Don't know what it is with the anti-lead kick the last few years. Lead free bullets, now lead free fishing weights.....I can understand not using lead shot because the waterfowl ingest it, but I don't really think animals are going to be eating lead bullets that are in the hillside or splitshot weights at the bottom of the lake. I mean lead is an element and naturally comes from the earth. How can it be so bad to put it back into the earth?