What if Cheney was shooting lead?

[MadRat]

So what kind of penalty is it for hunting with non-lead shot? Some people continue to claim only steel shot is allowed but I'm pretty sure the requirement is not steel, just of non-toxic metals. I know I have alot of steel and copper-coated steel shot for hunting waterfoul in my gun cabinet, but it was because I dropped all use of lead about ten years ago. Anyone familiar with the exact law and penalty?

It would be quite ironic if it was lead that Cheney was using when he shot his lawyer buddy and that the law was a felony. Would explain the panic in the VP's office.


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[1EZduzit]

Quail isn't a waterfowl so I think lead would be legal to use. That's the way it is where I live, but I don't know for sure about Texas.

 

[MadRat]

I was under the impression that Texas had banned lead for all hunting. Its banned on all federal land. Its probably banned on most public state-owned land anymore the way the movement swept across the landscape to rid ourselves of lead shot. I don't notice a difference, I'm either dead on where steel works just the same, or dead off where lead would of been no help anyhow. Politically correct types like Cheney should be using non-toxic shot regardless of the laws.

 

[arsbanned]

They closed the investigation! He's not guilty!

heh. In other words, laws do not apply to Dick.

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: MadRat
I was under the impression that Texas had banned lead for all hunting. Its banned on all federal land. Its probably banned on most public state-owned land anymore the way the movement swept across the landscape to rid ourselves of lead shot. I don't notice a difference, I'm either dead on where steel works just the same, or dead off where lead would of been no help anyhow. Politically correct types like Cheney should be using non-toxic shot regardless of the laws.

I shoot steel the first week of pheasant hunting but switch to lead later in the season when the birds get wilder, bigger, and start putting their winter feathers on. Steel just doesn't hold it's energy as well for a longer shot. I looked as some alternate types of shot, but the cost was totally outrageous.

 

[Al Neri]

Give it up already. The most a person could be charged with in that situation would be a misdemeanor. If all of these sour pussed liberals or quasi conservatives who muckrake this this adminstration would just take all of their energy wasting time on useless nonsense (in retrospect with all of the problems in the world)and focus on things that would benefit the world... we'd be about 20 steps ahead of where we are.


and as for 1EZduzit, I've seen your signature a lot and I laugh every time I see it. Things change my friend. OBL was the number one priority right after 9/11, then it was realized that it was a lot more than OBL that needed to be addressed. What's diffucult to see that, or is it just narrow minded liberalism?