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Show Waterfowl iron shot program outlined by Wildlife Services The Department of the Interior's In-terior's Fish and Wildlife Service Intends to move as rapidly as pohsilble toward a conversion from lead shot to Iron shot, or any other suitable suit-able nontoxic ammunition to eliminate lead poisoning as a waterfowl mortality factor. The use of Iron shot will be expanded to the degree permitted by available supplies sup-plies of ammunition for the 1973-74 hunting season. Mandatory Man-datory use of Iron shot throughout one flyway will be the aim of the program for the 1974-75 season. Unless tests turn up unexpected technological problems, the Service hopes to recommend regulations Imposing a nationwide na-tionwide ban on the use of lead shot for the 1975-76 waterfowl season. A cooperative study by the U S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice Ser-vice and the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Manufact-urers Institute, 1966-68, confirmed con-firmed earlier suggestions that soft Iron shot was approximately ap-proximately as effective as lead In killing waterfowl. Various technological and manufacturing problems Incurred In-curred at that time have been resolved by the ammunition industry. Iron shot ammunition ammuni-tion of Improved design was used in a pilot hunting program pro-gram last fall on seven federally fed-erally managed public hunt-lng hunt-lng areas and was found to be comparable to lead shot. Further tests on ballistics and performance are being conducted by manufacturers and are expected to lead to more improvements. |
