rbernie
Contributing Member
Dunno if anyone saw this earlier this spring, but it's worth a read:
https://www.outdoorlife.com/guns/steel-shot-lethality-testing/Is Steel Shot Effective? Here’s What the Data Say After Decades of Testing
The author has spent the last 40 years studying and researching pellet lethality. Here's what he's learned
...The research involved taking X-rays and necropsies of some 26,000 North American ducks, geese, pheasants, doves, quail, and turkeys to study pellet penetration and striking phenomena. This resulted in the world’s largest lethality data base on lead and nontoxic shotshell ammunition performance on wild game birds. It also involved the destructive testing of dozens of shotguns and the pattern testing of 25,000-plus rounds of shotgun ammunition.