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Message: <blockquote data-quote="snow1" data-source="post: 331631" data-attributes="member: 7725">We had this regulation eye in the begining of non toxic ammo (steel shot) back in the mid 80's,feds argued waterfowl were still picking up lead pellets in ag fields once crops were down,like chickens waterfowl were picking up shinny lead pellets,dying of lead posining.We battled this call from day one,infact I had a friend back then that was a veterinarian in a small western minnesota town,he also owned a sport shop,this town was near one of our best/largest waterfowl refuges in the midwest for the central flyway,my friend was a goose killing machine,pissed about force feeding us steel shot,my friend had a big goose contest at his sport shop so he could collect the gizzards to check for injested lead shot,he found 5 lead pellerts outof 500 gizzards,according to the feds that was 5 to many as birds of prey,mostly eagles were dying by the dozens feeding on these infected birds,divers were still picking up lead pellets on slogh/river bottoms from years past.But gotta agree today our steel shot ammo is much better than the beginng years,other than lacking lethal range these shotshells pattern alot better,and more affordable these days,good on you guyz that get the quality shots with feet down,guessing 2.75 steel ammo does the job just fine.</blockquote>