Eagles eat on a carcass or a gut pile but who’s hunting deer with birdshot? If the bullet isn’t a thru/thru it’s generally lodged against a rib bone or under the skin on the off side. Good big game bullets don’t fragment its why we use them this is BS of the highest order. I have the bullet from my first bull elk. Jacket was still with the lead core. 165gr BTSP Sierra sitting on 56.6 grains of 4831 Hodgons powder and a Rem LR primer. They can try to talk to stupid but they can’t bs a hunter. IMFO.
-—Hunting deer with birdshot——” Some of the upper Midwest and Eastern seaboard states don’t allow high powered rifles for deer. But shotguns are permitted so then comes rifled slugs and OO Buck pretty much all of which are lead. But one would have to more or less just shoot the eagle to give him lead poisoning using this stuff. No self respecting baldy would chew on a 12 ga slug for long?