>>Subject: 'Flyer' for the lead ammo Fish and Game Commision hearing
>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:02:12 -0800

>Subject: 'Flyer' for the lead ammo Fish and Game Commision hearing
>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:02:12 -0800
>Paul Payne asked me to send this to the list last week after the Sac
ISE
>show. I got sick last week, hopefully this still is useful. Thanks
to
>Golden Gate folks for the .pdf conversion, file attached.
>
>
>Remember, it's not that the anti - hunter coalition is likely to get
>everything they are proposing, but what portion of your firearms
>collection would you like to not be able to use lead in, and over
what
>portion of the state?
>
>It's not complicated, just ask the CA Fish and Game Commision to say
NO!
>
>Remember, they've been taking our rights from us in small
increments, as
>thier sucessful technique, all along.
>
>Can we afford to risk any small gains by this newly active group?
>
>Time to be talking to California's hunters.
>
>Please post and cross post
>
>Mike Schrader
>
>Text only follows:
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> The Center for Biological Diversity's Petition to ask for a
statewide
>ban on lead ammunition is officially scheduled for the Fish and Game
>Commission's February 3 meeting in San Diego, Agenda Item # 17.
>
>Please contact the commission and voice your objection to this
>unscientific, premature, and unnecessary attack on hunters and
shooting
>sports participants, across the state, on this ridiculous claim that
>lead ammunition is the cause of the decline of the California Condor.
>Even the organization re-releasing the Condors into the wild
disagrees
>with the claims in the petition by these extremist organizations.
>
> Location of the 2-day hearing is:
>
> Hubbs Sea World Research Institute
> Shedd Auditorium
> 2595 Ingraham St.
> San Diego, CA
>
> Start time of the first day of the hearing is:
> Thursday, February 3, at 10:00 AM.
> Being a late agenda item, it might conceivably
> be held on either Thursday or Friday, the 4th.
>
>Parties likely to be adversely affected include:
> Law Enforcement- shooting range issues
> Upland bird hunters- lead shot
> Skeet and clays aficionados- shooting range issues
> Single Action/Cowboy Action fans-shooting range
issues
> Big game hunters- "gut pile" and lost game issues
> Varmint hunters-shooting range and
>left-behind/lost varmint issues
> Varmint control personnel/Ranchers/Farmers- left
>behind/lost varmint issues
> Muzzle-loader/Black powder hunters- gut pile
>and lost game issues.
>
>
>RIGHT NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO CONTACT THE COMMISSION
>
>Just ask them to say NO to this unreasonable petition, Agenda Item #
17
>
>Letters and comments should be sent before or by the 3rd to:
>
>Robert Treanor, Executive Director
>California Fish & Game Commission
>1416 Ninth St.
>Sacramento, CA 94244-2090
>
>ESPECIALLY MAKE THE FOLLOWING:
>
>Phone Calls to: (916) 653- 4899
>Faxes to: (916) 653-5040
>E-Mails to: rtreanor@...
> Or fgc@...