Found lead shot while cleaning mallard drake

[NW-GSP]

While cleaning a drake I shot today I found what looks like #4 lead shot. The story below is the details on how I got the bird



I took my dog with me today to try to get him on birds and ended up with a great situation, found a crippled mallard drake about twenty yards out in the water so I sent my dog out after it and he didn't seem too interests in retrieving it while it was alive so I finished the drake with a 3 in bb heavy shot.  ( I let it swim out a ways so I didn't destroy it) my dog went out and retrieved it and brought it to me. This was his first retreive even though I have been Hunting with him for three years and have harvested plenty of quail and pheasants over him but he never wanted to retrieve them so I had been force fetch training him over the winter and it looks like I got the desired results.

[ghosthunter]

  :yike:Maybe you should change your diet?


Good for you and the dog.

[NW-GSP]

:yike:Maybe you should change your diet?


Good for you and the dog.

Haha , had to correct my wording but it did make the day sound allot more interesting

[Stilly bay]

how do you know its lead and not a soft nontoxic? 

[NW-GSP]

how do you know its lead and not a soft nontoxic? 

I used a magnet on it

[cliffordingles]

I found a Teal with a lead bb in it too 3 saturdays ago....

[Buckslaya]

Maybe someone hunting pheasants shot it?

[NW-GSP]

Maybe someone hunting pheasants shot it?

I shot it on the west side but hard to say where it was shot or how long ago

[Ned]

how do you know its lead and not a soft nontoxic? 

I used a magnet on it

That only means its not steel. Could me a number of other legal Non-Toxic shot.

[Heredoggydoggy]

Could be Bismuth.  Soft lead-like non toxic shot. 

[h2ofowlr]

Could have been your own shot.  Cut open one of your Hevi-Shot BB's.  You will find all sorts of different sizes in it.  They will look deformed from the start and I don't know if your magnet will pick it up!

[BK Dave]

Call CSI. This is cereal!

[Kola16]

I have found lead shot in a few pintails, and so has a buddy of mine. Is it possible that they are shot in Mexico because there is no way that all Mexicans use steel, as racist as that is 

[duckkillerclyde]

Have you had ballistics done on that piece of shot yet?  Who ever shot this should get a fine of at least $1000.00 like it says in the waterfowl regulations. 

Have you even called the police yet?   

[NW-GSP]

Have you had ballistics done on that piece of shot yet?  Who ever shot this should get a fine of at least $1000.00 like it says in the waterfowl regulations. 

Have you even called the police yet?   

I have a friend that is personal friends with a game warden so I'm going to be contacting him today and telling him all the info and give him the piece of shot if he wants to test it.

[jaymark6655]

They probably ate it, right!? 

[Woodchuck]

You sure you want to invite a game warden to investigate a duck YOU killled with lead shot in it? 

[boneaddict]

Whats the point?

Do natives have to follow that rule?   Is it a federal ban, or just washington and others?  With all of the alternatives, I have no idea what metals there are nowadays.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Since ducks migrate it could of been shot elsewhere 

[Heredoggydoggy]

So, what if it is lead.  What then?  You hit the dead end when you found the shot pellet.  Seems to me that you are going out of your way to get yourself into trouble!   

[MountainWalk]

If you've got that much time on your hands, there's stuff over here that i need help doing......

[sirmissalot]

I caught a salmon with a barbed hook in it once.

[BIGINNER]

I SHOT A DEER ONE DAY  THAT WAS BEING SPOTLIGHTED BEFORE SHOOTING LIGHT   

[MountainWalk]

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first elk.

[C-Money]

You could end up guilty until proven Innocent on this deal. 

[Heredoggydoggy]

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first elk.

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first deer.  I had to stop puking long enough to shoot him! 

[C-Money]

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first elk.

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first deer.  I had to stop puking long enough to shoot him! 

I always wait until the tags are full, and even then I dont tie one on the hard. Geeezzzz!

[boneaddict]

tags, you need tags?

[C-Money]

tags, you need tags?

If at hunting camp!    Last thing I want to do is make a headache even worst by taking a digger down a steep canyon cause I had a chemically induced case of vertigo.

[Heredoggydoggy]

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first elk.

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first deer.  I had to stop puking long enough to shoot him! 

I always wait until the tags are full, and even then I dont tie one on the hard. Geeezzzz!

That was back in 1964--where were you in 1964??   

[C-Money]

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first elk.

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first deer.  I had to stop puking long enough to shoot him! 

I always wait until the tags are full, and even then I dont tie one on the hard. Geeezzzz!

That was back in 1964--where were you in 1964??   

I was not of this world in 1964. Must have been quite a bit of fun on the eve of elk season 1964. Good times.

[Heredoggydoggy]

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first elk.

I was super drunk the night before I killed my first deer.  I had to stop puking long enough to shoot him! 

I always wait until the tags are full, and even then I dont tie one on the hard. Geeezzzz!

That was back in 1964--where were you in 1964??   

I was not of this world in 1964. Must have been quite a bit of fun on the eve of elk season 1964. Good times.

There weren't any Elk where I shot my first deer.  There weren't any coyotes--there are now.  There weren't any Ticks--there are now.  There weren't any Moose--there are now.  Very few Bears--lots of them now.  It was definately a simpler time. 

[Boss .300 winmag]

Have you had ballistics done on that piece of shot yet?  Who ever shot this should get a fine of at least $1000.00 like it says in the waterfowl regulations. 

Have you even called the police yet?   

I have a friend that is personal friends with a game warden so I'm going to be contacting him today and telling him all the info and give him the piece of shot if he wants to test it.

You can't be serious?

[NW-GSP]

Have you had ballistics done on that piece of shot yet?  Who ever shot this should get a fine of at least $1000.00 like it says in the waterfowl regulations. 

Have you even called the police yet?   

I have a friend that is personal friends with a game warden so I'm going to be contacting him today and telling him all the info and give him the piece of shot if he wants to test it.

You can't be serious?

Ya I am serious, it could have been someone in the same area I was hunting that shot it with lead, if not then no big deal. I guess I'm not one of those guys that thinks the game wardens are out there just trying to set people up to get busted.

[Stilly bay]

Have you had ballistics done on that piece of shot yet?  Who ever shot this should get a fine of at least $1000.00 like it says in the waterfowl regulations. 

Have you even called the police yet?   

I have a friend that is personal friends with a game warden so I'm going to be contacting him today and telling him all the info and give him the piece of shot if he wants to test it.

You can't be serious?

Ya I am serious, it could have been someone in the same area I was hunting that shot it with lead, if not then no big deal. I guess I'm not one of those guys that thinks the game wardens are out there just trying to set people up to get busted.

so what do you hope to accomplish besides making a game warden laugh?

Leads

[NW-GSP]

I there is someone using lead shot in the area I hunt then I hope they up the patrols they do in field.

[wrangler]

Have you had ballistics done on that piece of shot yet?  Who ever shot this should get a fine of at least $1000.00 like it says in the waterfowl regulations. 

Have you even called the police yet?   

baaahahaha! 

[Stilly bay]

that duck could have come from anywhere, the game wardens (who are understaffed to begin with) aren't going to drop every thing and up patrols in hopes of catching someone doing a minor offense based off of the finding of one pellet... that may or may not be lead.

[ghosthunter]

I don't understand how this thread keeps going.

[singleshot12]

I occasionally find lead shot in my duck or goose breasts. Just figure they got shot at in Canada or Alaska where I think lead is still legal?  Or also thought maybe they were just shot at by some angry farmer trying to scare them out of his field with his trap loads. So yeah call the po po

[duckkillerclyde]

I occasionally find lead shot in my duck or goose breasts. Just figure they got shot at in Canada or Alaska where I think lead is still legal?

MBTA or 1918 outlawed this.  Canada and AK cannot legally shoot lead shot while waterfowl hunting.     



So what became of this?   Did the warden send anyone to the clink?