HEVI-Shot's New HEVI-XII Tungsten Waterfowl Loads

@River_rover The reason lead shot was banned is ducks will use fallen shot as grit and ingest it. This concentrates lead levels in their tissue impacting human health. Specifically hunter health and that of their families.

@Tassiebush Don't hunt ducks. Have spent 62 years eating grouse, sandhills, rabbits, all kinds of critters killed with lead shot (and cast lead bullets). Last lead test was 1.6 uG/dL, 2.0 is national adult average. The woke war on lead is nothing but a witch hunt. Stopped hunting waterfowl for just that reason. And now it's any game hunted on federal refuges, not just waterfowl. Screw 'em.

@River_rover Didn't realise that restriction was now applied outside of wetlands!?
I totally agree with you then!

@Guest Simple blood test. Takes about 5cc's. Costs $30 to $60, depending.

@Guest It is, but blood doesn’t really tell the whole story.

@River_rover Thanks for being such a great ambassador for the hunting and shooting sports.

@Guest Well, blood is but one type of tissue. The tissue we’re concerned about for lead’s low dose cumulative toxicity is in the brain. Blood does not always accurately reflect levels of other substances, either, so this isn’t unique. Think K in muscle vs blood, or cannabinoids hiding in adipose.

Read about the lead-crime hypothesis, and consider that the negative effects of lead happen at fairly low levels, and are usually subtle. Few people are going to walk into an ER and say: “hey doc, I think long term, low-level lead exposure has altered my decision making skills, and now I’m doing illegal things”. Instead, they come on TFB and brag about committing federal crimes by shooting waterfowl with nickel plated lead shot, and are quite proud that it has “not” affected them.

@Guest The dude I replied to above claims to use it mixed with steel shot to fool the game warden.

@ I speak and write english. You don't need to translate my words. And I'm still a ways from my 70s. I was taught to poach at four. I don't blame liberals for anything except when they act like idiots, like you. I guess my use of the word "woke" triggered you. But you go on blindly obeying every law they throw at you, it is touching how you love big brother.

@Andrew Again I don't hunt waterfowl. I was objecting to the USFS requiring non-lead shot for upland hunting (which they do on my local refuge). And you're taking me way too serious. And yes, lead accumulates in many places, including the brain. But for someone who grew up in the 50s and 60s, the source is not going to be tainted game or handling ammunition. It is going to be tetraethyl lead in gasoline, which poisoned several generations thru air pollution. I am unlikely to submit myself to a brain biopsy to find out, but I do keep a careful eye on my blood levels, as I cast a lot of bullets and eat a lot of game harvested with lead. I am trying to make sure the problem doesn't get worse. Those of you born after the introduction of unleaded gas are lucky in at least one way. Anyway, thanks for the ass chewing, I needed to be reminded that my brand of humor sometimes alienates.