Environment and Climate Change Canada recently released two reports on the use of lead fishing tackle and lead ammunition. They are encouraging the use of non-lead alternatives for both fishing tackle and ammunition. What do you think? Links to the full reports are included below.
Moving toward using lead-free fishing tackle: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment...ng-tackle.html
Moving towards using more lead-free ammunition: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment...mmunition.html
load of crap...
Lead is not being released into the 'environment'...95% of bullets are shot into the butts are the local ranges and the vast majority of that is recaptured and recycled.Quote:
375 million cartridges are imported into Canada for recreational shooting, hunting and enforcement activities. This ammunition releases about 5,200 tonnes of lead into the environment annually.
The vast majority of what is shot while hunting is buried into the ground in remote isolated areas after a thru and thru or they are recovered while butchering.
Blaming Hunters/Shooters for contaminating the environment with their spent bullets is total poppycock.
I'm not going to worry about it. There are worse contamination sources out there!
Just an other tree hugger/antigun nazis BS.
Maybe,EC should concentrate more on the mercury in environmentally correct "green" CF bulbs that end up in landfills if they don't burn down your house,first,when they ignite during burn out.
99% of my fishing tackle is already lead free( flies, rattle baits, steel hooks with carp bait or eggs), I shoot copper bullets, and steel shot. How the heck am I the problem. Even for hunting grouse I use #7 steel just so I can carry a few waterfowl loads and be legal. Last time I bought a case of #7 steel it was maybe two bucks more then lead. That is less then one XL timmies.
They are just looking for an easy target, and because people know "NOTHING" about hunting and fishing we are it.
I can understand the lead sinker issue, but they are overreaching on the ammunition aspect.
so isn't lead taken from the environment originally?
Aren't we just putting it back from whence it came?
What is said above. Last time they cleaned one of the ranges, the butts were run through a huge filter machine and the contaminated soil trucked off to (Hamilton) if I'm not mistaken.
As usual MikePal , you are dead on.
Here are a couple of very interesting articles on lead poisoning;
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/lead/health.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning
I would think there is far more natural lead in the environment than gets spread around by firearms. You will get a concentration in gun clubs of course certainly at trap and sporting clays ranges but that is a contained area and has nothing to do with hunting. This is just another way to get rid of firearms. The irony is it will retire many old fixed choke guns and cause the manufacture and sale of new guns which can shoot steel.
as for rifles ammo manufacturers will convert to copper and other non toxics. It won't make people quit hunting which is the real intent. Trudough is pizzzing off more people every week. This will mobilize more people "against him" than win some over.