[Scrambler Bob]

Lead pellets are inert. They don’t break down.
so how, precisely, are they toxic, and to whom?
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I can imagine that a duck could suck some up off the bottom of a lake, and grind them up in its gizzard.

[SgtHooper]

Over the years, there has been much said about that, where waterfowl ingest lead pellets off the bottom while eating muck, etc., from ponds, shorelines, etc.