Even the Feds behave like that when they are here.
I couldn't access the full articles...I guess I can cross tungsten off the list of possibilities.
Why is the lead poisoning rate on condors steady to rising when there has been 99% compliance to a ban in their range and it's been in effect for what? 10 years?
Personally, I hope all of them. As it is wardens set up a hunter road block on the Foresthill divide and give out all the tickets they want to write for over limits on squirrels when it opens. Those guys make quail hunting more exciting than it needs to be.How many 22's will now sit in a safe instead of bringing squirrel to the table?
I'm leaving Saturday.
I attended one of Roster's clinics... I didn't think I could put up being around him for several days in the field.....
I've got a video Roster made about how to shoot birds at long range with steel. He was shooting Honkers while hiding in cattails with another guy who had a laser range finder and a third guy with the camera. He'd call the bird he was going to shoot out of the flock and would kill it in the air with one shot. He did this about ten times with the longest shot being 73 yds. Maybe he crippled and lost birds he didn't get, I don't know but he did apologize once for a shot he made that killed the bird because it was a little far back on the bird.His testing did prove you can kill birds with steel shot. BUT, from my experience, I've witnessed way more birds (pheasants/ducks/geese) crippled and not recovered from shooting steel than could possibly have died from ingesting lead shot.....Some of the expensive no-tox options are not bad (Rem version of original Hevi-Shot) but plain steel is just garbage for other than close shots IMHO.
I don't know if he still does it but for $20 he used to come up with reloading recipes for a component list and shot weight you'd send him. I did that for a bunch of empties I had and he sent me the recipe but not until he tried to convince me I should do something different that I didn't want to do. Strong personality.
I've got a video Roster made about how to shoot birds at long range with steel. He was shooting Honkers while hiding in cattails with another guy who had a laser range finder and a third guy with the camera. He'd call the bird he was going to shoot out of the flock and would kill it in the air with one shot. He did this about ten times with the longest shot being 73 yds. Maybe he crippled and lost birds he didn't get, I don't know but he did apologize once for a shot he made that killed the bird because it was a little far back on the bird.
My experience with steel is that I can't seem to get the same feel with it that I had with lead. I don't shoot it enough anymore to get a good groove but that said, when it's on the bird it kills them just as dead as lead and just as far.
I've only shot a couple of pheasants with steel and they got the Golden BB. I plan on doing a bunch of patterning with small shot for smaller birds although they've postponed the requirement for steel on doves and quail until after somebody will have taken my keys away anyway.
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