Shotgun shells, yes. That lead is a problem, as it sprays everywhere. Two pellets may kill the target, but the other 100 went rogue, small enough to be consumed by other wildlife such as Condors, cranes, water fowl, ground birds, fish, and reptiles, that are effected by lead toxicity because they eat the stray shot over time. Then it goes up the food chain.
If it’s birds you’re worried about, then cats are a bigger problem than led. Animals aren’t stupid; they know he difference between food and non-food. Big birds like condores don’t peck for rice. They tear off chunks of meat from a carcus. It’s not like every animal on earth is lead loaded! Geeze!
Cats kill millions of birds every year, lead bullets don’t.
There has been a ban on lead shot nationwide since 1991 - a patchwork of individual states for several years before that.
I guess, assuming this stays in effect, we’ll see what difference it makes.
In my experience there are definitely more than two pellets in a typical bird. But it is fair to say that only a small fraction of the pellets hit the bird.
Lead ammo for waterfowl is still banned by federal law. State laws also still apply, so states that ban lead ammo and tackle are not affected.
, but the other 100 went rogue, small enough to be consumed by other wildlife such as Condors, cranes, water fowl, ground birds, fish, and reptiles
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So that other 100 rogue is scattered on the ground?
And Condors, cranes, ground birds, etc., eat it?