Lead.

As a Cowboy shooter, I use lead ammo, even when I use my 1911 for Wild Bunch matches.  I’ve been wondering about all the lead that gets dished out every match.  And with the State of Washington looking into banning lead ammo across the board, I figured I should read up on this, and get the scoop, since I see this a big battle front soon.

I came across this article via some fellow Cowboy shooters, but it’s from 2004, and I haven’t been able to locate any newer studies.  I anybody has some article links, let me know.

“we learned that it is absorbed in the top few inches of soil and does not migrate beyond that,” Rimstidt said. “Lead is not very mobile. It does not wash away in surface or ground water.”