lead and copper prices slowly coming down

[TexasJeff]

I am thinking that if the anti crowd gets their way and they make lead illegal to use in anything including bullets. The price of lead will fall, but we won't be able to use it. I hope that does not happen. Ron

I've never given a damn what the anti-Constitution crowd thinks, says, does or even passes into law.

Where you live, where I live . . . . plenty of places to go and shoot--and live--where the anti's wouldn't dare tread. Those pansy-asses can't get too far away from the interstates and Starbucks.

Jeff

[Tom Herman]

Maybe it's time to drain the old mine at Bonne Terre MO and start digging some fresh stuff out of the ground!

We need to be drilling for oil wherever it is found, onshore and off...

Happy Shootin'! -Tom

[Huntducks]

lead @ .88 lb on it way to .65

[dwtim]

Wow. They were buying it at 1.05/lb a few weeks ago. Copper dropped another twenty cents per pound, too. Look at zinc: 1.20 to 0.89 in four months.

So we have the theory of Index Speculator distortions of the future markets... What's causing this drop? The value of the dollar is still dropping.

...you guys dumping mass quantities of wheel weights on the market to lower demand?

[idahoron]

I saw in the newspaper that some food pantries are going to stop taking deer and elk meat donated by hunters. They say the level of lead is too high. They are saying we can't give starving people wild game because there is an extremely small chance they might find a trace of lead in the meat. What is worse starving to death or a slim chance of having lead?
There was a meeting here in Idaho about two weeks ago. Some save the hawk group wants all lead outlawed because hawks might eat a fragment of a bullet. I hate to say it but I am scared of these no lead groups. Ron

[idahoron]

Here is a piece out of a local paper that I was talking about. Ron

By JOHN MILLER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BOISE, Idaho -- The potential risk of lead poisoning from high-velocity bullets, whether to carrion-eating condors in the Grand Canyon or to food bank patrons in the Midwest, is the subject of a scientific conference next week.

The issue has been heightened since North Dakota and Minnesota officials instructed food bank operators to clear their shelves of venison donated by hunters this year.

The move raised complaints from Safari Club International of Somerset, N.J., whose members gave about 316,000 pounds of venison to the needy last year under the group's Sportsmen Against Hunger program, and Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry of Williamsport, Md., which donates more than 282,000 pounds of venison in 27 states annually.

The four-day gathering that begins Monday at Boise State University includes more than 50 presentations on issues ranging from lead poisoning among subsistence hunting Inuits in Alaska and Russia, lead levels in ravens in southern Yellowstone National Park, lead found in swans in Western Washington state and the politics of nontoxic ammunition.

"You're collecting a huge weight of evidence to infer or perhaps even prove there's a serious health risk, certainly to wildlife, but perhaps even to humans," said Rick Watson, vice president of The Peregrine Fund in Boise, a raptor recovery center that is sponsoring the conference.

"That should promote if not actual remediation of the problem, then further research on where there are gaps in that knowledge," Watson said Friday.

Lead poisoning has been linked to learning disabilities, behavioral problems and, at very high levels, seizures, coma, and death.

Watson said his group realized there might be a connection between lead poisoning, bullets, venison and humans after 1996, the year it began reintroducing rare California condors in northern Arizona. As many as 60 now soar over the Grand Canyon and southern Utah, but researchers and the Arizona Game and Fish Department found the scavengers were ailing from lead poisoning after eating hunter-killed deer and leftover gut piles.

In 2006, five condors died of lead poisoning and 90 percent of the rest had signs of exposure.

To learn more, Peregrine Fund researchers killed two deer with high-velocity lead ammunition and found that the bullets fragmented on impact, leaving the animals' flesh riddled with hundreds of microscopic lead particles.

"In the process of doing that study, we didn't want to waste the deer meat we had shot, so we had it processed," Watson said. "We thought, 'For interest's sake, let's take a look at some of these package to see if there was any lead' - and there was."

Skeptical, Dr. William Cornatzer of Bismarck, N.D., a physician, hunter and Peregrine Fund board member, used a CT scan to examine about 100 packets of venison from local food giveaway programs and found 60 percent had multiple lead fragments.

"There isn't much to argue," Cornatzer said. "It shows there is this toxic metal in our ground venison that we hunters have been eating for the last 50 years."

While no cases of lead poisoning from venison had been reported, his research helped lead to the warning to food banks in North Dakota in March. Days later, Minnesota followed suit after separate tests in that state.

Safari Club officials have contend there is no scientific basis for abandoning thousands of pounds of meat that otherwise would go to poor families at a time of rapidly escalating food costs.

Gene Rurka, chairman of the group's humanitarian efforts, said dumping venison on the basis of a few anecdotal studies was premature.

"I just can't imagine there's that kind of lead intrusion in the meat," Rurka said. "If it's a health issue, certainly, it's a concern, but to go out and say there's one guy who took a sampling of meat, and to use that across the entire program, it is totally unfair."

Watson said such skepticism is a key reason for the conference.

Among other reports, his group plans to release preliminary findings of a continuing study of packaged venison from 30 deer killed by researchers with high-velocity ammo and processed by 30 butchers in Wyoming. Watson, one of the authors, said the findings so far mirror the conclusions in North Dakota and Minnesota.

"We've effectively demonstrated that lead does get into venison, both hamburger and steaks," he said. "It's at levels sufficently high enough to be a concern to people who get those packets. We don't know what risk, but we know they are at some risk."

[Beaverhunter2]

As the doctor said, "...there is this toxic metal in our ground venison that we hunters have been eating for the last 50 years."

This must be why all successful hunters die young of lead poisoning. I guess it's a good thing I can't shoot very well! I'm almost 44 and I'd only have a few years left!

(These people really can't be that stupid, can they?!?!?)

John

[725]

It's just more anti-gun, anti-freedom do gooders at work. Today it's the words of lead in the food, CO-2 poisions from cow farts, or some equally moronic BS. They use the word of the day crisis to scare the non-thinkers into rolling over like the sheep they are.

[floodgate]

Reminds me of a scare article I ran across many years ago, pointing out that common salt is made by mixing a chemical that bursts into flame on contact with water (sodium) with the major poison gas used in World War I (chlorine). Organic (sea) salt is OK, since it contains no chemicals.

flubgate

[Leadforbrains]

I agree with 725. Just more anti-gun, anti-hunting metrosexual B.S. If they can't neuter us and turn us into pansies outright they will continue to try to back door us in other ways.

[Leadforbrains]

The gooberment can't even win the war on drugs. How in the hell these weenies can even think they can try stopping me from rolling a deer over with a lead Boolit is beyond me.

[idahoron]

When this first turned up in Kalifornika, I thought never in Idaho. One of these meetings was at our local Fish and Game office.
I am setting on about 600 pounds of lead. If they want it, I will give it to them. I will send it air mail about 385 to 475 grains at a time. Ron

[Ed K]

Spot lead is trying to crack the $0.70 threshold - looking good!

[sniper]

[QUOTE=idahoron;347056]Lead poisoning has been linked to learning disabilities, behavioral problems and, at very high levels, seizures, coma, and death.QUOTE]

Yes, and small amounts of human saliva, swallowed over along period of time, will result in cancer!

As always, there is someone ready to shout "The Sky is Falling!" And the enviro wackos will chant along in unison, just as long as it suits their agenda.

No doubt lead is a material that doesn't do any good to the human body, especially when introduced above 800 fps.

My dad was a painter. When I was little, I used to play with his red and whte lead, and later, when we went fishing, we all crimped split shot sinkers onto our line by biting them.

In high school chemistry, we used to roll Mercury around in our bare hands, AND, we drank out of the garden hose! As a teen ager, I strained what seemed like TONS of chicken**** through a hardware coth screen!

I do have a slight learning disability, no doubt caused by my earlier exposure to all those toxic and hazardous substances. (?)

But, in the 15 years before I retired, I successfully administered about $ 1 Million in public funds annually. Just imagine what I might have been able to do, if I had all of my faculties intact!

Would I have been somehow faster, smarter, better, if I had not been exposed to those nasty elements? Maybe; but then again.... who knows?

All is O.K., though. My shrink says I can reload Cast Bolits... if I wash my hands well before I suck my thumb.

[The Dove]

LFB,

Metrosexual B.S. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's good!!! and I gotta use it.
Thanks

The Dove

[JIMinPHX]

Once the Olympics are over, I think that lead & other metals are going to jump back up again. China shut down a lot of their industry for a few months to let the smoke clear so that they can put on a good show while the world is watching. After that, they'll be back to full tilt again sucking up every resource in sight. If you see lead at a good price, grab it now while you can.

[Bad Water Bill]

I wonder how they can explain how my grandfather lived to the age of 93. All of his life he lived on the game he shot starting with a round ball coal burner. Around 1903-5 he bought a Win 94 rifle and used it till 1967 when he gave it to my dad. He drove from above Placerville Ca to Chicago in a VW Beetle . Not bad for an 88 year old who had been lead pisonin himself all those years. Oh yes he was also still carrying 9 lead slugs from his time with the Texas rangers almost 50 years before his untimely death. I wonder if he had stayed away from that NASTY lead if he would still be around telling stories and creating babys.

[DLCTEX]

The antis have no qualms about using false "science" to further their wacko views because when they are proven flase or even fraudulent the leftwing media will not, or will under report( if forced to report at all), that they were wrong. Then they will continue to use the "science" as fact as if it were never debunked. The leftist media has and will continue to be America's greatest enemy, IMHO. DALE

[Firebird]

Saw a report on TV last week that China has bought a mountain in Chile and will be developing a copper mine that basically will eventually remove the mountain to China for processing. Cost them 3 billion, the expected copper at todays prices will be worth over 100 billion when they finish mining the mountain. Made me wonder how long and for how much western mining companies had been trying to get access to that mountain of copper ore.
At least this should reduce the amount of copper that China is buying on the open market so the price should fall.