I quit duck/goose hunting the first day we was required to use steel shot. I had duck hunted from about 1954 until THAT DAY. I was stationed at the Submarine Base in CT when the law became effective. My oldest son & I went opening day with our new steel shot. We were hitting ducks that lead 7 1/2 field loads would of taken down. We always drifted by canoe on a small river by our home there. All we ever used there were light field loads, as a long shot was 25 - 30 yards. Anyways the crappy steel shot was not bring down the birds. I made up my mind I wasn't going to wound them like that, and we both quit that day. I never hunted ducks again until I moved back home to Maine in 1997. I was setting traps in a bog that fall and ducks were all over me. I said thats it, I've got to do the duck thing. The next spring I bought a Chessy pup off a friend in TN and haven't stopped since. I am happy to report that steel shot has greatly improved since that first year it was required in the 70's.