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The science of killing with bullets was figured out long ago, there are two schools of thought and both work well with correct bullets. High velocity with an expanding bullet that develop so called shock and the big bore large diameter bullets producing a big hole. The big bore handgun hunters found out that shooting any big game with round nose or semi pointed bullets constructed with lead or a solid jacketed alloy at handgun velocities slipped through the flesh causing much less damage than an expanding bullet and while they will certainly kill their performance is pretty much described in the posts above. With lead two things can be done to help, a large hollow point or a semi wadcutter design as in the Keith cast bullets that instead of slipping through flesh the sharp edges cut and cause a wound channel with much more damage and bleeding. With solid copper it is all about high velocity, at shotgun velocities there is little that can be done to get any expansion at shotgun speed. Most I have seen are fired with a sabot making their actual diameter even smaller than the gauge. The best bet for improving performance with copper slugs is some kind of semi wadcutter configuration that will shoot accurately. Al

Barnes bullets are good ones, if they shoot well out of your rifle you are all set. Al

The 7mm family of hunting cartridges is versatile and well suited for a wide variety of big game including Deer. The 7 mags are at the top of the heap when it comes to power and trajectory. I think the 7 mag is a good choice when hunting an area with the possibility of long range shots that may occur such as hunting stands over looking large fields where shots may be several hundred yards. Also if a hunter has it in his head to some day take a trip out west or hunt Canada for Moose or Caribou a 7 mag would have you covered. My personal experience with the 7 mag is only one Moose but I have been a long time user of a 280 Remington that I handload for and for all intents and purpose I can pretty much duplicate factory 7 mag ballistics. With that cartridge I have taken a bunch of Deer and several Moose with total satisfaction. I do not like explosive bullets for big game, I like and stick with the proven performance of Nosler partitions that combine reliable expansion and penetration for good clean kills. Al

Can't wait for Sharknado 4, 1 through 3 corny as Hell and piss your pants funny. Al

I have eaten them a couple of times and have to admit they were pretty good. They don't last too long around my place, this one tried to move into the "Storm and Strife's" flower garden and quickly found out it was not a very good idea. Al

Perceived problem would be easily resolved with better and more explicit instructions on the dos and don't of preparing all game meats for consumption in both the big and small game hunting syllabus and also touching on the same in depth for new hunters taking the hunters training course. Of course anyone with a half a brain knows what the real agenda of all this baloney is. Al

Huntscreek I did catch the show and thought it was decent but like you say too many commercials. That seems the norm these days 55% show 45% commercials. diplomat019 asked airedale- do you hunt yours? I've watched youtube vids of airedales in the field. they seem like great dogs for fur and feathers ================================================= Yes I do hunt my Airedales and have been a big supporter of the breed since the late sixties, as you have already noted they are a versatile breed and will hunt just about anything that walks crawls or flies. I have a hunting with airedales blog and also run the Traditional Working Airedale message board since 2004 so one can say I am somewhat obsessed. The Blog has quite a bit of hunting Airedale info and many hunting photos for any that may be interested Al http://huntingwithairedales.blogspot.com/2010/07/hunting-with-airedales.html

All it takes is a little diligence and extra care when preparing any game meat for consumption. Personally I do not want any kind of metal in my meat including lead, jacket gilding metal, copper, bronze, steel shot, hevi shot or bismuth shot. It is not that hard to remove the vast majority of these projectile metals from your meat with a little work and I believe most hunters do this. Any meat that I suspect having metal in it that I can not remove is discarded. I think the big culprit in those lead contaminated findings is the meat having been ground up. There are apparently some with a waste not want not attitude that will try to utilize every scrap of meat they can from their animals and this is where the problems most likely come from. That unappetizing meat from around the wound channel that should be discarded run through a grinder along with other tough cuts comes out looking great and I am sure even tastes great. Now if there is any metal in that meat from around wound channel guess what, having been run through a grinder contaminates the whole batch. Anyone that has made sausage knows how all the spices are distributed throughout the batch after having been run through a grinder a couple of times. Bottom line is that any meat suspected to contain any metal that can not be removed must be tossed and I do think it is done by the majority of hunters, if those simple guidelines are followed then any metal contamination if any in the meat that happens to be consumed will be so small that it would insignificant health wise. Al

Nice pose, he is a beauty for sure, congratulations. Al

Perfect example of Doc's quote "cheapening a legitimate argument by trying to expand it into the ridiculous"

I have had many similar experiences growalot, wildlife habits do change when they do not feel threatened. Sometimes this behavior even can be beneficial as in the case of this young English Coonhound Lulu who attended and completed a course at the university of "TriTronics" and learned it is not a good idea to be chasing Deer.

Good looking dogs guys, look forward to catching that show this evening. Al

My family home where I grew up was a farming community and Woodcocks were a common sight. Many times I witnessed the Woodcock's flight display and the distinct sound their wings made as they circled high in the sky. This fellow's video brought back some memories.

Take care of your game meat properly and the lead consumption issue is insignificant! Al

I think I caught part of one show while channel surfing and what I saw I liked. The problem I have is the two outdoor channels I get have are what to me is unorganized programing, seems like the lineups change on a weekly basis. The old OLN network had a pretty good set schedule and it was easy to stay up on favorite shows because they were always broadcast the same day and time slot. Hunting With Hank and the later Dash in the Uplands was easy find and view, Al

Love watching hunting dogs work so I will check it out. My favorite bird hunting show was "Hunting With Hank" it was produced right and I sure would like to see something along those lines come back. on the air. Al

I have seen and heard of plenty of powerball winners but have never seen or heard anything with 100% certainty where a person who ate game meat shot with a lead based bullet in the hundreds of years they have been used that got sick from doing so and neither has anyone else. Pretty good odds in my book! Refined sugar is probably one of the most destructive substances Humans consume, it causes more maladys to our bodies than just about anything over the short and long run. If you health crusaders are serious wanting to take up a cause finding a solution to a health concern this would be a good one and it is actually real. Just saying!! Al

"This boils down to an anti-hunting initiative," says Jess Brooks at Barnes Bullets, one of the leading manufacturers of non-toxic bullets. "It's as simple as that. We're not looking at this as a bullet-sales tool at all. We're looking at it as an issue to divide hunters and thin our ranks."

To say the current administration we have in this country has nothing to do with this subject is laughable, for me it is the biggest most obvious single indicator of all that this lead bullet crusade does not have much of a foot to stand on when it comes to human health problems. Because he can not get any gun control legislation passed our president on national TV in an address to this nation said he will on his own pursue anything and everything by any means find a way to get something positive done for his anti gun agenda. Like I posted earlier a ban or restriction on lead based ammo would be the holy grail. The problem is that this line of attack will go down in smoke because anyone who has been involved in hunting and the consumption of game meat shot with conventional lead bullets knows of no case of anyone getting sick!!! Al Mike Rossi Says "Be Serious" I am dead serious Mr Rossi, I take this president for his word when it comes to gun control, this administration just a few years ago tried to ban the sale of green tip 223 ammo, There is no question in my mind if they not only look at firearms to control they are also looking at any possibilities with ammo. and if they can find something to use they will. Al

can you just dismiss all that is in red above from the CDC? The answer to your question is absolutely for the simple reason I butcher and properly take care to remove and discard any questionable meat that I suspect may have lead in it. If by chance any got by me the amount would be insignificant. I have a better chance of hitting the Powerball Lottery than getting lead sickness from venison I have eaten. Al

I hunted a setup similar to that some years ago. I tried hunting the edges but in my particular case while there was still light all I was seeing were does.The bucks always stayed inside the tree line until it got dark and then they would come out. Well back before the game cams of today I had my my best luck when hunting a place like that looking for any well used game trails from the woods into the corn or hay fields and set up a stand in a place set back in the woods fifty yards or so where I had a good view of the trail. I ended up getting three bucks from that area all staying inside the tree line waiting to hit the field when it got dark. Al

Outdoor life's Online Editor's take on Mr VLYWaterman's study 0 In its story, which shock waves through wildlife agencies and hunters’ forums, the AP went on to describe the dire symptoms of lead poisoning, but reported that “no sickness has been reported from lead-tainted venison” in North Dakota. This “study” has some profound implications. Are we hunters really injecting poison in the meat we bring home to feed our families? If so, then we need to know how we can help stop the epidemic. Is this North Dakota study just the leading edge of a public-health and conservation tsunami that will change the way we hunt? Will we start viewing the succulent backstrap from last fall’s buck not as healthy, fat-, hormone- and antibiotic-free protein but as contamination that can cause “confusion, learning problems and convulsions… brain damage and death,” as the AP reports? Coming on the heels of California’s ban on lead bullets in the historic range of the endangered California condor, this news report from North Dakota would be especially unsettling if it wasn’t so flimsy. For starters, the source of the health scare is suspect, even if his motivations are pure. Dr. William Cornatzer is a dermatologist, not an epidemiologist. Plus, he is on the board of The Peregrine Fund, an Idaho-based non-profit dedicated to raptor conservation that has lobbied hard to ban lead from condor country. The group is holding a conference in May entitled “Ingestion of Spent Lead Ammunition: Implications for Wildlife and Humans” (www.peregrinefund.org/Lead_conference/). Is Dr. Cornatzer’s study designed to foment outrage over home-freezer contamination leading up to the conference? Then there’s the scientific validity of the study itself. Cornatzer’s initial investigation found detectable levels of lead in 53 of the 100 one-pound packages of ground venison he tested, according to the AP. That’s significant, but is it replicable? A follow-up study by North Dakota’s state health department found lead in all five samples of venison it tested. Disturbing, yes. But not as disturbing as the actions of public-health officials who extrapolated from this tiny sample that all hunter-harvested venison should be discarded. Then there’s the oh-really nature of this report. I’m no Butcher Shop CSI forensic analyst, but I have a very hard time imagining lead “dust” in the hindquarters of my lung-shot deer. I have cut out jellied, bloodshot meat from many a front shoulder, but have difficulty believing that a bullet that passed through left debris in the backstraps or in the rump roasts. But then, I butcher all my game myself whenever possible. For me, it’s the satisfying conclusion to a successful hunt, cutting and wrapping and labeling packages of protein that will sustain my family for the next year. And I am very careful that the meat I preserve isn’t contaminated with hair, dirt or blood. I don’t like taking my meat to commercial butchers because I don’t know how they will handle it. Will they take the same care I do to trim off bloodshot meat? Can I be sure I’m getting my own meat back? Do they grind unblemished meat with some that may be compromised? Most butchers do a top-notch job, but some probably cut corners. Did the Bismarck samples come from shoddy meat shops? Maybe a follow-up study should look at practices in commercial meat shops and not implicate hunters who kill animals with lead bullets. Or maybe a study should investigate the prevalence of lead poisoning in hunters’ families. As in the very real lead-paint epidemic of the 1960s, there should be evidence of the problem in the population. If I’m poisoning my family, I want to stop. And if bullet-spraying hunters are a public-health menace, let’s discover the depth of the problem and systematically resolve it. But I want to make those decisions based on peer-reviewed science, not alarmist do-gooding. - Andrew McKean

To say the current administration we have in this country has nothing to do with this subject is laughable, for me it is the biggest most obvious single indicator of all that this lead bullet crusade does not have much of a foot to stand on when it comes to human health problems. Because he can not get any gun control legislation passed our president on national TV in an address to this nation said he will on his own pursue anything and everything by any means find a way to get something positive done for his anti gun agenda. Like I posted earlier a ban or restriction on lead based ammo would be the holy grail. The problem is that this line of attack will go down in smoke because anyone who has been involved in hunting and the consumption of game meat shot with conventional lead bullets knows of no case of anyone getting sick!!! Al

Not so fast, says the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which issued a news release proclaiming that the study confirms that traditional ammunition is not a public health risk. The release, in part, reads: As noted in a media advisory released by the North Dakota Department of Health, the highest lead level reading of an adult study participant was still below the CDC accepted lead level threshold for that of a child, and significantly lower than the CDC accepted lead level threshold for that of an adult. Furthermore, during a tele-press conference hosted by the ND Department of Health, officials stated they could not verify whether this adult even consumed game harvested with traditional ammunition. Correspondingly, the study only showed an insignificant 0.3 micrograms per deciliter difference between participants who ate wild game harvested with traditional ammunition and non-hunters in the control group. November 6, 2008Special EditionCDC Study Shows No Health RiskAssociated with Traditional AmmunitionA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study on human lead levels of hunters in North Dakota has confirmed what hunters throughout the world have known for hundreds of years, that consuming game harvested with traditional ammunition poses absolutely no health risk to people, including children, and that the call to ban lead ammunition was and remains a scare tactic being pushed by anti-hunting groups to forward their political agenda.Today, additional information became available about the CDC study, originally released yesterday, that is important to disseminate to hunters, their families and the general public about the total and complete lack of any evidence of a human health risk from consuming game harvested using traditional ammunition. For instance, in the study the average lead level of the hunters tested was lower than that of the average American.In the CDC's study, children's lead levels had a mean of just 0.88 micrograms per deciliter, which is less than half the national average for children and an infinitesimally small fraction of the level that the CDC considers to be of concern for children (10 micrograms per deciliter). Yet, despite the total and complete lack of any evidence from this study of the existence of a human health risk, the Department of Health nevertheless urges that children under 6 and pregnant women not eat venison harvested using traditional ammunition. The North Dakota Department of Health's recommendation is based on a "zero tolerance" approach to the issue of blood lead levels that is not supported by science or the CDC's guidelines.To further put in perspective the claims concerning the safety of game harvested using traditional ammunition, consider this statement from the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) -- a state agency that has conducted an extensive panel of blood-lead testing for more than 15 years: "IDPH maintains that if lead in venison were a serious health risk, it would likely have surfaced within extensive blood-lead testing since 1992 with 500,000 youth under 6 and 25,000 adults having been screened." It has not.

Here is one guy's solution. Animals Need a Paving Moratorium Road banning helps more than mere road planning, especially because new roads initially generate more roadkills than old. The equation is simple: fewer roads equal fewer motor vehicles and roadkill. Replacing 20 cars with one bus, and 50 trucks with one train, would reduce congestion on present highways and postpone or eliminate the "need" for new ones. This could revive our ailing public transit and mass freight systems. Another simple equation is too controversial for most people to embrace and most lawmakers to endorse: Fewer affluent people, and fewer people generally, equal fewer motor vehicles, fewer roads and fewer roadkills. Legislators can reduce the speed and enhance the safety of our cars. Enforced speed limits would afford greater protection for every animal on the road, and for every motorist as well. But as long as automakers manufacture cars capable of cruising at 110 m.p.h., twice most legal speed limits, whatever lawmakers dictate will be disobeyed by chronic speedsters. Silent but deadly, next century's electric cars pose the greatest risk of all. With dwindling and damaged habitat, animals are losing ground in humanity's broader war against wildlife. In time, the rate of roadkill will declineónot from lack of cars or roads, but from lack of wildlife. Mark Matthew Braunstein authored "Radical Vegetarianism" and is a nature photographer. He is paraplegic, so he has an excuse for driving. The whole article here. http://www.culturechange.org/issue8/roadkill.htm