. The main reason for pb free shotgun ammunition
was because of ducks(waterfowl) wounded not killed and then affecting
the predators such as fox..
Werner Engelmaier wrote:
>Hi Greg,
>While TURI studied alternatives, no study to determine to what extent
changes
>were actually needed was undertaken to my knowledge.
>The studies I have seen of the impact of Pb-ammunition on ground water
>contamination showed no significant increase in Pb-levels down stream.
>Are there any studies that actually show a problem with Pb-ammunition
as well
>as fishing sinkers and wheel weights? For Pb-additives in gasoline
there was
>a clear impact on Pb-levels.
>
>
>
>Werner
>
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