Ducks dying from lead shot ingestion was waaaay exaggerated. There were "hotspots" in some areas of the country that received a lot of gunning that may have needed steel shot to alleviate the problem, but it was never the problem that Tom Roster, NWS, et al hyped it up to be. Sad story they spun, with plenty of anecdotal but unproven evidence.
JR

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