Bullet manufacturers are improving copper bullet options to use over traditional lead bullets.

The copper bullets expanded and retained 100 percent of their weight. The only pieces that came off were small, essentially weightless bits of the plastic tips on the copper bullets.

Most deer hunters have not switched to non-toxic copper bullets despite studies indicating that potentially toxic lead fragments disperse up to 18 inches from the wound channel in firearms-killed ...

In Montana, bullet manufacturers use copper and lead, targeting markets shaped by politics, technology and tradition.

Copper bullets tend to fan out and stay in one piece compared to lead bullets which fragment throughout the body, making them more humane.

Twenty-five percent are suffering from lead poisoning, mostly from hunters' bullet fragments in deer carcasses, she said. "That could so easily be prevented if people used copper bullets," Gibson ...

More and more hunters are making the transition to copper bullets amid mounting evidence that lead bullets are poisoning the wildlife that feed on carcasses and polluting the game meat that many ...

JACKSON -- Scientists with Craighead Beringia South say hunters who chose copper over lead bullets while hunting in the Jackson region helped to reduce blood lead levels in local ravens.

A lead bullet with a copper jacket (left) stands next to two copper bullets. Some hunters, including Bob Hoffmann of Moscow, Idaho, have started using copper bullets. Steve Hanks/Lewiston Tribune ...

They requested a metallic, lead-free bullet option, which we had access to through one of our key vendors who also supplies the U.S. military with solid copper projectiles.” ...

If hunters will simply switch from lead-based bullets and shot to the readily available “non-toxic” shot, including the ballistically superior all-copper rifle bullets, the lead poisoning of ...

“Her bullet did the trick just fine,” Hughes, 63, conceded, adding later that he also planned to switch from lead to copper bullets, a transition more and more hunters are making amid mounting ...