|
I think Bergie hit on it pretty well: How many deer or elk are ever shot in the guts?
The next obvious question has to do with the amount of lead available to an eagle: With jacketed bullets, and so much full penetration of game animals, whence cometh this lead? There ain't no magic, infusing the guts with lead dust or whatever.
Fergit deer hunters. Total BS.
Upland birds? How many guys gut their dove or quail right then and there when they pick it up? And most of those birds only have two or three pellets hit, anyway. Duh?
If I was a guessin' fella, I'd say that an already-lead-infested eagle got hurt and brought in at a time when more people were out in the boonies than usual. Or, during a migration pattern when the eagles might tend to be closer to where people are. The rest of the year, they just die.
FWIW, Art
|