No... it's only when hunting. They don't want some other creature feasting on the critter you didn't recover and possibly ingesting the lead. Or at least.. that's the BS line they've been feeding us all on this. If it were true... the forests no doubt would have been decimated in the 200 some odd years people have been shooting lead all up and down this coast.
With all the lead shot I've eaten, I'd be dead by their science. Lol