Originally Posted By: Bret Adams
Lead poisoning of ducks, was a very real problem here in PA, 30yrs. ago, up around Pymatuning. If you shot a duck, and could feel very little meat on the breast, you would find a lead pellet in the gizzard. This area had a large volume of shells fired over it, every year. I agree with banning lead, in a place like that, or a high volume dove field, but I think banning lead for upland, big game, etc. is silly, where the chances of an ingested pellet are very remote.


That would seem to be the logical approach. However, some of the lead restriction proponents want to be more "aggressive" in their approach. And unfortunately, some of those people work for our fish and game departments.