AB 821 update
AB 821, which would ban all but "non-lead" ammunition for big game and coyote hunting in a large chunk of the State, has been passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee and is now on the Senate floor.
"Why are they doing this?" you ask? To save the Condors from lead that they don't eat. Scratching your head? The theory is that the big, ugly, Pleistocene birdies eat bullet fragments they find in gutpiles and in lost game animals. The theory, however, doesn't jive with the facts. Condors eat all kinds of strange crap. Bottle caps? Yummy! Lead wheel weights? Delish!! Broken glass? Always a fine finish to a large meal! And then wash it all down with a nice spot of used motor oil.
Lead bits from the odd gutpile are the least of their problems. (The big one is that the last ice age ended. It's been kinda downhill from there for them.)
For more info, see the NRAMembersCouncils.com AB 821 information page.
As for the larger issue of lead and condors, stay tuned to this site for more info.
"Why are they doing this?" you ask? To save the Condors from lead that they don't eat. Scratching your head? The theory is that the big, ugly, Pleistocene birdies eat bullet fragments they find in gutpiles and in lost game animals. The theory, however, doesn't jive with the facts. Condors eat all kinds of strange crap. Bottle caps? Yummy! Lead wheel weights? Delish!! Broken glass? Always a fine finish to a large meal! And then wash it all down with a nice spot of used motor oil.
Lead bits from the odd gutpile are the least of their problems. (The big one is that the last ice age ended. It's been kinda downhill from there for them.)
For more info, see the NRAMembersCouncils.com AB 821 information page.
As for the larger issue of lead and condors, stay tuned to this site for more info.
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