Burrhead,

The move to non-toxic shot was in response to spring die offs that resulted from waterfowl ingesting the lead shot.

Considering that shortly after that rule was put into effect the population of waterfowl began to increase again is not a coincidence.

Lead does come out of the ground but it doesn't come out in edible size pellets and is toxic when ingested.

I personally don't think they will make the move to nontoxic single bullets but if they did and I hunted in an area that required it, I would buy a box of nontoxic single bullets.

I am curious what target ranges that you know of that recycle wad cups?

The shell manufacturer that I spoke to about that said that the process of cleaning and recycling makes the process too expensive to be profitable.

I wonder if they would still do that if they knew that this new product was available.