Hunting lead ban coming to Oregon?

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mannyCA

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June 2014 issue of NRA's Freedom 1st has an article on page 16 saying Oregon may start introducing California Condors to southern Oregon/Northern California, but first they need to ban all hunting with lead ammo.

Looks like the disease which started in California is spreading to its neighbors. This is too ridiculous to even think about. For everyone who dismissed California as an isolated loony bin and brushes our insane politicians aside hoping they would disappear just got a reality check. It has happened here and it will soon be in your state.

Man up, we are in this together. United we stand, divided we fall.
Whatever 2A fight we are in, no matter what state, from NJ to CA we are in this mess together.

OREGON RESIST ALL COMPLIANCE TO THE INSANITY. FIGHT.
Do as many of us here have done and DO NOT COMPLY.
REMEMBER When tyranny becomes law rebellion is duty.
 
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If the bird is to dumb to eat a 150 grain piece of lead we don't need it. Maybe they should focus on making birds smarter first.
 
The only ways to keep California Condors from getting high lead levels are to:
A) Mandate that all wildlife and peace officers use "lead-free" ammo, and,
B) Stop feeding them culled/roadkilled animals.

If they can't feed themselves, let them die!

There was a study done 15(?) years ago, when the Condors' lead levels were getting stupidly high again, but no one could figure out why. The conclusion was that they weren't feeding themselves. They were relying almost completely on the animals provided by the state, which were the result of culls, 'officer dispatched' roadkill, and even deer killed specifically to feed the condors.

They weren't being "poisoned" by hunters' lead-containing ammunition, at all. It was the government employees feeding them carcasses riddled with up to two dozen bullets per carcass, and the reliance on humans providing food, that was the entire problem.


(I no longer have a working link to the study. If anyone knows where to find it, I'd appreciate it.)
 
Here in Arizona if you're lucky enough to draw a tag for the Kaibab Nat'l. Forest oe the Arizona Strip nort of the Kaibad, Arizona requests you "voluntarily" use all copper bullets. They're so serious that they will give you a free box of copper bullets, you tell them what you need so you can work up a reload or if you're not a reloader, two free boxes of the appropriate type of your choice. Not too bad a deal depending on what you shoot. The last time the wife and I got drawn we got two boxes of 225 gr. Barnes TSX .35 cal. bullets, a $150 value for the price of our tags. That's my favorite elk bullet BTW.
Paul B.
 
Around here we don't have any Condors......our largest carrion eating bird is the Bald Eagle, and we have more of them than Korneyforney has Condors. They too have learned where the local authorities dump deer carcasses, both road kill and poached. At some point, I know one will be found dead of lead poisoning and we too will be lookin' down our barrels with all copper projectiles in the chamber. As a sportsman and a steward of wildlife, I have no problem with it if it in fact is doing something significant to help. The ban of toxic shot for waterfowl has shown us that sometimes we must find alternatives. Insanity resides on both sides of the fence, and there are extremists in both forts. The answer is to do what is right and what is feasible.
 
There was a save-the-condor lead ban in the Washington state legislature, a few years ago. I asked my representative if she'd seen any condors in Washington?
 
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