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.