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<blockquote data-quote="358norma" data-source="post: 4166014" data-attributes="member: 10178">Keep the 7&#039;s for teal or finisher shots on the water. Aim under the duck on the water, this is to get the shot to ricochet off the water surface and bounce into the ducks head. That sluch shot gets em&#039; stopped. Steel #7&#039;s aren&#039;t worth a fiddle knocking big ducks down. I think your on the right track looking for some #2&#039;s or #4&#039;s for primary shooting. The other side is to look for some bismuth, but it&#039;s pricey!I actually did a research paper a bunch of years ago when I was in school about steel shot (because I hated it!!). What I found out was we kill approximately the same number of waterfowl every year with both steel and lead shot. Lead shot kills some by lead poisoning, and we cripple/kill the same amount with steel. The end result was the birds of prey feeding on the lead poisoned ducks would transfer to the birds of prey and either kill them, worst case, or weaken the shell of their eggs and the eggs would crush in the nest, slowing reproduction. End result was fewer birds of prey, that&#039;s what makes us shoot steel.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="358norma, post: 4166014, member: 10178"] Keep the 7's for teal or finisher shots on the water. Aim under the duck on the water, this is to get the shot to ricochet off the water surface and bounce into the ducks head. That sluch shot gets em' stopped. Steel #7's aren't worth a fiddle knocking big ducks down. I think your on the right track looking for some #2's or #4's for primary shooting. The other side is to look for some bismuth, but it's pricey! I actually did a research paper a bunch of years ago when I was in school about steel shot (because I hated it!!). What I found out was we kill approximately the same number of waterfowl every year with both steel and lead shot. Lead shot kills some by lead poisoning, and we cripple/kill the same amount with steel. The end result was the birds of prey feeding on the lead poisoned ducks would transfer to the birds of prey and either kill them, worst case, or weaken the shell of their eggs and the eggs would crush in the nest, slowing reproduction. End result was fewer birds of prey, that's what makes us shoot steel. [/QUOTE]

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