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No flack intended here. Has there ever been noted dangerous levels of lead detected in people eating game birds? All the lead bans are centered around wildlife eating game remains left in the field, or ducks eating lead from the bottom of wetlands, lakes, streams, etc.

I don't bitch too much about using non-lead for big game since I've seen the proof of lead left behind in meat. Plus, the copper bullets work so well. Recover a bullet and weigh it, that'll tell you how much lead in left in the meat.

I've never bitten into a pellet (and I've eaten my share of game birds), but I have had pellets fall out into my dinner plate.

But I get it.

A thought, and one you'll never hear from any government agency. You get too much lead and the lead goes out of your pencil. A fellow millwright told me about that one. It took a year for his levels to come down.

I grew up on a delta but I never was interested in waterfowl hunting. Standing up to my @$$ in mud with sleet driving into my face never interested me. I know I'm a wimp. After wildfires burned out a couple of places we hunted deer, my partner suggested an area next to the border. There are turkeys as well, he said. Well no, they closed a week before. But I looked on that prairie duck gun that I was left with renewed interest.