Thread: has 10 years steel use been benificial for waterfowl numbers

Originally Posted by prattpoint

few hunters using semis are getting more because they have more shots, I don't think steel skybusters are even penetrating the skin I have killed ducks with steel from pellets hitting the head and neck and then noticed other pellets falling out of the feathers, no person in there right mind would choose steel over lead. There is not more ducks in my area and i have cut open over 100 gizards and still haven't found a single pellet, If farmers have been poisoning canadas and they have then how have they controlled poisoning other birds , They havent

I definitely get more ducks because I have a semi, the best I have done is 4 ducks from 5 shots when jumping a pond. I often get ducks with the 3rd or 4th shot.