Rook,
the shotgun slug hunters do remove their kills (at least the meat portion) when the recover them. ARound here, they tend to not recover a bunch of wounded ones. But be that as it may, what I was referring to specifically was a study done by the MN DNR showing that slow moving lead when fired into dead sheep as test targets did not fragment, whereas the higher velocity lead from bullets designed to expand did put fragments of lead throughout the carcass and not just in the gut pile. This was a concern to some folks that were worried about eating lead-laced meat. Of course, for all practical purposes occasional ingestion of lead metal by humans is not terrifically problematic anyway such as it is for raptors.

As I recall the differences in fragmenting between shotgunners and muzzleloaders on one hand and rifle hunters on the other, was quite substantial. Simply plucking the rifle slug out of a gut pile was not going to get the job done particularly well.

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BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)

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