Re: Dove hunters dream trip (Caution to non-hunter
I don't know I think Darell may have a decent point about the use of lead. If a heavily hunted area sees hundreds of thousands of rounds fired in a season, season after season, it may be a slow process but how long before trace amounts of lead begin seeping into the ground water and poisoning other wildlife or even the local population. Is there a way to recover the lead or will they come up with a decent non-toxic facimile that mimics the weight and maleability of lead causing the same knockdown power at a decent price. It is probably worthy of consideration, rather than dismissal, seeing as most hunters I know are also very vehement consevationists, at least that's how I was raised. My dad even had me taking classes in conservation and hunting safety at the Dept. of Natural Resources before I was allowed to accompany him hunting.
What do you guys shoot? last dove season I got to shoot my wifes Uncle's new side by side, he got the year before at Christmas and I couldn't hit a damn thing, I think I winged two out of ten rounds fired and the trigger guard chewed both of our hands up so I switched back to the trusty 870 and became positively lethal! I love the 870, my first and only pump 12gauge! There's a great article on it in this months American Rifleman.I am right handed but shoot lefty (left master eye) and I own a right handed 870 (nobody had the lefty in stock when I got it on my 14th birthday) but I got to try the lefty model owned by a friend of the family and it was great! What I really would like to own is an old Ithica Model 37 my Dad owns one and despite his getting up there in age and rarely hunting it's the one gun he tells me I'll have to dig up the casket to get. Just a great weight, action and the load and eject port in the bottom of the reciever is so cool for a lefty like me!
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