Joel: Thanks for the information, and clarification, I think. You are saying that we now have to deal with both an ITX, AND an ITM Non-toxic Shot????? And know the difference?
As to anyone offering their shot only in loaded cartridges and NOT as a component, I consider them nothing more than Used Car Salesmen, who want you to buy this car " 'cause she's a beaut!, ain't she?" without letting you look under the hood. There used to be integrity in the Gun Industry, but we seem to be letting the crooks and snake oil salesmen get into it. I REFUSE TO BUY THOSE PRODUCTS!
Personally, I am seeing thousands of Canada Geese living year round here in Illinois, and every suburban subdivision with a " Lake" or catch basin is overloaded with Geese, and its getting worse.
It always begins with the Yuppies buying " Lakefront" property in droves, because " Aren't those birds Pretty?"
Then(The best part) come all the complaints by these URBAN non-hunters about the amount of goose "poop" and the stench driving them away from their backyard BBQs. They can't let their children play near the water, because the geese attack the kids, and even them. They can't mow the lawns for all the feathers and smelly goose Poop they have to step on, or clean up first, and they certainly didn't expect to have to clean up after the geese!--- well, you get the idea.
I like the idea that when you restrict hunting, you end up having a serious pest- and potential health problems-- that affect the very people who oppose hunting, and won't permit it. It assures me that there is a NATURAL Order to life.
We had a few turkeys, for instance, that decided to live in a neighborhood of yuppies here in Urbana, Il., last year. They attacked joggers and bikers( or as we auto drivers like to call them, 50 pointers, and 100 pointers!)
The Yuppies demanded that the Mayor and the City Council DO SOMETHING about them! The animal control department eventually netted the birds but not before a few more joggers were chased, and one was pecked( HEADLINES in YUPPIEDUM!) And, there have long be complaints here about coyote grabbing "Fifi" in her back yard. I can't wait until we have cougars in abundance again here in Illinois, taking out joggers as they have done in California already! It might at least get them off country roads in the early dawn, and back in their cities.
Once these animals get on that " Protected or Endangered Species" list( Thank you, yuppies), its next to impossible to get an animal off.
So, bring them on. When the Yuppies can't go outside because they don't feel safe to mow their own lawns, or jog, or bicycle, or walk at night, and the police FINALLY are forced to tell them that they just can't protect them, maybe all this nonsense will begin to turn around. If Not, Cougars, and bears, and wolves may just find a new source for meals, and the crows, vultures, hawks, and other scavengers of all kinds will pick at the bones.
Aren't those birds pretty?? Oh, LOOK! There's a pretty kitty cat- my, isn't that a BIG one!
I apologize for my diatribe, but all this NON-toxic shot nonsense began with a LIE, when someone got ahold of Glen Sanderson's draft of his research for his Graduate Degree here at the Univ. of Illinois. They used raw data that proved later to be wrongly calculated, but by then, the Anti-freedom, anti-hunting Congressman had seized on the idea that Lead is killing more waterfowl through ingestion than by INSERTION, so they banned lead shot.
Glen Fought for years to get the correct information out- there is NO empirical evidence that ingesting lead shot causes increases in mortality, based on his findings. But, by then, science had become " Politics", and truth no longer matters in Politics.
Does it?
We have an entire Federal Department devoted to currupting science for political purposes- the EPA.
