Rob, I hunt grouse with an Elsie field 20ga C/F and consider it as elegant a gun as any on the rack---including a Specialty 12. I reload bismuth. I can't bring myself to use steel in any gun.

My thoughts on lead are simply this: I fight the wars as others but defer to the lead edict on waterfowl; it's not here yet on upland. I don't consider the cost of non-toxic prohibitive, considering my other interests.

It's kind of like being in love. I defer to my dear wife in most things because she defers to me. Otherwise, life cannot be all we want it to be: truly living and loving, alive and burning to the end.