After eight years of grousing, duck hunters are getting a reprieve from the steel-shot mandate. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has temporarily approved the use of bismuth shot as an alternative to ...

With the ongoing tariff uncertainty and scarcity of some materials, the duck load world is in a bit of turmoil. Sure, you can still grab a box of cheap steel loads anywhere you like. But for a lot of ...

In the long-gone days of lead shot, choosing chokes for waterfowling was simple: the fuller, the better. A few hunters picked Modified for over-decoy shooting, but more often than not, in those days ...

If bismuth and tungsten have been the recent trends in non-toxic pellet materials, steel and copper may be the pellets of the future. Some of that steel may be loaded with a bit of TSS, but we have to ...

Thanks to modern metallurgy, waterfowl hunters have almost as many projectile options as deer hunters. That wasn't always true. A nationwide ban on using lead pellets for waterfowl hunting went into ...