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At least they are asking instead of telling! Story Discussion Gazette News Service JACKSON, Wyo. - Grand Teton National Park and the National Elk Refuge are encouraging hunters to voluntarily use non-lead ammunition during the upcoming elk and bison seasons. The park and refuge issued a joint release Thursday saying lead is an environmental toxin that can poison animals that eat carcasses shot with lead bullets. Officials say studies have found that lead levels increase in ravens and eagles in Jackson Hole during the fall hunting season. Park officials also say lead bullet fragments have been found in packaged game meat. Officials stress that lead bullets are still allowed. The parks are asking hunters who use non-lead bullets to note it on their hunting permits so officials can measure participation. | ||
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kudu56: At least they are asking instead of telling! Telling you will be there Shortly. | |||
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My guess is that they are prepping people by asking, only so they can tell them in the future. I'll give it a year or two and I bet it's law. | |||
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They'e doing the same thing in the Arizona Strip and Kaibab national forests. Use is still voluntary and Arizona will either give you a box of bullets or two boxes of ammo free to make it easy to comply. That finally got me to try those Barnes TSX bullets last year. can't say as to how they worked on game but they are accurate. I only saw one deer I felt was worth shooting and some other yahoo spooked before I could get off a shot.  Paul B. | |||
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Yep I think it is safe to bet it will become law in the not so distant future. | |||
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My money's with you guys. Always a fore-runner to BS. Just like waterfowl hunters going to steel. Now for only $3-$5 per shell, you can shoot non toxic shells. Wonder what the copper bullets will go to? They're already swelling to $45-$300 per box of 20 cartridges. I think they hope we'll quit hunting due to it being so costly. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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I didn't think you could hunt in Grand Teton National Park or the National Elk Refuge. | |||
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