I was recently invited to participate in Boone and Crockett Club's Blogger Appreciation Program and received a chance to do a giveaway for one (1) complimentary Associate Membership to the Boone and Crockett Club.
About the Boone and Crockett Club:
Founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1887, the Boone and Crockett Club promotes guardianship and visionary management of big game and associated wildlife in North America. The Club maintains the highest standards of fair-chase sportsmanship and habitat stewardship. Member accomplishments include enlarging and protecting Yellowstone and establishing Glacier and Denali national parks, founding the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service and National Wildlife Refuge System, fostering the Pittman-Robertson and Lacey Acts, creating the Federal Duck Stamp program, and developing the cornerstones of modern game laws. The Boone and Crockett Club is headquartered in Missoula, Montana.
About Fair Chase Magazine and your Associate Membership:
Fair Chase is the official publication of the Boone and Crockett Club. The magazine is loaded with information you won't find anywhere else such as Field Trophy Photos of recent entries into the Club's records program, as well as listings of the most recently accepted trophies. You will also find quality features by well known outdoor journalists on North American Big Game, trophy measuring, hunting tips and conservation issues that affect your hunting and more. As an Associate you will receive Fair Chase Magazine on a quarterly basis. You will also have exclusive access to the Associates Community of the Club’s web site. This includes searchable field photos, archive of past Fair Chase articles, and your own personal trophy scoring database. In addition, you will receive a discount on select Boone and Crockett Club merchandise and books. You will also receive a wallet I.D. card and a Boone and Crockett Club window decal.
Register to Win:
There will be two possible entries for this giveaway, one entry and two bonus entries. This giveaway will run from Oct. 21, 2011 to Nov. 6, 2011 at 11:59 PM. The winner will be picked at random with http://www.random.org/. The winner will be announced on Nov. 7 2011.
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They have asked that everyone take a look at the video and information below on lead bullets and the the current Acts that are trying to eliminate them.
Lead Bullets
Anti-hunting and anti-fishing interests are currently litigating against the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to force the EPA to expand its Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) authority in order to regulate traditional ammunition and recreational fishing tackle.
When the Act was established in 1976 Congress explicitly excluded from regulation any article subject to excise taxes -- including pistols, revolvers, firearms, shells and cartridges.
The EPA has already once declined a petition that asked the agency to prohibit the manufacture, processing, and distribution in commerce of lead for shot, bullets, and fishing sinkers because it did not have the authority to do so under the TSCA.
Anti-hunting and anti-fishing interests assert the EPA does have the authority and that a lead ban is necessary to address the significant impacts to wildlife populations that are resulting from traditional tackle and ammunition.
The assertions made by the petitioning groups lack credible scientific foundation, especially when seeking a blanket ban on all lead use. Outside of the California condor, where every death is significant, there is no evidence of a lead crisis at the population level – an entire group of one species living in a specific area.
The biggest threat of lead in wildlife is with birds that have gizzards, which hold on to and grind up food, rather than pass it quickly through their systems.
Proponents of the ban cite the impacts on individual raptors, such as Bald Eagles even though raptor populations are increasing across North America and the Bald Eagle was removed from the Endangered Species list as recently as 2007.
If a complete ban on lead in ammunition where achieved it would have a dramatic negative impact, because of the increased cost of alternative metals, on the cost of ammunition, and therefore participation in hunting and recreational shooting, which in turn is the engine that drives most of the funding for conservation and wildlife management through the excise taxes paid on the purchases of ammunition.
Sportsmen groups have rallied to push forward the introduction of the Hunting, Fishing and Recreational Shooting Protection Act (S.838 & H.R. 1558), which will amend TSCA in a manner that serves to protect and enhance our hunting, recreational shooting and recreational fishing heritage while concurrently facilitating the important benefits that the hunting, shooting and recreational fishing industries contribute to the betterment of our nation’s economy and treasured natural resources.
The Act is now being discussed and considered in committees. To learn more: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s112-838
I live in a Lead free area because of the California Condor all 25 of them. It is a little crazy to me that we can't sling lead out here and further more I have yest been able to find any concrete evidence that a bird has died from ingesting lead. A little crazy to me, but hey thats what I get for living in Kalifornistan.
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ReplyDeleteWhen a lead bullet passes through an animal it leaves small pieces of lead. When they eat gut piles they ingest lead. It only takes a piece of lead the size of a grain of sand to kill them. I have watched video of a bald eagle dieing because a hunter shot a deer so it could eat over the winter. They get covered with green puke and poop. It is a disgusting thing to watch.
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