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OH! OH! OH!!! And as The Wife just pointed ought, that's assuming that eagles don't actually poop!! Bear in mind that actual lead solid are non digestible, I'm going to go ahead & make the assumption that the stupid eagle actually shat out a good 90% of the lead it ingested!! I would alter my guess to state that I'd bet it consumed less lead in it's life that is contained in 10 gallons of tap water.

Please let me be the first to call bull$hit on that. Bear in mind it's living along the largest concentration of wolves, badgers, bears, lions & corvids in the lower 48, how much carrion containing lead fragments must the thing have had to have eaten in it's life. A bird that is primarily a hunting raptor & not a scavenger, to boot. Over an average lifespan of 30 years (Google) that single bird must've eaten just about every single carcass shot within 30 miles of Yellowstone AND been unlucky enough to have found every trace of lead, from every bullet. I'm sorry, but the math simply doesn't work for me. Further studies have shown that actually consuming the average quantity of lead found in a recovered animal carcass, on a regular basis, has literally ZERO effect on (human) health. Think about it....the average hunting bullet out west (primarily big .30s & 7s) weighs 180gn, give or take. If a recovered bullet retains 50% of it's mass (low estimate) & 50% of shots are passthroughs (SUPER low estimate...) statistically speaking, the average uncovered mule deer, antelope or elk, weighing a (WAG) average of 300lb therefore contains 45gn of bullet. Call 5gn of that jacket & you've got 40gn of lead. The average critter is around 50% edible meat, innards & skin. Therefore the average pound of meat contains 0.0000380952gn of actual lead. The average golden eagle eats ½ to 1lb of meat per day (Google), split the difference & call that ¾lb, so 0.00002857140gn of lead per day. At an average lifespan of 10950 days, that's a total of 0.31285683gn of lead in it's entire life. That's 1.75 No.12 shot, to put it in reasonable terms. A hair under a third of a grain of lead, in it's entire life. I'm calling a hard "BOLLOCKS" on the whole deal.....

The amazing thing about stings like this is just how productive they are. Still. Today. In 2019.

I wasn't late to the party I just had to exercise a mountain of self restraint! You know me im all about snapping up a deal!

Right. I was late to the add and all gone. Didn't Need it anyway. lol

Got a chance to hold one just after they started shipping. I was at Sumner gun trying to harass our buddy Steelharp. Felt ok. Nothing that set it off from the PPQ, HKVP, or any other poly pistol I own or have owned. Seemed pretty well put together, finish was good, and cycling was average to good. Trigger didn't overly impress me though. Still prefer my PPQ and Canik triggers to anything else I've handled yet. My personal, totally unprofessional opinion is that it's a decent pistol, on the high end of what it is. All in all, for me...I'll keep my others. The APX just doesn't reach out and grab my attention.

Definitely disagree.

You do good work.

Capabilities sorely lacking in many current "tradesmen". Pride in your work seems to be a dying thing.

Those are sweet! I've only been brave enough to try it once (it was an already bubba'd mosin)

....persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed....

Its bad enough that such a historic landmark in burning. But the loss of knowledge and history in its libraries is considerably worse.

Wow! I just saw this on the news, unbelievable, and very sad.

Leucism (piebald) and Albinism are different. It is illegal to take albino deer but the book specifically says it's ok to take a white turkey. I presume that's because it would be very difficult to tell if the turkey has red eyes or not.

I like the floated handguard versions. They kinda remind me of the ppsh.

while we may feel loyalty, I've never seen an insurance company reciprocate.

Man that is some interesting pillow talk at your house. Maybe the tracking device contained lead that seeped into the eagle. Maybe in the batteries. Lmao....

This is just heartbreaking.