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Bob, enjoy your hunt. It is not difficult to ID prairie chickens in flight. They look like a dumpy domestic chicken as they try to gain altitude. Here is a pic showing a prairie chicken, on the left, next to a sharptail. My son-in-law shot these on his first prairie chicken hunt in...

I have only lived in Minnesota for 4 years. I do not recall that the regulation has changed.

No. Sharptail grouse can legally be taken by prairie chicken hunters.

I have been camping for bird hunting for about 4 years. I have camped while bird hunting in Michigan, Minnesota, and Iowa. I plan on hunting in South Dakota this fall. I have done both remote and campground camping. When remote camping, I can usually stay 3 days with battery power and...

You present a very compelling strawman argument.

I am in NC Iowa for the dove opener tomorrow. I ran my dog briefly as it cooled off in the evening. She flushed two hens with very young broods. The first hen had 5 young with her. The young birds were smaller than my clenched fist. The second hen had two birds about softball size. It...

Got it. Why does it "suck"?

I think I can understand where some of you guys are coming from. The fact that lead is toxic and contributes to a myriad of health problems, and is found in game that has been shot with lead is not enough to make an informed decision. You are going to wait for a study showing that humans are...

Most discussions of banning lead in fishing tackle is for weights of less than one ounce. Tungsten is used in premium jigs. Other, less expensive alternatives such as steel, tin, bismuth, brass, and even stone are being used fishing tackle. I have switched to nontoxic alternatives for much...

No. I am not kidding. Some nontoxic shotshells cost more than lead shotshells, some not so much. Winchester Xpert shotshells in steel #7 and #6 are very effective dove and ruffed grouse/woodcock loads and are available locally for $10.86/box. Most comparable lead target and dove loads sell...

You mentioned cost. Are nontoxic shotshells really more costly than lead shotshells?

I do not think that any of us want eagles to suffer from lead poisoning. Data shows that nearly half of them do suffer from lead poisoning. https://www.voanews.com/a/nearly-half-of-us-bald-eagles-suffer-lead-poisoning-/6447550.html

I do think that many people over think the issue of choke. Part of it is marketing. Prior to the marketing of boutique, specialty chokes, I am not sure that most people thought about it much. For most all of pheasant hunting, using most any available shot, improved cylinder or modified chokes...

Reading the article and looking at the the accompanying photographs, it looks like the lead was found in the edible portions of the pheasant carcasses.

Can you provide any links to these studies that you have been reading on the mortality of hawks and eagles in San Francisco or New York City?

That is not even the question at hand. The real question is: Would you rather eat a pheasant containing an average of 39 elemental lead fragments or a pheasant with no added lead fragments? Now, since you brought it up: If Macdonald's (or any other restaurants in the US) were able to serve...

While I can agree with much of what you stated, I will disagree with you about something. If given the choice between ingesting food that contains fragments of lead and ingesting food that does not, I choose the food without lead every time. It makes no sense to me to incur such a known risk...

Got it. Realize a couple of things. First, the deaths of eagles and geese due to ingesting lead is evidence that lead is toxic. Understand too that death is not the only negative outcome when an animal, including a human, ingests a toxin such as lead.

What do you mean by the use of the term, "anology"?

I quit using lead for several reasons. First, I hunt a number of places where lead shot is not allowed. Second, I have hunted waterfowl for years with nontoxic shot. Third, I see no reason to feed my family meat that contains lead when other alternatives are available. Realize that because...