Some modern bullets more closely resemble intercontinental ballistic missiles with tiny plastic warheads. In Montana, bullet manufacturers use copper and lead, targeting markets shaped by politics, ...

Big game hunters notice bullet performance, and all-copper bullets are proving their mettle in the field and at the range. To be honest, hunters resisted non-lead bullets for so long because they ...

Though there is no evidence that lead bullet fragments are a threat to human or wildlife health at the population level, some hunters are choosing non-lead bullets to avoid any risk. "Given the choice ...

A rebate program offers to pay hunters for copper-based bullets in an attempt to conserve eagles. The Alaska Copper Ammo Challenge offers $40 rebates to hunters to incentivize giving copper bullets a ...

ZUMWALT PRAIRIE, Ore. — Aiming a rifle loaded with a copper bullet rather than the standard type made of lead, Chelsea Cassens fired at an elk from 70 yards away, hitting it squarely behind its ...

A little more than a year ago, Department of Natural Resources officials were shooting dead sheep with high-caliber lead bullets, studying to see whether the bullets fragmented upon impact, and how ...

The Copper Rose is a monolithic bullet with a high B.C. that produces dramatic wound channels. Tyler Freel I almost couldn’t believe what I was seeing as my knife split the inch-and-a-half-thick ...

At first glance, the hoopla over lead-cored bullets seems to be yet another back door attack on guns. However, there may be something to it. The wise hunter goes for a heart-lung shot to avoid ...

An effort to bring one of the world's largest birds back from the brink of extinction is expanding after northern Arizona and southern Utah found some success in getting deer hunters to use ammunition ...

The state of Indiana can’t tell Hoosiers not to use lead shot when they’re hunting, but it is asking them. Using lead bullets can threaten scavenger species such as bald eagles, according to the ...