Some hunters quit waterfowling when steel shot replaced lead thirty years ago. Early steel loads weren’t as good as those we have now. They were inconsistent in both velocity and ignition. Water got ...

Thanks to modern metallurgy, waterfowl hunters have almost as many projectile options as deer hunters. That wasn't always true. A nationwide ban on using lead pellets for waterfowl hunting went into ...

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